How to Hide your WordPress version?
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TheBloggerTips on
March 14th, 2008
photo credit: Ariel Ophelia
Current version for wordpress.org is 2.3.3. The new version 2.5 is coming and alot of people is waiting and ready to upgrade. How do you hide your wordpress version from visibility to public? By default, the theme of WordPress have a line in the header.php to display the current version of WordPress that currently using by your blogsite. You can view the version by viewing source. Since anyone can find your WordPress version using view source code. Then your blog is prone to hackers until you upgrade to the latest version. In order to prevent your WordPress version from displaying to other people, you can just open the wordpress theme under header.php file and look for the following meta name and replace with the bottom meta content.
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(’version’); ?>” />
<meta content=”WordPress” name=”generator” />
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