WordPress has an HTML meta generation tag that shows that your website is running WordPress and which version exactly.
If you right-click on this page and choose View Source, you can find this tag by searching for “generator” in the source code.
You should see something similar to:
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 6.0.3″ />
This code may also be used to detect your software by bots or programs like WPScan and BuiltWith, which poses a security concern. Today, there are dozens of various ways to tell if a website is powered by WordPress, so if someone really wants it bad enough, he will eventually discover it. 🙂
To disable the meta generator tag from WordPress simply add the following to your active theme functions.php file:
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');
If you want to remove this and many more meta generation tags from WordPress check this free plugin:
