Setting up Google Tag Manager

paderdeko · July 2015

Hi guyz!

I want to setup google tag manager but the description google offers seems not to work for me/our theme. Google says to implement tag manager snippet after opening <body> tag. I'm using the child theme so I had to look for the body tag. Found it in header.php but I'm not sure if it's right and where to insert it exactly.. Could you please support?

thx in advance!

Albert · July 2015

Hi,

as you wrote above, you must paste the code right after the <body> tag. But please notice that we do not offer any files modifications so you must do all changes yourself at your own risk. But if you don't know how, then you must contact with your website developer.

Thanks for understanding!

paderdeko · July 2015

Ok, I understand. But the body-tag is not visible as quoted by you above. Could you please give a hint?

In the header.php it looks like this:

...

Is it right to put code after that??

paderdeko · July 2015

*** SOLVED ***

You can go to: Design - Theme Options - Global - Hooks - Top and paste Google Tag Manager Code in custom field to be executed after opening <body> tag

Albert · July 2015

We're glad to hear that you found the right section

rkotwal · March 2016

Just use the plugin DuracellTomi's Google Tag Manager for WordPress - you'll find it in the plugins directory. https://duracelltomi.com/

Use the file injection method and insert your GTM-Code - it works fine.

Rashid.

arkansas-designer · December 2017

Rashid - yes, you can do it that way. But, while I'm not an expert Wordpress developer, I can tell you that best practice with Wordpress development is to use as few plugins as possible. Actually, funny thing is that the reason I'm on this page is because I've been using a wordpress plugin to insert GTM onto a Betheme site ("Insert Headers and Footers") and was checking to see if there was a way to handle GTM injection via default Betheme. Turns out there is.

I appreciate paderdeko posting the solution. Super helpful. I'm doing that now and will then deactivate the Insert Headers and Footers plugin. Once I've confirmed that GTM is functional on the site I'll then delete the plugin. I'm trying to reduce the number of plugins active and installed on my site(s).

epicroofing · January 2018

Hi, what about the javascript? Where should I put that?

Bryan · January 2018

epicroofing
Hi,
javascript can be pasted in theme options>custom css&js>JS
thanks

ellaadem · September 2018

Hi,

I tried adding the Google Tag Manager script by following both of the two options suggested in this thread:

1. Design - Theme Options - Global - Hooks - Top

and

2. javascript can be pasted in theme options>custom css&js>JS

It does not seem to work, I can't see the tags in the Google Tag Assistant. Are there any other solutions?

Thanks!

Regards,

Ella

Pablo · September 2018

ellaadem

You can insert it into Theme Options > SEO in Google | Remarketing field.

It will place this code before the closing </body> tag, so it have to work.

Thanks

vtrangcw · November 2020

I doesn't work for me. I tried both but Google doesn't fire any of it. Please help.

Pablo · November 2020

vtrangcw

Please always attach a link so we can check it out. If the page is offline(localhost) then our help will be limited, you will have to contact us when the page is online. Also please make sure that the page is not under maintenance before you provide us the link.
It is always a good idea to also attach a screenshot, for that use services like snag.gy or pasteboard.co
thanks

jbnews · November 2020

Hi, I tried all solutions above and my code doesn't appear except for the commentary :

Any idea why ?

Phil · November 2020

Hello @jbnews,

Please always attach a link to your website so we can check it out. If the page is offline(localhost) then our help will be limited, you will have to contact us when the page is online. Also please make sure that the page is not under maintenance before you provide us the link.

It is always a good idea to also attach a screenshot, for that use services like snag.gy or pasteboard.co

thanks

Setting up Google Tag Manager

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