How to Hide WordPress version

In order to secure your blog, is it a good thing to hide the meta version appearing within the and html tag of your blog. Since WP 2.5, the version is inserted automatically, and can’t be removed as easily at before. Except if you use that hack ! This hack isn’t hard to do at all. Just open the functions.php file from your theme and add the following line of code: remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); On the above code, We just used the remove_action to remove the wp_generator() function, which prints out WP version.... [Read the full story]

Always Remove the WordPress Version Code

Don’t want the world to know what version of WordPress you’re running? One thing I don’t think people realize is that a hacker can easily find vulnerable WordPress blogs because most standard WordPress themes will actually tell them what version you are using. If you open up the header.php file of your theme, you should notice some code that looks something like this: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /><!-- leave this for stats --> In order to protect your WordPress... [Read the full story]