Author meta tag is already disable from global configuration

Hello Eduardo G.

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For example, check this source code: https://imgur.com/a/aRzmc2m

There you can see my admin username is shown as article author meta tag. I dont want to disclosure it, neither the time I publish or modify my website pages

Please share the page link on where I can check it on the source code.

Sure, I'm sharing a development URL

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Sure, thanks for looking into this

Code is in components/com_sppagebuilder/views/page/view.html.php

$this->document->addCustomTag('<meta property="article:author" content="' . $this->item->author_name . '"/>');
$this->document->addCustomTag('<meta property="article:published_time" content="' . $this->item->created_on . '"/>');
$this->document->addCustomTag('<meta property="article:modified_time" content="' . $this->item->modified . '"/>');
$this->document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:locale" content="' . $language . '" />');

You have found the location. You can remove those lines. But it will be added when you update SP Page Builder.

If I may...

1. What is relation with "privacy and security" if we talk about article:published_time & article:modified_time ?? I guess, it was just bigger sample of code, right.
2. About Author I agree that users should have option to change that value. By now it's possible only from PHPMyAdmin (DB Editor). It was added to wish list even before your post.

BTW

Using "secretadmin" as user name never was a clever idea, it's a recovery username from Joomla Guide.

1. Privacy: nobody needs to know when I create or update a page in my website. you're publishing information about when I work on the website, which is not needed. I choose the information I want to display, not you.
2. Security. Admin username disclosure, why? No need to change it, just need to enable/disable it. It needs to be done in a proper way and stop hacking. Also optional should be using the user title, not the username.

Every option that disclosures information should be optional, as easy as that.

BTW

Using "secretadmin" as user name is just a sample for this post :-/

ad 1) It was created for SEO purposes, Google like it. It's not related to privacy, or you're confusing terms.

ad 2) In Articles you have author since J1.0.0 and no concerns. We will add option to change Author name to Custom Name (in near future) and this should solve the problem, so you would be able use your real first name ("Eduardo") or author of content ("AI"), and no more "secretadmin" ;p

Yes, I know... but now is not.

By now we both have to wait for implemenation of those changes. Or you can cut if off.

Finally, is there still no solution to this question? Where can I turn this option off? Without having to start deleting codes that will be lost after an update.

THX!

Hi Paul,

I have the same problem.

In new SPPB you can change author name to different one. Search that in Page Settings > SEO > AUthor (at the bottom). If no value, default user name is used. But you can use , for example, 0.0 or just "editor"