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[vipcory Friend vipcoryJoin date: June 2011Posts: 84Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#177115

I read many different ways of doing this… does anyone know the right way to do it for j2.5?

remove the entire tag:
meta name=”generator” content=”Joomla! – Open Source Content Management”

thanks

[Saguaros Moderator SaguarosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 31405Downloads:237Uploads:471 Thanks: 845 Thanked: 5346 times in 4964 posts]

#453386

Hi vipcory,

There are two ways you can do it:

1. The easy way is: go to Extensions >> Template Manager open your default template >> Edit main page template

it will open index.php file:

// no direct access
JFactory::getDocument()->setGenerator('Your own words or leave it empty'); <<< you add this line
defined ( '_JEXEC' ) or die ( 'Restricted access' );
<?php $this->setGenerator('Your own words or leave it empty'); ?>

2. The second way will completely remove the generator meta tag from Joomla:

Open /libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php with your favor editor

Search for meta name=”generator” and you will see:

if ($generator)
{
$buffer .= $tab . '<meta name="generator" content="' . htmlspecialchars($generator) . '" />' . $lnEnd; <<< add // to the beginning of this line
}

Save and clean cache.
Hope this helps!

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[tim_aus Friend tim_ausJoin date: October 2010Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3]

#491240

I have the ja-university theme and have tried the second way and it doesn’t work for me, I added
// if ($generator)

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#491652

Hi tim_aus,

Try to add that comment for code line inside the if. It look like:

// $buffer .= $tab . ‘<meta name=”generator” content=”‘ . htmlspecialchars($generator) . ‘” />’ . $lnEnd;

Regards

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#491858

Hi Saguaros,

Thanks that worked!

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