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Do you want to allow PHP in your WordPress posts and pages?

WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS) built with PHP, a popular scripting language used by 76.8% of websites.

The problem is that WordPress doesn’t allow users to add PHP code through the block or classic editor for security reasons. Custom PHP Development Company India, either use a plugin or add it manually to your website’s files.

WordPress development in India states that by adding custom code to your site, they can fine-tune WordPress to better suit your needs.

Often when tweaking the code certain developers tend to do it in the parent theme’s files. This is not the best solution. When professional Custom PHP Development Company India updates your theme or plugin, your changes will be lost. Because of the lost changes, you will then tend not to update themes or plugins. This can have undesirable effects on your website. You may miss out on critical security or bug fixes that are issued usually through updates to the theme or plugin. You may also lose the changes when you upgrade your WordPress version.

The easiest way to allow PHP code in WordPress posts and pages is by using WPCode. 

Process that Custom PHP Development Company India, with years of experience in WordPress development in India

• Install and activate the free WPCode plugin. 
• Upon activation, head over to Code Snippets » Add Snippet.
• Here, you will see all the ready-made snippets you can add to your website
• Or you can create your own snippet. creating a new snippet, you need to hover over ‘Add Your Custom Code.’ Then, click on ‘Use snippet.’
• Type in the title 
• Open the ‘Code Type’ dropdown and select ‘PHP Snippet.’
• In the code editor, simply either type in or paste the code that you want to use.
• Scroll to the ‘Insertion’ section.
• Do you know that WPCode offers two ways to insert PHP in pages and posts: by choosing a page-specific location or through shortcodes.

Inserting PHP Codes in a Page-Specific Location

If you choose the ‘Auto Insert’ method, you can select the ‘Page-Specific’ option and choose where to insert the PHP code snippet.

It can be before the post content, after it, before a specific paragraph, and so on. This method is recommended if you want to add custom PHP code in all of your pages and/or posts at once. Once you have chosen a location, you can click on the ‘Inactive’ toggle so that it changes to ‘Active.’

Finally, click on ‘Save Snippet’ to make the snippet live.

Inserting PHP Codes through shortcodes

if you only want to add PHP code snippets in individual pages or posts, then we recommend the shortcode option.

To do this, you’ll be taking advantage of shortcodes in your theme’s functions.php file. The caveat of doing this is it will only work when a theme is applied, such as you can  use a child theme, ensuring that your new functions aren’t overwritten when your theme gets an update.

Find your functions.php file in your theme’s directory, and add your shortcode to it.

This may sound easy, however you will require Custom PHP Development Company India, with years of experience in WordPress development in India to help you to Insert Custom PHP to a WordPress.