{"id":9289,"date":"2023-12-13T04:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T04:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youstable.com\/blog\/?post_type=manual_kb&p=9289"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:47:40","slug":"how-to-remove-wordpress-version-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youstable.com\/blog\/how-to-remove-wordpress-version-number","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove WordPress Version Number"},"content":{"rendered":"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.\n\nWe can remove WordPress version number in 3 ways\n\n1 By using a WordPress plugin\n\n2 By editing “Generator Meta” Tag<\/span>\n\n3 By using version removal function<\/span>\n\nNote:- Do not make any changes in any of the functions if you are not sure of what you are doing.<\/strong><\/em>\n

By using a WordPress plugin<\/h2>\n
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  1. Login into your wordpress dashboard and go to Plugins<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
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    \"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2. Click “Add New<\/strong>“, search for “WP-Hardening plugin<\/strong>” and click on Install Now<\/strong> button.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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    \"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n3. Click “Activate<\/strong>” to activate the plugin.\n\n\n
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    \"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. After activating the plugin, go to “Security Fixers” <\/strong>tab and then look for “Disable Information Disclosure & Remove Meta information<\/strong>”\n\n5. Toggle the switch next to \u201cHide version number<\/strong>\u201d and that’s all.\n\n\n
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    By editing Generator Meta Tag<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are confident of your coding skills, you can remove the WordPress number manually from the generator meta tag:\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Login into your control panel\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Navigate to “File Manager”.\n\n\n\n\n\n3 Select your domain and go to its Public_html directory\n\n\n\n\n\n4 Go to “wp-content\/themes” directory.\n\n\n\n\n\n5 Find a file name functions.php<\/strong> under your activated theme and add the following line of code at the bottom.\n\n\n\n\n
    remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator')<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    By using version removal function<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nAlternatively, we can remove the WordPress version by using “removal function”<\/strong>.\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow the steps-1 to Steep-5 given above, edit your function.php file and paste the following code at the bottom.\n\n<\/code>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    function remove_version_info()\n{\n  return '';\n}\nadd_filter('the_generator', 'remove_version_info');<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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