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Tag Manager – Header, Body And Footer
Simple script injection that occasionally breaks your site and haunts your dashboard.
HealthyDeclining
73/100
Users love the simplicity but fear site breakage and undismissable dashboard notices.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
53 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-18%
Declining
73 → 60 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -18% in the last year
73/day a year ago→60/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayTag Manager – Header, Body And Footer is a well-liked, lightweight plugin praised for its simplicity in injecting scripts, but it carries real concerns around PHP compatibility, site-breaking incidents, and an undismissable admin notice.
What people like
- +Simple and quick to use — users with no coding background can add header/body/footer scripts in minutes×8
- +Reliably does its core job of injecting scripts (e.g. Google Tag Manager) without fuss×6
- +Confirmed working on modern WordPress and PHP versions by at least one user (WordPress 6.1 / PHP 8.1)
Common complaints
- −Reported incompatibility with PHP versions beyond 7.4, causing site breakage
- −Plugin broke a live website after a week of use, requiring removal to restore the site
- −Admin notice in the WordPress dashboard cannot be dismissed, which at least one user finds unacceptable
- −Long gap between updates raises concerns about ongoing maintenance
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.70★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 53 total
Latest reviews · 53 analyzed
- 2026-02-25★★★★★Great Plugineagle4web
- 2025-08-14★★★★★Works and simpleLevi
- 2025-08-13★★★★★Cream of the crop pluginpennypacker7368
- 2025-04-08★★★★★Very Reliableilaos
- 2025-02-03★★★★★Well done!pedrobelasco1-shot
- 2025-01-24★★★★★Just works!beckymc
- 2025-01-17★★★★★Deluxeartdivi
- 2024-12-04★★★★★Very usefulPaola Zorro
- 2024-04-29★★★★★Works well and does exactly what it claims to do!Jeff
- 2024-02-22★★★★★ADMIN NOTICES WON'T GO AWAYmichaelfischerat
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Tag Manager
Top Analytics plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
61
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
62
Prior 7-day baseline
49
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
80
Mean release-day peak (30d)
67
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-1.6%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
21%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.93
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.74 → 4.70★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered