by kat82 » 17 Oct 2018, 11:03 By default, WordPress content management system sites are meant to display all the blog or site related information in the header section. This means that once anyone access your website site source code, it is very easy for him or her to know most of your important site details and which can be used for bad things for example site hacks and or comment spam and etc.
In this tutorial, I am sharing with you how you can get rid of the above by way of cleaning up your site header section so that even those who wish to know details of your site to use them for their bad acts, they are not in position to do since they will never find any details with regard.
This tutorials will show you the kind of information you will likely remove if you wish so and how to go about the entire processing using a simple plugin which is known as WP Head Cleanup.. With this plugin, you are able to do almost all of the above mentioned by way of installing, activating, selecting what you want to disable, saving and having a cleaner WordPress.
What is WP Head Cleanup?
WP Head Cleanup is a WordPress plugin by Nablasol. The plugin is freely available for download from the WordPress plugins repository.
What kind of information can you remove from your WordPress?
With this plugin, you are able to remove things like Websites rss link, WordPress generator tag, feed links, index rel links, standard and extra feed links, post relational links, parent post link, previous and next links, WordPress version, shot links of the page and etc.
How to install WP Head Cleanup plugin.
In order to install this great plugin, you need to first download it from the repository manually, and or automatically by logging into your WordPress site, going to plugins, searching for ‘WP Head Cleanup”, downloading, installing and activating.
How to activate the different features of the plugin?
Now that you have installed the plugin, the next step is to navigate to settings and clicking on WP Head Cleanup. You will see a list of items you are supposed to either tick to activate or untick to deactivate. That way you are able to select which ones exactly you are supposed to activate according to what you wish or want.
I personally never worry more on my site when it comes to hackers viewing all my info. I always ensure that such options like the WordPress tag generator are disabled from the page source code. This will imply that even after trying to access it, they can never know the version am using and which makes it a bit complicated when it comes to deploying their attack systems on my site.
If you have never tried this, then you should and add it as your additional security for your site. The next time you think about a list of plugins you must use, you shouldn’t avoid this.
