{"id":120,"date":"2010-05-18T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gator4228.temp.domains\/~vasiljevski\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2023-04-07T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T21:17:01","slug":"change-meta-generator-tag-in-joomla-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vasiljevski.com\/blog\/webdev\/joomla\/change-meta-generator-tag-in-joomla-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Change meta generator tag in Joomla 1.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many solutions that involve  editing the Joomla Core files. This is bad idea, because you will have to do this every time you upgrade Joomla to a new version.  In general changing Joomla core files is not recommended, and you should avoid it as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Solution that I find to be much better and cleaner is just to add :<\/p>\n\n\n

<?php\n$this->setGenerator('Text you want to display in generator tag');\n?><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n
before <head> tag in your template index.php file.<\/p>\n
This way you can define your own generator, or you could leave the text empty.<\/p>\n
Note: Don’t remove or edit this tag if you don’t have the strong reason to do so.\u00a0 We should all support Joomla, that is the only way Joomla will keep being great CMS as it is now \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are many solutions that involve  editing the Joomla Core files. This is bad idea, because you will have to do this every time you upgrade Joomla to a new version.  In general changing Joomla core files is not recommended, and you should avoid it as much as possible. Solution that I find to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[24,43,26,22,25],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","tag-change","tag-joomla","tag-joomla-generator-meta-tag","tag-meta-tag","tag-remove","content","has-not-featured-image"],"yoast_head":"\nChange meta generator tag in Joomla 1.5 - Vasiljevski Nikola<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vasiljevski.com\/blog\/webdev\/joomla\/change-meta-generator-tag-in-joomla-1-5\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Change meta generator tag in Joomla 1.5 - Vasiljevski Nikola\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are many solutions that involve  editing the Joomla Core files. 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