[Secure Wordpress] Remove Meta Tags From Header.php

Securing your blog/site is one of the most important things and it should be done in priority basis. At present most of the webmasters run their site on CMS. Running a website on CMS is good because they are search engine friendly and provides a lot of support from the community. At present the most popular CMS is wordpress and all of us know that, wordpress is not so secure. We all know that none of the software are100% secured. But by adopting certain measures we can increase the security and decrease the number of chances being hacked.

We all are familiar with Wordpress and all of them using certain themes some of them using free themes and some of them using premium themes. You couldn’t imagine that by using these themes you are inviting hackers to hack your blog how? If you have ever opened header.php in your theme/template you find an HTML tag in it like this:

<meta content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /><!-- leave this for stats -->

This is the one thing that I do not want to show and allow a hacker to easily find vulnerability in my Wordpress blog. This HTML tag tells everyone that “what version of wordpress you are using” how? If you view the source code of the blog by right clicking on that page you can find the HTML tag like this:

<meta content="WordPress 2.9.1" />

The hacker can clearly sees that what version of wordpress you are using. To avoid exposing of wordpress version, it is good to remove the Meta tag. Just open header.php file and look for the code:

<meta content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /><!-- leave this for stats -->

Now delete the line and save it. This is one of the Meta tags which you have to remove from your theme/template because this Meta tag shows what version of wordpress you are using.

Now deleting this Meta tag from your wordpress blog is not going to make your blog hack proof, but it will make something harder for hacker. This information can be used by hackers to pinpoint which version of wordpress you are using, and can help them find an exploit to start hacking your website. So prevent them from viewing your wordpress version which you are using.

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