{"id":170,"date":"2008-09-26T18:54:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-09-26T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T16:01:13","slug":"how-to-remove-meta-name-generator-content-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2008\/09\/26\/how-to-remove-meta-name-generator-content-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove <meta name="generator" content="WordPress…" \/> from <head> in a WP blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met with the following interesting problem today:<\/p>\n

Due to specific needs, I needed to remove from the HEAD part of one WordPress blog the following:<\/p>\n


\n<meta name="generator" content="WordPress [version number]" \/>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

The WP theme, in which I was making the changes, was the standard for WP Default Kubrick Theme<\/em>. The WP version I was using was 2.6.2.<\/p>\n

I was searching and searching inside the code of header.php<\/code> — and did not find anything! Before, in every WP theme, in header.php<\/code>, usually the following code was present:<\/p>\n


\n <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" \/><!-- leave this for stats -->
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Now, I wasn’t able to find it…<\/p>\n

I tried also global search<\/em> inside all of the files of this theme, and again, with total un-success. Finally, I tried the last possible option — Google Seach…<\/p>\n

…And have found it<\/a>! :-)<\/p>\n

In short: if you want to hide from the HTML code \"<meta name="generator" content="WordPress ..." \/><\/code>, as well as the exact WP version you are using, all you need to do is (in case that you don’t find the code inside header.php<\/code> — for example, in WP up to version 2.3.3, the code was usually there):<\/p>\n

1) Locate and open with a text code editor the file functions.php<\/code> inside the theme directory — for example, if you are using the Default Theme, the functions.php<\/code> will be in wp-content\/themes\/default\/functions.php<\/code>.
\n2) Add inside it the following code:
\nremove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');<\/code>
\n3) Save the file functions.php<\/code> and upload it back to the server.<\/p>\n

That’s it! Automagically<\/em>, the code, which shows that you are using WordPress, as well as the exact version of it, will disappear from the HTML source! :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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