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Hack: Placing the Google Tag Manager in WordPress After the body Tag

Tips and tricks

In this post, I will show how to insert the Google Tag Manager in WordPress immediately after the opening tag. The solution isn’t based on a child theme or JavaScript.

@NiloVelez
1 March, 2020

What’s new in Machete 3.1

versions

Last week I launched Machete 3.1, a new major version with lots of tiny improvements and an extensive code revision. I've taken great care not to break existing sites so you can update without any worries. These are the main highlights of the new version.

@NiloVelez
26 February, 2018

Cookie Bar Customization – Adapting Machete’s cookie bar to your needs

Tips and tricks

Machete’s cookie bar is simple on purpose, by default it only allows to enable or disable it, change the text and choose between a light or a dark skin. You can access it on the side menu of WordPress admin…

@NiloVelez
28 October, 2017

How to remove the ‘capital_P_dangit’ filter from WordPress

WordPress Optimization

The ‘capital_P_dangit’ is a small piece of code that was added to the WordPress core just before WordPress 3.0 was released. It changes all instances of “Wordpress” (notice the lowercase “p”) to “WordPress” in areas where content is shown on…

@NiloVelez
3 August, 2017

Remove query strings from static resources in WordPress

WordPress Optimization

Remove query strings from static resources is a common warning which you find while checking the loading time of your site in GTmetrix or any other related tool. Google uses page speed as one of it's ranking factors, so you must have a closer look the all the aspects which are slowing down your site.

@NiloVelez
15 July, 2017

Machete 1.5 available with the new maintenance mode module

versions

Machete version 1.5 is fresh out of the oven and it is it’s biggest release ever. Apart from some minor fixes and a much needed code cleanup, I’ve added a function often missed in WordPress: the maintenance mode. With Machete’s…

@NiloVelez
8 December, 2016