Title: Insert a PHP head code to a WP website Last modified: March 11, 2018 --- # Insert a PHP head code to a WP website * Resolved [Luuk Faasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luukf8/) * (@luukf8) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-a-php-head-code-to-a-wp-website/) * Hello, * I’m building a WordPress website, and I have to insert a PHP code BEFORE the tag on every page. My site is still in maintenance mode using a plugin. But, I have to insert a PHP code before the tag before it will be published. Here’s an example of what I want: * ``` ``` * Does anyone have a solution for this? I hope this will be fixed, I want to publish my site soon. Thanks in advance. * Regards, Luuk Faasse Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/) * (@jakept) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-a-php-head-code-to-a-wp-website/#post-10062064) * There’s a variety of hooks that run before the HTML is output, but which is appropriate depends on what exactly your code is doing. What does your code do? * Thread Starter [Luuk Faasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luukf8/) * (@luukf8) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-a-php-head-code-to-a-wp-website/#post-10062149) * My code is detecting an affiliate string. This is my code: * ``` ``` * It’s setting a cookie when an “aid” query string is entered. * Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) * (@bcworkz) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-a-php-head-code-to-a-wp-website/#post-10062662) * You cannot set cookies with PHP in HTML head sections. Cookies must be set before any output is sent out to the browser. Adding your code to a callback hooked to “init” should be OK. * Alternately, set the cookie with JavaScript. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Insert a PHP head code to a WP website’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/code/) * [Coding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/coding/) * [developing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/developing/) * [editing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editing/) * [head](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/head/) * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-a-php-head-code-to-a-wp-website/#post-10062662) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics