Free WordPress Plugin To Remove Generator Meta Tag / Version Information From WordPress Blogs

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Monday, June 30, 2008

WordPress, in recent versions, have forces the display of WordPress as the generator in meta tags along with the version information in the header of your WordPress blogs - . Unlike previous versions there is not easy way to remove it. Unless WordPress is using that to provide support (which it doesn’t), I don’t see any good reason for providing that extra bit of help to hackers, do you? Here is a simple plugin which will remove the WordPress generator meta tag along with its version information.

Download Angsuman’s WordPress Header Info Remover Plugin, rename the file to wp-header-remover.php, upload it to wp-content/plugins folder of your blog and activate it from Plugin Management screen. It requires zero configuration. It does one thing and does it well - remove the useless WordPress version information header from your WordPress blog.

Note: This is written in PHP, like any other WordPress plugin. You can use this simple plugin as an example to develop your own WordPress plugins.

You can get more free WordPress plugins here.

Discussion
December 27, 2010: 9:46 pm

Thanks Angsuman for your plugins. It’s simple but I realy need this plugins to delete WP versions.

September 16, 2010: 8:18 am

It does one thing and does it well - remove the useless WordPress version information header from your WordPress blog.

July 2, 2010: 4:24 am

Good post. I am bookmarking your blog.. This free meta tag generator tools provides the easy way of generating title and meta tags for seo onpage optimization.

June 6, 2010: 11:51 pm

Is this your second blog!? I’m pretty sure I remember you from a while ago..used to scan your last blog regularly. Not positive if I’m thinking of the same someone though!

May 7, 2010: 3:04 am

thanks you very much love real admin and boss..

May 7, 2010: 12:10 am

thank you guy

April 28, 2010: 1:44 am

t requires zero configuration. It does one thing and does it well - remove the useless WordPress version information header from your WordPress blog.

August 14, 2009: 12:49 pm

Or just add this to the top of your functions.php file?

remove_action(’wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);


V.C
July 8, 2009: 1:24 pm

It’s no need to use plugin. Just use this code and paste it into your function.php:

/* Remove WordPress generator meta tag */
function rmv_generator_filter() {
return ”; }

add_filter(’the_generator’, ‘rmv_generator_filter’);

May 22, 2009: 1:02 pm

That Plug-in is useful for me and hope for others also.

Nice Work…
Great job on the Plug-in.

May 14, 2009: 5:54 am

Thanks a lot for your plugins. They look extremely nice.

March 19, 2009: 10:50 pm

Thanks Angsuman, This is great was looking for a way to remove all that clutter.

February 13, 2009: 2:04 pm

Good one. If you ever look how many times the wordpress appears in the source code of your wordpress blog, this might explain why its influencing for example your Google Adsense ads.


MJ
January 11, 2009: 7:10 am

Hello,

Works perfect in version 2.7. Any idea how to replace it with your own contents? For example

Regards,
Marcel Jong

July 18, 2008: 11:05 pm

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July 15, 2008: 1:56 pm

Thanks Angsuman for your plugins. It’s simple but I realy need this plugins to delete WP versions.

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