Wordpress: How to remove meta generator tag?

Wordpress show ver no. in meta generator tag by default. You may remove the meta generator tag for security reason. It’s easy to remove meta generator tag in wordpress, just add a line to a line.

To remove meta generator tag in wordpress, follow the steps below:-

• Login into your wordpress admin panel as administrator privilege
• Go to Appearance -> Editor and click on the file functions.php
• Go to the bottom of the page and add this line before the line with ?> and click Update

  remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');

• if you do not have functions.php file, you may create one with the content below and upload to your theme folder:-

  <?php remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); ?>

• Done, you have just removed meta generator tag in wordpress
• Now clear your wordpress cache (if you have any) else you can visit your front page to verify the existence of meta generator tag

Tags: meta generator, meta tag, Wordpress, wordpress meta generator

Posted at February 12th, 2009 by chua

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