Great news for WordPress developers – WordPress now has a theme action hook to put code immediately after the <body> tag! It’s called “wp_body_open“. The new tag was included in WordPress 5.2 in May 2019, and is slowly being adopted by theme developers (e.g. It was added to Beaver Builder Theme in April 2020 – screengrab below).
No more having to hack your theme to put Google Tag Manager or other scripts in the <body> section of your website! Just use an action hook in either functions.php or your functional plugin like so:
// Add code just after <body> tag
function custom_content_after_body_open_tag() {
?>
<script>Custom script here</script
<?php
}
add_action('wp_body_open', 'custom_content_after_body_open_tag');
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