Title: scanning for plugins
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# scanning for plugins

 *  Resolved [wclune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wclune/)
 * (@wclune)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scanning-for-plugins/)
 * Hi all, call me paranoid but last night i discovered a few websites that can 
   scan your WordPress site and tell you not only what version of WP your running
   but what theme and what plugins you have installed. Is there anyway of stopping
   a site from handing over that information?? The plugins part being something 
   that really bothers me.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scanning-for-plugins/#post-7014239)
 * Currently, we have a feature to hide the WordPress version number, but not the
   versions of other plugins or the theme. Some scans also look at public files 
   built into WordPress to determine the most likely version, so those may still
   find the WP version even if the version number doesn’t appear anywhere on the
   site.
 * Also, unfortunately, hiding some plugins could stop them from working properly
   since they may include styles/scripts that have to appear in the site’s HTML,
   and the theme generally includes a stylesheet which reveals the name of the theme
   directory.
 * -Matt R
 *  Thread Starter [wclune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wclune/)
 * (@wclune)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scanning-for-plugins/#post-7014240)
 * Matt Thank you for your reply, It is greatly appreciated! We have a customer 
   who is very concerned about keeping the “secrets” of their site a secret. I guess
   that is not possible.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scanning-for-plugins/#post-7014240)
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