How to Remove WordPress Version Number

Revelling your WordPress version number to all may make you an easy target for version-targeted attacks. So in this article, I am going to show you how to remove WordPress version number. We can remove WordPress version number in 3 ways 1 By using a WordPress plugin 2 By editing “Generator Meta” Tag 3 By using version removal function Note:- Do not make any changes in any of the functions if you are not sure of what you are doing.

By using a WordPress plugin

1. Login into your wordpress dashboard and go to Plugins.

2. Click “Add New“, search for “WP-Hardening plugin” and click on Install Now button. 3. Click “Activate” to activate the plugin. 4. After activating the plugin, go to “Security Fixers” tab and then look for “Disable Information Disclosure & Remove Meta information” 5. Toggle the switch next to “Hide version number” and that’s all.

By editing Generator Meta Tag

If you are confident of your coding skills, you can remove the WordPress number manually from the generator meta tag: 1 Login into your control panel 2 Navigate to “File Manager”. 3 Select your domain and go to its Public_html directory 4 Go to “wp-content/themes” directory. 5 Find a file name functions.php under your activated theme and add the following line of code at the bottom.

remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator')

By using version removal function

Alternatively, we can remove the WordPress version by using “removal function”. Follow the steps-1 to Steep-5 given above, edit your function.php file and paste the following code at the bottom.

function remove_version_info()
{
  return '';
}
add_filter('the_generator', 'remove_version_info');