wp-includes/general-template.php:5092Displays the XHTML generator that is generated on the wp_head hook.
One hook fires while wp_generator() runs, in this order:
Filters the output of the XHTML generator tag.
function wp_generator() { /** * Filters the output of the XHTML generator tag. * * @since 2.5.0 * * @param string $generator_type The XHTML generator. */ the_generator( apply_filters( 'wp_generator_type', 'xhtml' ) );}Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/general-template.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.