I did put it in header.php in the <head></head> tags too which allowed me to set up the webmaster tool as it recognized the code but the tracking status still says not installed. I don’t know what to do.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php
wp_title( '|' );
// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
echo " | $site_description"; ?>
</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-45243983-1', 'candyheartsmakeupandhair.co.uk');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
</head>
<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
<!--wrapper-->
<div id="wrapper">
<!--headercontainer-->
<div id="header_container">
<!--header-->
<div id="header2">
<?php if ( ( of_get_option('logo_image') ) != '' ) { ?>
<div id="logo"><a href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>"><img src="<?php echo of_get_option('logo_image'); ?>" alt="<?php echo of_get_option('footer_cr'); ?>" /></a></div><!--logo end-->
<?php } else { ?>
<div id="logo2"><a href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></div><!--logo end-->
<?php } ?>
<!--menu-->
<div id="menubar">
<?php $navcheck = wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav' ,'fallback_cb' => '', 'echo' => false ) ); ?>
<?php if ($navcheck == '') { ?>
<ul class="nav">
<li class="page_item"><a href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
</ul>
<?php } else echo($navcheck); ?>
</div>
<!--menu end-->
<div class="clear"></div>
</div><!-- header end-->
<hr />
</div><!--header container end-->
