Site-kit-wp: Allow programmatic removal of Site Kit's meta tag

[ernee]

Currently the meta tag placed by Site Kit in a website's source code cannot be accessed for removal by remove_action due to an anonymous function. Per a request in the forums, there are use cases/ preferences to not have it.

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[WebFactoryLtd]

Please move it to a "normal" function so we can remove_action. Thank you.

[avegao]

I find it absurd to see the version of the plugins in a meta tag. Why give clues to the enemy?

[ingeniumdesign]

the remove part dont work:
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'display_site_kit_meta' );

[herbie4]

How to taget the site kit metatag in a remove action?

I tried this, but it doesn't work.
remove_action('wp_head', array( \Google\Site_Kit\Plugin::get_instance(), 'display_site_kit_meta' ), 999 );

Any ideas...?

[laurentdebricon]

Why give clues to the enemy? !!!

[L-X-T]

Yeah, please fix this!

[KeesCBakker]

Any updates on this?

[herbie4]

As this is still not resolved...
Here is a temporary fix to mask the version number. Just add this to wp-config.php

`
// temp fix to hide Google site kit version number

define('GOOGLESITEKIT_VERSION', 'none');`

[grzegorz-janoszka]

Can we please have it fixed?

[L-X-T]

Hello, is anybody reading this issues at all? 11 months since we reported this issue and still not fixed?

Come on Googlers, what's up?