How to remove meta generator in Joomla 1.7 and 2.5?
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:52 am
If you view your page source in a Joomla powered site, you will notice that there is a line as below.
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It is sometimes required to remove this meta element and here is how you could do that.
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<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.7 - Open Source Content Management" />Code: Select all
<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 2.5 - Open Source Content Management" />- Open file /libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php.
- Notice the following line around line number 91 or 92
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$buffer .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="'.htmlspecialchars($document->getGenerator()).'" />'.$lnEnd; - Comment this out as below,
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//$buffer .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="'.htmlspecialchars($document->getGenerator()).'" />'.$lnEnd;