Funny thing happened. I tried out your code as a plugin and it triggered the “Update to 2.5.1 Now” alert in my Admin. I had to chuckle at that one, you could really mess with someone’s unsuspecting mind that way.

yes, you can put that in a file with a basic plugin header, and it will do you just fine. you can also put it in your theme’s functions.php

About Adam’s (Hey Adam) code change, would that be worth using in the plugin? And if it would, does it have to be changed any? One of these days I’ll be PHP savvy enough to answer these questions myself but right now, I’m stuck with asking.

Yours actually is much more thorough with cleaning the version number out and might be a more Automattic-friendly way of going about things.

// empty the wordpress version information
add_action("init","bs_wp_noversion",1);
function bs_wp_noversion() {
	global $wp_version;
	$wp_version = "";
}

I don’t mind having a wordpress generator link, but the version isn’t something that should be shared.

Further to the discussion here, over the source display of WordPress version, imposed on users of the default install of WordPress 2.5 – a plugin to regain a little control.
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