Meta name and other data on home page

[casper434]

I am in the process of building a new website with wordpress to replace my static HTML site but cannot find out where to place my meta data such as meta name (google verification etc) on the home page. Using Yoast SEO plugin and all I can find is place for title and meta description. Anyone have any experience with this SEO problem? thanks

[RyanKent]

I recommend uploading the file providing by Google to your public_html folder of your site (assuming you use an Apache web server).

I am a stickler for adding the minimum amount of code necessary to a website. This process works just as well without adding any code to your website.