Sunday, March 15, 2009

Removing meta tag generator in joomla 1.0.X


If you use joomla CMS, and your joomla site build instantly from fantastico menu in your hosting server, Then Joomla produces some meta tags by default, as a sample, just open up your site in your favourite browser (ex. mozilla) then, right click and view page source , then you will find this meta tag :

<title>your title site</title>

<meta name="description" content="your description sites" />

<meta name="keywords" content="your keyword sites" />

<meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." />


you can change Title, Descriptions, Keywords via administrator pages, but you can't change generator meta tag, well not really..

Here is the way to remove / edit your meta tag Generator by joomla

All you have to do is open file "version.php" in "includes" directory,
and Edit These Lines :

var $PRODUCT = 'Joomla!';

var $COPYRIGHT = "Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.";

Save the file, and refresh your site. The line of Meta tag generator Joomla , should now be Changed.