How Do I Delete a Meta Tag? I Can't Find It

  • Here is the situation: On my Google Search Console a new “owner” has been added and verified. I did not do it. I am the only owner, and verified via an html file on my server which is one of the two ways to verify. The unauthorized person is verified via the other method, a meta tag. When I look at my homepage source code, in the head area I see this tag. In order to un-verify them I need to remove the tag. But I cannot find where the tag is in order to delete it.

    I searched other sites and google, and asked on the Search Console forum and they say it should be in the header.php or functions.php file – but there are no tags in there. Someone said it may be obfuscated too, but there is no base-64 or unknown text strings on these files. So I need to know where I can find this Meta name tag. I can’t find it anywhere. Or is there a Plug-in that will do it for me – show me all meta tags and let me edit them?

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  • Try disabling all plug-ins and see if it goes away to see if it’s in there somewhere. Change to the default Twenty Fifteen theme to see if it’s somewhere in the theme.

    That would help narrow it down I think.

    Thread Starter AV8NLVR

    (@av8nlvr)

    Ok. I just tried that. All plugins, off. Different theme. Same source code – its still there.

    @av8nlvr post your site address

    Thread Starter AV8NLVR

    (@av8nlvr)

    It is flightlineaviationmedia.com

    The verification code is at line 101 when viewing page source in notepad.

    Could you please tell me, which meta tag you want to delete

    Thread Starter AV8NLVR

    (@av8nlvr)

    it is this one:

    <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”qzrFwFF8mXeETl4rG95lSrnjnkCB6L9XLuY_vjBjBrY” />

    That is the tag for the user on my Google Search Console who should not be a verified owner and I, as the verified owner, am trying to remove. My own verification is not done with a tag.

    See if these works for you –
    1. How to remove a Meta Tag
    2. How to remove meta tags

    Thread Starter AV8NLVR

    (@av8nlvr)

    That’s not going to work. That first link is using a different theme; my files are not the same. I don’t understand how to write a code similar to that for mine.

    Seems to me that there has to be somewhere within this site that is telling it to add that meta tag in the head.

    Thread Starter AV8NLVR

    (@av8nlvr)

    Something I just thought of. Could I remove it with a remove_action command like this:

    remove_action(‘google-site-verification’);

    “google-site-verification” is the name of the meta tag as I posted in reply 7.

    Would this work? (or is there a better way?)

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