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Best Free WordPress Plugins for Head

15 plugins compared · Updated August 2026 · Head

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Choosing a WordPress plugin for head comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 15 plugins using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 15 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

  1. 1. Head & Footer Code Best overall 89/100
  2. 2. Head, Footer and Post Injections 87/100
  3. 3. Head Meta Data 84/100
  4. 4. AddFunc Head & Footer Code 83/100
  5. 5. Header and Footer Scripts 82/100
  6. 6. wp_head() cleaner 81/100
  7. 7. Analytics Head 79/100
  8. 8. Add Code To Head 78/100
  9. 9. Tags to Keywords 76/100
  10. 10. Scripts To Footer 75/100
  11. 11. Force jQuery in Head 60/100
  12. 12. WP Head Cleanup 54/100
  13. 13. DCO Insert Analytics Code 53/100
  14. 14. HiFi 51/100
  15. 15. CSS Above The Fold 47/100
1 Head & Footer Code
Best overall Free by Aleksandar Urošević

Head & Footer Code

Easy add site-wide, category and article specific custom code before the closing </head> and </body>, or after opening <body> tag.

5★
from 51 ratings
100k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
89

WPScore

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3 Head Meta Data
Free by Jeff Starr

Head Meta Data

Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages.

4.8★
from 19 ratings
10k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
84

WPScore

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4 AddFunc Head & Footer Code
Free by AddFunc

AddFunc Head & Footer Code

Easily add code to your head, footer and/or immediately after the opening body tag, site-wide and/or on any individual page/post.

5★
from 25 ratings
20k+
active installs
Updated
Apr 2026
Tested to
WP 6.9.7
83

WPScore

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7 Analytics Head
Free by Łukasz Nowicki

Analytics Head

A lightweight Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. Paste your Measurement ID, choose head or footer — done.

5★
from 1 ratings
600+
active installs
Updated
Jul 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
79

WPScore

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10 Scripts To Footer
Free by Joshua David Nelson

Scripts To Footer

Move your scripts to the footer to help speed up perceived page load times and improve user experience.

4.7★
from 37 ratings
7k+
active installs
Updated
Nov 2025
Tested to
WP 6.8.8
75

WPScore

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12 WP Head Cleanup
Free by nablasol

WP Head Cleanup

WP Head Cleanup helps you to remove unnecessary extra links from the page header.

5★
from 1 ratings
100+
active installs
Updated
Jan 2025
Tested to
WP 4.0.38
54

WPScore

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14 HiFi
Free by farinspace

HiFi

HiFi is a head and foot injection plugin. It allows you to inject code into the head and foot areas of your posts and pages on a per-page basis.

4.8★
from 5 ratings
2k+
active installs
Updated
Dec 2010
Tested to
WP 3.0.5
51

WPScore

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15 CSS Above The Fold
Free by Pau Iglesias

CSS Above The Fold

Faster CSS browser rendering displaying selected fragments of your theme stylesheet file directly into the head section.

5★
from 1 ratings
200+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2015
Tested to
WP 4.3.34
47

WPScore

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