For some website projects, you will sooner or later need to add some custom code snippets or perhaps code some CSS to style specific elements on a WordPress page. At the very least, you should be able to add analytics, tracking, and plugin relevant scripts to a website.
It’s important for you to know how to add custom code to WordPress, like scripts, HTML, and CSS. And it’s not that hard.
In this short Skill Snippet video, you will learn a quick, safe, and elegant way of doing this by using a plugin. It’s usually a better and simpler solution than starting to fiddle with WordPress theme code-files.
If you are a beginner at building websites, adding CODE sounds super-advanced and hard. But I think this video will show you that it can be easy to at least manage some simple ready-made scripts on a client’s website.
Knowing how to add custom scripts to WordPress is something you should level up on anyway. As you know, it levels up your skills and increases your value to your clients.
You won’t be doing coding
Even though, in this video, I will be showing you a slick method on how to add custom code in WordPress, you won’t be doing any coding.
It’s just a lesson showing you where to paste existing code snippets you get from other sources.
Tips for better website analytics
I mention that I don‘t use Google Analytics, and have’t for years. Also, most of my web design clients don’t like it. Simply because its a mess, its complicated, and they end up not using it.
Instead I use Plausible.io, which is a better and privacy based analytics service for WordPress and other websites.