How To Remove Wordpress Version Generator Tag

Wordpress blogs as with other blogs with different softwares are prone to being hacked despite security measures put in place by the software makers. So it’s always good to seek better ways of increasing their level of security.

A good way of preventing your blog from being hacked is by removing the Meta Generator Tag. This tag makes your version of wordpress known to the world at large, hackers included. Any knowledge of your wordpress version, helps the hacker perpetrate his evil acts.

To remove the Meta Generator Tag do this:

1. Open your theme’s header.php file and look for this tag: <meta name="generator" />. If it’s present, delete it and save the file.
2. Open up wp-includes/general-template.php and search for the following function :  function the_generator( $type ) { echo apply_filters(‘the_generator’, get_the_generator($type), $type) . “\n”; }. Place a # before echo, save the file and you’re done. The result should look like this function the_generator( $type ) {
   #echo apply_filters(‘the_generator’, get_the_generator($type), $type) . “\n”;
   }

The above tutorial was made possible by Semlab’s post How to Stop Your WordPress Blog Getting Hacked.

P.S: To see if the above has worked, simply open a page on your site, right click on it and choose View Page Source. This tag <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.7.1″> will not be shown again.

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