Title: How to Remove Tag from Source Code?
Last modified: February 14, 2019

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# How to Remove Tag from Source Code?

 *  Resolved [matthewseligman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewseligman/)
 * (@matthewseligman)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-tag-from-source-code/)
 * Is anyone aware of how to remove the Tag from the source code?
    <!– This site
   uses the Google Analytics by MonsterInsights plugin v7.4.2 – Using Analytics 
   tracking – [https://www.monsterinsights.com/](https://www.monsterinsights.com/)–
   >
 * It’s commonly not good practice to state the versions of plugins installed in
   source code as if there are any bugs the attacker searches for these snippets
   of code to abuse.

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 *  Plugin Author [chriscct7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscct7/)
 * (@chriscct7)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-tag-from-source-code/#post-11207081)
 * Given our plugin uses a minified js tracking file whose contents change on every
   release it’d be:
    A) absolutely trivial to derive the version installed B) no
   automated system actually checks the versions before trying to run exploits, 
   they just run them and if it works it works, and if not they move on
 * -Chris
 *  Thread Starter [matthewseligman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewseligman/)
 * (@matthewseligman)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-tag-from-source-code/#post-11207150)
 * Hi Chris,
 * A) I don’t consider your branding in our source code Trivial and I wish to remove
   it.
 * B) There are tons of automated tools that can search WordPress Version, WordPress
   Plugins and here’s one for example: [https://nerdydata.com/search?query=MonsterInsights](https://nerdydata.com/search?query=MonsterInsights)
 * That simple query shows a 54 out of the 471,566 sites found using the plugin.
   The site searches by Source Code so it’s finding the word MonsterInsights in 
   the source and majority of the mentions are related to that Tag. Some are related
   to inline JS.
 * Most attackers search for the Plugin and Version number so I’m mainly trying 
   to remove the Tag to avoid that.
 * Note: I never considered this resolved, the Plugin Author just chose it wasn’t
   worth solving.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [matthewseligman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewseligman/).

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## Tags

 * [remove tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remove-tag/)
 * [source-code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/source-code/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [matthewseligman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewseligman/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-tag-from-source-code/#post-11207150)
 * Status: resolved