Title: Remove WP Generator Meta Tag
Author: ruudkok
Published: <strong>December 5, 2010</strong>
Last modified: November 10, 2022

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Remove WP Generator Meta Tag

 By [ruudkok](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruudkok/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/)

## Description

Use this plugin to hide your WordPress version from others. If you don’t update 
WordPress directly every time a new version is released, you’re not able to brag
about it. To prevent hackers hackers from finding out you’re on an older WordPress
version to easily, you might as well install this little plugin. That way the generator
meta tag with your WordPress version won’t be shown.

## Installation

 1. Upload `rk-remove-generator-tag.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Remove WP Generator Meta Tag” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ ruudkok ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruudkok/)

[Translate “Remove WP Generator Meta Tag” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **3 years ago**
 *  Active installations **80+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.1.10**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [generator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/generator/)[meta](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/meta/)
   [remove](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/remove/)[security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ ruudkok ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruudkok/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-wp-generator-meta-tag/)

## Donate

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