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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

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/cvinfotech/cv-header-footer-scripts/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/cvinfotech/cv-header-footer-scripts ↗

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 `