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Include The Facebook Pixel Tracking Code In Your WordPress Head

I follow a few "low-end" Facebook groups focused on marketing and best-practice advertising. I'm not sure why I do because the misguided information only further fuels my disdain for that segment of the marketing community that really doesn't have a clue what they're doing. Anyhow, one of the questions that pops up from time-to-time is how to enter the Facebook tracking pixel into the head of a WordPress website. Since you'll be using the pixel on every page of your website, using the wp_head action to render the code is appropriate.

Only use a plugin if you absolutely need additional features and functionality, and never just add the code to a core file (around half of the clueless contributors to the thread in question tend to advocate this nonsense). If you're a client, our full-featured plugin includes all the pixel-related features you'll ever need; activate from your control panel.

The Code

Copy and paste the WordPress function into your theme's functions.php file or, if you sensibly have one installed, your custom functions plugin.

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<?php 
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/*
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 Include The Facebook Pixel Tracking Code In Your WordPress Head
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 http://www.beliefmedia.com/code/wp-snippets/facebook-pixel
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*/
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function beliefmedia_facbeook_tracking_pixel() {
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 /* Enter your Facebook Pixel ID here */
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 $pixel_id = '128710237825530';
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?>
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<!-- Facebook Pixel Code -->
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<script>
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  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)
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  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?
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  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};
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  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';
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  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;
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  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];
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  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',
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  'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js');
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  fbq('init', '<?php echo $pixel_id; ?>');
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  fbq('track', 'PageView');
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</script>
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<noscript><img height="1" width="1" style="display:none"
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  src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=<?php echo $pixel_id; ?>&ev=PageView&noscript=1"
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/></noscript>
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<!-- End Facebook Pixel Code -->
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<?php
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}
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add_action('wp_head', 'beliefmedia_facbeook_tracking_pixel');

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