Remove <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.5″ />

I will verify this works with 2.7 as well! I had the same error as ethoslight but found out it was because of extra spaces after the ?> in my php. Deleting the extra space fixed my problem! Thanks for this thread!

Okay I am using WordPress 2.7 along with Deepstack theme and I tried adding the following codes to my theme’s functions.php:

remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');

and I also tried:

<?php remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); 

// Remove Windows Live Writer link in header
// Do Not do this if you use it
remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');
remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link'); 

// Remove WP version info
function hide_wp_vers()
{
    return '';
} // end hide_wp_vers function

add_filter('the_generator','hide_wp_vers');
?>

But both didn’t do anything, I still get the following line when I look at the source of my page:

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.7" />

Can someone please help me out? It should be hidden with the previous mentioned code parts, right? :S

Can’t I just change the header.php (from the theme)?

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />

If I would change that, that wouldn’t result in nasty problems right?

Fixed it as described above.

Found this…

function rm_generator_filter() { return ''; }

if (function_exists('add_filter')) {
  $types = array('html', 'xhtml', 'atom', 'rss2', /*'rdf',*/ 'comment', 'export');

  foreach ($types as $type)
    add_filter('get_the_generator_'.$type, 'rm_generator_filter');
}

More @ https://www.christianschenk.org/blog/removing-wordpress-generator-meta-tag-completely/comment-page-1/#comment-4917