Comments on: WordPress Tip: Always Remove the WordPress Version Code

By: ronidhbd

ronidhbd — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:28:01 +0000

The wordpres plugins don’t update. The server end is OK. File permission is OK. Even when i undo the taken security steps still the wp plugins don’t update. Whats the solutions? Anyone can help?
N.B.: The host support guy says, the server configuration is OK.

By: FlexiThemes

FlexiThemes — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:36:55 +0000

Just and below to your theme’s functions.php
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

By: Shahab khan

Shahab khan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:53:38 +0000

Though i have been blogging for the past one year. But i’ve just come to know about this.

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:59:41 +0000

Thanks, this woke me up to the whole issue of upgrades. I am still using WP 2.0 and I wanted to add Kontera links to my WP blogs. They gave me a WP plugin I can use to populate their ads throughout all posts but not before I upgrade.

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:04:27 +0000

@ Lea – This changed after this post was published with a later release of WordPress. See the above comments for an explanation!

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:02:54 +0000

Well, I’ve tried all the above methods for removing traces of my WordPress version from public viewing and none have worked.

I used a FireFox plugin for website info which leads to http://www.wmtips.com/tools/info/ and they still have my current WordPress version listed under “generator.”

I removed the generator/generated string from my theme header, removed WordPress from my footer, protected my version.php, tried

adding to functions.php

and

@global string $wp_version
*/
$wp_version = ‘(version removed for security)’;

Yet the above website still displays my current WordPress version.

By: jomammy

jomammy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:25:39 +0000

Do not remove your wp_head action!
Yes the latest versions of wordpress do add the version to the page via the wp_head call in numerous locations but this makes it easy to remove the version. Look in wp-includes/version.php and change the version number there and it will propogate throughout the system because all calls to bloginfo(‘version’) read from this string in this file.

I change mine to:
/**
* The WordPress version string
*
* @global string $wp_version
*/
$wp_version = ‘(version removed for security)’;

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