Hide WordPress Version Number

Administrator

There is always a time where you have to wait before you update your live site, but what happens during that time where you are actually exposed to a vulnerability already discovered and released?

One of your options is to hide the WordPress version number (not the actual solution but it helps as your site won't come out on google search via WordPress version number)

Here's how you can do this:
Add the following function to you functions.php

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

Administrator

Alternative way to achieve the same result

// remove WordPress version from <head>
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');

// remove version from <rss>
add_filter('the_generator', '__return_empty_string');

// remove version from scripts and styles
function collectiveray_remove_version_scripts_styles($src) {
if (strpos($src, 'ver=')) {
$src = remove_query_arg('ver', $src);
}
return $src;
}
add_filter('style_loader_src', 'collectiveray_remove_version_scripts_styles', 9999);
add_filter('script_loader_src', 'collectiveray_remove_version_scripts_styles', 9999);