• Resolved dunbar

    (@dunbar)


    Here is what I’m supposed to have in my site:

    <html>
    <head>
    <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”oPacoLMZUK39N7Pjs7l03mr054kIBFxTjXEOdFrlLSg” />
    <title> My title </title>
    </head>
    <body>
    page contents
    </body>
    </html>

    I’m using a Merry Christmas WordPress theme >>> https://christmaswalk.info and I even emailed the designer to find out why I cannot get this embedded in the correct spot of the site to get verified.

    He told me to put it into the footer.php file which did not work.

    I have my quantcast code in this same location that worked.

    I cannot find anything in all the spots when I open up my editor for the template to find “exactly” the reference google makes to install this code. I even went ahead and tried interjecting it into every single one and still nothing.

    Is there another way to get into the html page of this wordpress theme to install this?

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  • Thread Starter dunbar

    (@dunbar)

    I’ve also used this code as well:

    google-site-verification: google16f7c08b40c03b39.html

    And installed in a widget text category just to see if it would work, which didn’t.

    <meta name="verify-v1" content="howwEZp6rBaExIBHasdjfhgajksdgfahvs=" />
    is what I use for google verification
    in the header.php file of my theme
    mine’s right under my <title> line, but positioning isn’t so important

    I cannot find anything in all the spots when I open up my editor for the template to find “exactly” the reference google makes to install this code.

    Then don’t use the editor. FTP into you site, grab header.php, edit it in a text editor not a word processor, reupload it.

    Or use the download html file in Google Webmaster Tools to simply upload one html file to your web root rather than edit files to add the meta tag.

    Thread Starter dunbar

    (@dunbar)

    RVoodoo you was the first one I tried to follow information on in regards to this issue and it worked.

    Thanks apljdi and songdogtech for your answers as well because I know I’ll have to do that eventually for other aspects of work I have to do.

    Google made some changes to site verification which make life easier for WordPress users now:

    Worked fine for me.

    I found it does make a difference where the Google code is pasted. Having used various methods to add code to the header, with Google still not recognizing code/verifying site, what finally worked was manually adding the code to the header.php file directly after <title>. So thanks for this post!

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