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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Removing a WordPress version from the theme files


By default, WordPress adds a meta tag in your blog header containing the WordPress version you're using. This is used by the WordPress team to obtain stats about version usage.

The problem is that some older versions of WordPress contain security holes. Imagine that you're using an older WordPress version and a hacker wants to hack your blog. He looks in your blog source, finds the meta tag, and discovers that you're using a WordPress version that contains a security problem. You've guessed it right! The hacker can now easily destroy your blog.

Getting ready

This meta tag may be useful to the WordPress team, but for you and your blog, it is absolutely unnecessary. You can get rid of it without losing any functionality.

How to do it...

  1. Open the functions.php file from your theme. If that file doesn't exist, then create it.

  2. Enter the following code inside the functions.php file:

    add_filter( 'the_generator', create_function('$a', "return null;"));...