Comments on: Remove the WordPress Generator

By: เกมส์ทําอาหาร

เกมส์ทําอาหาร — Sun, 09 May 2010 11:57:13 +0000

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By: Diamond Deluxe

Diamond Deluxe — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:28:59 +0000

Yeah, but

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

would still write the generator to the feeds, while

function no_generator() { return ”; }
add_filter(‘the_generator’, ‘no_generator’);

successfully removes ALL generator tags wordpress spits out: the html files, the feeds etc.

Hope I’m not stepping on any toes here, but I thought it would make sense to make the different results of those approaches clear.

By: robuk

robuk — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:02:05 +0000

I’m thinking of making a plugin that would remove every trace of wp- from folders, files, content, etc
I think it’s bs that wordpress has to leave it’s mark everywhere.
It’s not too difficult, all one needs is a handy find & replace tool.

wp-content becomes content/, wp-admin becomes admin/ wp-settings become settings, etc

there’s 4 files that have a $wp- you leave those alone the rest remove.

I call this a wp-deep-cleaning

There’s no trace of wordpress in my install (horay)

By: John Crumpton

John Crumpton — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:38:11 +0000

Or simply add

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

into your themese function.php file

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By: V.C

V.C — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:27:45 +0000

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’);

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By: codestyling

codestyling — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:49:23 +0000

I think, it’s possible to coexist. And even if the robots try to do bad things. My tests with special handling of bad bots or attacks shows, that i can recycle those attacks to work as extended cron jobs and doing as long maintain work as the PHP runtime allows and send back only a thank you page. So also the bad one do reasonable things

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:40:20 +0000

True. I wonder if it’s worth trying to defeat the poorly-done robots. And are there poorly-done robots than can be defeated with this technique?

In addition, can man and robot ever learn to peacefully coexist?

By: codestyling

codestyling — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:34:49 +0000

If i inspect this page html content and robots can do too, i will find path parts like wp-include or wp-content. This indicates WP is been used.
Digging deeper by inspectation of reponse header you will find:
X-Pingback http://themeshaper.com/xmlrpc.php
This indicates WP version >= 2.5.0 because this first was sent at this one.
If this header field is missing, WP is <= 2.3.3.
I think, it has a limited worth to cloak the version. Well done robots will used several indications to detect the right wp version.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:08:59 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, John.

By: John

John — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:45:27 +0000

Thought I'd mention that the option to hide the WordPress version number (in feeds as well as in the header) is also available in the WordPress Tweaks plugin.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:18:35 +0000

If people are looking for WordPress sites to attack and you're not advertising that your site runs on WordPress … That's basically it.