Title: Making notes in code
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Making notes in code

 *  [daveconrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveconrey/)
 * (@daveconrey)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-notes-in-code/)
 * Sorry if this topic has been discussed, but I’ve been searching for almost an
   hour now and can’t find the answer. I’m adding some analytics script to my file,
   but I want to notate it to remind myself what that script is if I go back into
   the file later and change it.
 * First, I’ve been placing the code between the HEAD tags of my Header file. Should
   I be placing it in a different file?
 * Second, I’ve tried adding the `/* */` tags to make the text non viewable, but
   it still shows up at the top. Is there a better way/place to make these notes?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-notes-in-code/#post-511618)
 * Your comments in a html file should be:
    `<!-- my code starts here -->` qwerty
   qwerty asdfg asdfg `<!-- my code ends here -->`
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-notes-in-code/#post-511627)
 * That will work, but another way is like so:
    `<?php // this is a comment ?> <?
   php /* this is a comment too */ ?>
 * The difference is that moshu’s way will have the comment in the actual source
   code of the page and anybody can see it. The php way above gets ignored during
   page processing, and will not show up in the final page, but will still be in
   the theme itself.
 *  Thread Starter [daveconrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveconrey/)
 * (@daveconrey)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-notes-in-code/#post-511630)
 * thanks guys. I appreciate that tidy bit of info.

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