Version 1.0 gave you the possibility to add scripts to the end of the ‘content’ of any single page/post. The new version gives you the possibility to add scripts to the beginning of the ‘content’ as well.

This means that the Embed Scipt WordPress plugin has become not only the perfect solution for your adding your Google Adwords to your WordPress site, but also for adding your Google Site Optimizer codes and split test your landing pages!

You can read more about and download the Embed Script WordPress plugin here.

I hope you’ll like it. Please let me know what you think of it.

I made it because someone asked for something like this on a great forum I’m a member of. This person wanted to add Adwords conversion tracking code to a page. Something that sounds very easy, but really isn’t. Not in WordPress. But with this plugin it’s a piece of cake!

Once installed, you’ll see a new box on the right side of the page/post edit panel, called ‘Creative Clans Embed Script’ (what a surprise) containing a text area where you can add any script you want to add to the page.

Attention! The script will be added at the end of the page/post content you write in the editor on the left. Since you can’t decide where the code will appear, you shouldn’t use it for things that must appear on screen (unless you want it to appear at the end of the post/page text. But for ‘invisible’ things like tracking code it’s perfect.

Just go to the Downloads page if you want to download it.

It’s not yet available in the wordpress plugin repository. As soon as it is, I’ll let you know.

Here are the plugins:

• Widgets on Pages
• Add Widgets to Page

I prefer the second one, because it isn’t limited to 6 post/page widget areas and you can give the post/page widget areas a meaningful name. And also because the first one seems to conflict with another plugin I would like to use (Sociable).

23 May 2010: I have to rectify the part above that I wrote 5 days ago. First of all, there was no conflict at all between the Widgets on Pages and the Sociable plugin. The problem was caused by the Add Widgets to Page plugin (I’ll come to that in a moment). Secondly, the new release of the Widgets on Pages plugin no longer has the limit of 6 widget areas: now they are unlimited, so there’s no difference between the two from that point of view.

Now, when I thought the first plugin was in conflict with the Sociable plugin, what was really happening was that the second plugin didn’t display the widget where I wanted it in the page, but at the beginning. Even before the title. I found the fix for that.

So in the end there was a problem, but it wasn’t what I first thought it was (I mixed up the tests of the two plugins…), and I blamed the wrong plugin. I apologize for that. Right now, I prefer the first plugin. Although with the fix the second one works fine too. Let’s hope the author of the Add widgets to page plugin will implement the fix soon.

When using the second plugin, remember this:

If you use this plugin, and after adding [addw2p name="widgetareaname"] to a post or page, when you go to the admin widgets panel, you don’t see the new widget area appearing, don’t worry.
Just go to your site, and view the post/page. You’ll see something like this:

please set some widgets to show from Appearance -> Widgets.

Now refresh the admin widgets panel, and you’ll see the new widget area.

There should be no problems with this upgrade, but if there are, let me know.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused.