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I've been trying to fix the issue where wp_head loads in the body tag in wordpress, and I've discovered that when I look at the page source, an extra HTML block appears before the code from my header.php file.

Here's what I've tried:

  1. Setting wp_debug to true
  2. ensuring that charset is UTF-8
  3. removing all text before the beginning of !DOCTYPE
  4. check for missing closing tags

This is my header.php file enter image description here

Here is the output source: You can see that my code is being rendered correctly.. but why am I getting a HTML block at the start of the document??

You can see that my code is being rendered correctly.. but why am I getting a HTML block at the start of the document?? Any help would be amazing. Thanks so much

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  • @Abhik the header.php is the content in the first screenshot. – go_cuc Jan 7 '18 at 9:13
  • Can't see any odd in your code. Try moving the wp_head() call to before closing <head> tag. – Abhik Jan 7 '18 at 9:14
  • That didn't work... but thanks for the suggestion @Abhik – go_cuc Jan 7 '18 at 9:23
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    There's most likely some static HTML somewhere in your template files. copy your themes files to your computer, and search for the <title>Document</title> as text among the files. You'll probably find where it's being added. – Jack Johansson♦ Jan 7 '18 at 10:26
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I am really not sure what's causing this. Can you try with a minimal content in header.php? Something like this and see if the problem occurs?

<!doctype html>
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
    <meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

    <?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

<body <?php body_class(); ?>>

And, meta tags doesn't support class attributes like you have in line 11.

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  • thanks for the advice, i removed the meta class from the head and relocated the wp_head() to the bottom and it started to work correctly. Thanks for your help – go_cuc Jan 8 '18 at 7:37

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