How can I add code to my site headers?

Hi Dan,

Thanks for using BoldGrid Crio! That’s a great question, you’re right that WordPress doesn’t have a super easy way to insert tracking codes into the header or footer of your site.

What code snippet plugins have you tried? There are lots of different solutions possible, we recommend Header Footer Code Manager. You could also try a MailChimp specific plugin like MC4WP.

Please let us know more details so we can further assist.

Thanks,
Nicole

Hi Dan-

Thanks for the update, sorry to hear that you’re still having trouble using those plugins.

While you can modify Crio’s files directly, I strongly don’t recommend this tactic because any customizations you make will be overwritten whenever you update the Crio Theme.

Instead, I suspect that something else might have caused the problems while you were using Header Footer Code Manager of MC4WP. The official MailChimp plugin, particularly, should be able to handle everything for you, and Header/Footer Code is a fairly simple plugin that is normally quite reliable.

Keep in mind that while lots of instructions for code like this use the verbiage, “right before the closing head tag,” as long as the code is present anywhere in the head it will work correctly.

Glancing at your site, I did notice that you’re using Page Caching from W3 Total Cache, which means that the Head of your site will be stored in cache, so do make sure that you’re clearing your page cache whenever you make updates to your header code, that could certainly explain why you don’t see the changes right away.