Customize the theme with code snippets
Beside using a child theme to modify themes, you can also use plugins to achieve it. It is easier than using the child theme, but it has some limited. You should use plugins when your customizations are simple.
Insert scripts to header and footer.
Sometimes you need to insert some kind of code to your website. It is most likley a web analytics code like Google Analytics or may be social media script or some CSS stylesheet or may be Custom fonts. You can use this plugin:
You can use this plugin to:
To insert CSS and JavaScript codes to
<head>or before</body>.To insert code to
<head>of any single page, post, or custom post type.
This plugin can't be used to insert PHP codes.
Add PHP code snippets
Most tutorials tell you to add snippet code to the functions.php file of a child theme (we do too), but if you don't want to do it, you can use this plugin:
This plugin provides graphical interface, similar to the Plugins menu, for managing snippets. Snippets can can be activated and deactivated, just like plugins.
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