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[SmartCrawl Pro] Remove "SEO meta tags powered by SmartCrawl" HTML comments

Is there a way to remove the HTML comments added to the source by SmartCrawl, without modifying the plugin?

<!-- SEO meta tags powered by SmartCrawl https://wpmudev.com/project/smartcrawl-wordpress-seo/ -->

I know there are some HTML minification plugins that will do it, but I am talking about specifically stopping that comment from being added. While it would be totally fair for a free plugin to give itself a plug in the comments… when I am licensing something, I feel like I deserve to remove such comments if I want.

Thanks!

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:40:44
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  • Ash
    • Code Norris

    Hello James

    You can’t exactly remove that comment but you can rebrand it. That means you can change the comment to:

    <!-- SEO meta tags powered by Your Company -->

    To do that, please add the following code in wp-config.php:

    define( 'SMARTCRAWL_PROJECT_TITLE', 'Your Company' );

    Please add the line before “/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */” line.

    Hope it helps! Please feel free to ask more questions if you have any.

    Have a nice day!

    Cheers,

    Ash

  • PowerQuest
    • Code Wrangler

    Yep, agreed, this should be stopped and removed completely in my opinion too.

    We actually pay for that the WPMUDEV is white labeled and should be expected as such.

    Also it is bad practice to use your customers servers to run your own free SEO campaign to generate more traffic to WPMUDEV’s website off customers servers/use customers resources without specific permission. This is something the we should be asked about when installing the plugins if we grant that or not.

    I don’t like to work for free and I’m certain that so does no one else.If we were paid for this then fine, it might be something to consider, but that it not the case.

    At least this is my cents on this subject.

    Kind regards
    PowerQuest.