Within each HTML page that is generated by Joomla is included a meta tag:
<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content
Management" />
First of all, I love Joomla. I use it since 2005 when a group of Mambo developers (the core team) left Mambo and started Joomla .
So I am really big Joomla fan. But I think this is not the best way to advertise that my site is realized with the Joomla framework. So I removed this meta tag.
If you also want to remove it, you can do it manually or with an extension.
Manual ways
I know two manual ways:
1, In your template, add the following line above the <head> tag:
<?php $this->setGenerator('Anything or leave empty'); ?>
Done! Note, if you change your template add this line to the new template.
2, Edit the core joomla file. Open /libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php and find the following line (around line 83-84):
$strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="'.$document->
getGenerator().'" />'.$lnEnd;
//$strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="'.$document->
getGenerator().'" />'.$lnEnd;
Done! Note, this change will be lost if you upgrade Joomla.
Ways with extensions
Various Joomla extensions do the work instead of you. My favourite is sh404sef.
But Tag Meta or SEO/SEF Patch also does the work.
