Title: moving scripts from header Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # moving scripts from header * Resolved [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spstieng/) * (@spstieng) * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-scripts-from-header/) * I’ve added a few plugsins like SimplwViewer, Google Calendar and Image manager. When I looking at the HTML source, I discovered a lot of javascripts. * Having a lot of javascripts in the header is not good if you want to optimize the site for the search engines. * This code generates a lot of code, and most taken from plugins. * How can I alter this to have the be displayed in the footer rather in the header? * I have looked into general-template.php to see if I could discover anything. The only thing I found was this: * ``` function get_header() { do_action( 'get_header' ); if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header.php') ) load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header.php'); else load_template( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/default/header.php'); } ``` * Any suggestions anyone? Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [xamataca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xamataca/) * (@xamataca) * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-scripts-from-header/#post-804749) * This has to do with plugins inserting their needed javascript to work. And the correct placement is between your tags in header.php if they are linking to a .js file * Most won’t work if you put them in the footer.php, because the js scripts need to set vars and functions before call them inside the tags. Another matter is if those plugins just fill the head with javascript code… I think that’s a problem with how the plugin is coded. * I’m not an expert in JS but probably you will get a proper explanation from someone with more knowledge. * Thread Starter [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spstieng/) * (@spstieng) * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-scripts-from-header/#post-804877) * Yeah, call to .js scripts needs to be in the header. But actual javascripts should be put in the footer if possible. * I’ll leave it be for the moment. * Thanks. * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-scripts-from-header/#post-804879) * > Having a lot of javascripts in the header is not good if you want to optimize > the site for the search engines. * …that’s crap. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘moving scripts from header’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-scripts-from-header/#post-804879) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics