WP Manifestindependent plugin directory
manifest / utilities / cv-header-footer-scripts

CV Simple Header Footer Scripts

Lightweight, secure WordPress plugin to inject Header, Body, and Footer scripts (GA4, GTM, Meta Pixel, custom CSS/JS) — theme & builder agnostic, zero database bloat, built on the WordPress Settings API.

by CV Infotech · github.com/cvinfotech/cv-header-footer-scripts · website

★ 0stars
0forks

Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/cvinfotech/cv-header-footer-scripts/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Readme

CV Simple Header Footer Scripts

A lightweight, secure, theme & builder agnostic way to inject Header, Body, and Footer scripts into WordPress — no theme editing required.

Overview

CV Simple Header Footer Scripts gives WordPress admins three clean fields — Header, Body, and Footer — and injects whatever is pasted into them at exactly the right point in the page, using WordPress's own wp_head, wp_body_open, and wp_footer hooks.

No theme file edits. No child theme required. No plugin-specific shortcodes to remember. It works the same way on every properly-coded WordPress theme and page builder.

CV Simple Header Footer Scripts settings screen under Settings > CV Header Footer, showing the Header, Body, and Footer code fields
Settings > CV Header Footer — the plugin's admin screen, with CodeMirror-highlighted code fields.

Why This Plugin
🧩 Theme & builder agnostic Built purely on core WordPress hooks — works identically with Elementor, Divi, Astra, Oxygen, Bricks, and Gutenberg/block themes.
🪶 Ultra lightweight One admin screen, one database row, zero front-end assets beyond the code you add yourself.
🔐 Security-first Settings API only, verified nonces, manage_options capability checks, and a restrictive custom wp_kses() allow-list.
🗄️ Zero database bloat All three fields are stored in a single serialized wp_options row — one query, not three.
🧑‍💻 Developer-friendly Strict OOP, fully PHPDoc'd, WPCS-compliant, linted in CI on every push.
🧹 Clean uninstall Deleting the plugin removes its one option — nothing left behind in your database.

Features

  • Three dedicated fields: Header (</head>), Body (wp_body_open), Footer (</body>)
  • Syntax-highlighted code editor (WordPress core's bundled CodeMirror — no extra JS libraries shipped)
  • One-click Settings link on the Plugins list screen
  • Works out of the box with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Search Console verification tags, custom CSS/JS, chat widgets, and more
  • Single consolidated database option for maximum performance
  • Fully translatable (Text Domain: cv-header-footer-scripts)

Installation

From this repository

  1. Download or clone this repository.
  2. Zip the plugin folder, or copy it directly into wp-content/plugins/cv-header-footer-scripts/.
  3. In wp-admin, go to Plugins, find CV Simple Header Footer Scripts, and click Activate.
  4. Go to Settings > CV Header Footer to add your scripts.

Via Composer (for development)

git clone https://github.com/cvinfotech/cv-header-footer-scripts.git
cd cv-header-footer-scripts
composer install

composer install pulls in dev-only tooling (PHPCS + WordPress Coding Standards) — it is not required to run the plugin.

Usage

Field Hook Typical use
Header wp_head (priority 999) Meta tags, site verification codes, scripts that must load early (e.g. the GTM container `

Read the full README on GitHub →