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Joomla How To Change Generator Meta Tags
Joomla Basics - First Steps
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When you first install Joomla 1.5 and view your page source of your newly installed site you will notice that the default settings are:

Joomla 1.5 Meta Tag Generator

You can easily amend the keywords meta tags and the description meta tags in global configuration but there is no where in the Joomla control panel to change the Generator meta tags, meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management"> to whatever you wish.

This is important as you don't want search engines picking up your site with Joomla meta tags especially if your site doesn't have anything to do with Joomla!

To change this you need to have access to your cpanel, go into your template folder and find the "index.php" file.  If the file has "555" permissions then you need to change this to "755" so that you can actually edit the code.  Once you have changed the permissions you can click on the file, or tick the file and press edit to edit the file.

All you need to do is put a little bit of code in between the <head> and </head> tags.  That code is:

<?php $this->setGenerator(' '); ?>

Where you can put anything you wish between the ' ' marks.  I usually just put it before the </head> tag like below.

Edited Generator meta tag on Joomla 1.5

all you need to do now is save the file and check that it's changed properly.  Very easy but very annoying when you don't know where to look to change it!

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