Yesterday I showed you how to remove two useless tags from your WordPress head section. Today we’ll remove a tag that could expose your site by revealing which WordPress version you are running. This tag used to be simple to remove but WordPress has moved it from the template to the core.

Here’s how to remove it:

• Login to your WordPress admin panel
• Navigate to Design > Theme Editor and click Theme Functions (functions.php)
• Just before the closing ?> tag add this

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

• Click Update File

Done!

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Here I’ll show you how to remove the EditURI and wlwmanifest links from the head section of your WordPress blog. These links are only necessary if you use or plan to use Windows Live Writer. Otherwise these 2 lines added to your blog header since WordPress 2.3.1 and above are useless.  

<link rel=”EditURI” type=”application/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=”http://mysite/xmlrpc.php?rsd” />

<link rel=”wlwmanifest” type=”application/wlwmanifest+xml” href=”http://mysite/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml” />

After removal your pages will load faster. Here’s how to do it:

• Login to your WordPress panel
• Navigate to Appearance > Editor
• Click Theme Functions (functions.php)
• Add the following code to the end of the file. Right before the closing <?php } ?> or ?> tags:

add_action(‘init’, ‘remheadlink’);
function remheadlink() {
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’);
}

• Click Update File

Done!

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