Title: HTML source code? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # HTML source code? * [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/) * Hi. Can you tell me how I can find the HTML source code for my blog? Thanks. Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [basketball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basketball/) * (@basketball) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177022) * You go to your blog, then you click on view then source (if on Internet Explorer) or page source (if on firefox) * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177023) * Thanks for your reply, sorry I didn’t make myself clear. I want to add something to the HTML. In WP, how can I access the code so I can modify it? * [Jabbok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabbok/) * (@jabbok) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177024) * You’ll have to edit the .php files. Index.php Header.php Sidebar.php * etc. … * [basketball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basketball/) * (@basketball) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177156) * If your using wp 1.5 you have to go to your blog directory > wp-content > theme > default or whatever your using and edit the PHP * if your using WP 1.2 the fiels should in your blog directory * Or you can login to your admin panel go to themes then theme-editor * If you want to change the look modifity the stylesheet (wp-layout.css or style. css). The other files usually vary, if you want to change the menu on the side look for sidebar.php, if you want the main index look for Main Template or index. php * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177288) * I use WP 1.5. If I want to add a java script popunder to my blog I need to paste the code inside the . I’ll find this info in which file? Thanks. * [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/) * (@oriecat) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177289) * In the header.php for the theme you are using. * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177316) * I couldn’t find a header.php in my > wp-content > theme > dots directory in my blog or in my dots directory on my hard drive. Any ideas? When I find it do I ftp the file from my blog to my hard drive and edit it and then upload it? Thanks. * [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/) * (@oriecat) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177318) * Oh did you create that theme from a 1.2? Then it might not be separated out. It is probably in the index.php then, in the theme folder. * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177323) * Yes, thanks for bringing that up. I’m using an updated 1.2 theme. I found index. php in themes/default. Does that sound like what I should modify? Also, can I do this from the index.php on my drive or is the way to do it to ftp it from the blog to drive, modify and then upload? Thanks. * [basketball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basketball/) * (@basketball) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177331) * Look at your index.php file from top to bottom if you see the meta tags title and stuff near the top just add the javascript between the heads tags. If it jumps from including wp-blog-header.php to the `` (main content) with a few include lines in between I would look in the files that the index.php is including them in. For example I have index.php which has an include to header.php and mainmenu.php and all my javascript code is in the header.php file. * As for the FTP, you could download/edit/upload but i find it easier to just edit the file from wp-admin if it’s just adding a piece of javascript code. * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177467) * Thanks. So are you saying that in my ftp I could open the file and modify it there? If so, is just closing it actually “saving it?” * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177472) * I just checked the php.index and didn’t see any kind of info, seemed to mostly be about permalink. Where should I check next? Thanks again. * [basketball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basketball/) * (@basketball) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177476) * You can just edit in FTP and close it expecting it to be fixed. Unless you are on windows default ftp client you have to download edit save then reupload. * All the stuff is in your index.php OR linked from the index.php file. To find it: * 1) Open your index.php file, look for the code similar to 2) Look at the the file listed (header.php) for the tags. If it’s not there look at the nest php include and so on and you should find it Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘HTML source code?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 13 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [basketball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basketball/) * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code/#post-177476) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics