Adding a GeoTrust Malware seal to a WordPress website

If you try to add that code via the post editor then yes Very Bad Things™ will happen to it. The post editor isn’t designed for inserting code like that and that should go in your theme’s files.

If you are uncomfortable with editing your theme’s files (and that’s not a bad thing either) try adding that javascript via a plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=Header+and+footer

I’ve used this one in the past for inserting into the header.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/header-footer/

If you do use a plugin, please read the instructions carefully.

Plugins tend to be safer but if you’re OK with editing theme files…

Try creating a child theme (so your additions or edits don’t get wiped out) and then try adding that code in your theme’s header.php file.

I suggest you look for the line that says wp_head() and put the code right before that line.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_head

A plugin really would be safer…

Edit: HA! I’ve looked at http://www.geotrust.com/support/quick-ssl-support/premium-true-site-seal/ and I’m completely wrong. That’s for an icon and NOT in the head. Don’t edit those theme files, I’m way off base here.

Give me a few minutes. 😉

But I did what you said and the seal now appears but above all my web pages.

Yep. I edited my reply after you read it. Back out any theme changes, my advice was not that good. 😉

Looking at that GeoTrust web page it looks like you do want to be able to insert that code into your post or page.

Inserting scripts like that almost never works out. But you can use a plugin to create a shortcode and insert that shortcode into your post. That works really well and here’s the shortcode plugin to do that.

http://pastebin.com/Dg5mEnX6

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: GeoTrust QuickSSL Icon Shortcode
Description: Use [mh-geotrust] to insert the QuickSSL Premium True Site Seal into your post or page.
Author: Jan Dembowski
Version: 0.1
*/

add_shortcode( 'mh-geotrust', 'mh_geotrust_seal' );
function mh_geotrust_seal( $atts ) {
	$mh_text = <<<'EOD'
	<!-- GeoTrust QuickSSL [tm] Smart  Icon tag. Do not edit. -->
	<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"  TYPE="text/javascript"
	SRC="//smarticon.geotrust.com/si.js"></SCRIPT>
	<!-- end  GeoTrust Smart Icon tag -->
EOD;
	return $mh_text;
}

Shortcodes are cool. 😉

Create a file in wp-content/plugins/geotrust-icon.php and copy the contents above into that file. Visit your WordPress dashboard and locate the plugin named GeoTrust QuickSSL Icon Shortcode and activate it.

Now in your post or page just add [mh-geotrust] in the post where you want that javascript to appear. Save and visit that post URL.

If you look at the HTML source of that page you should see the code you want inserted there.