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Includes how to rename wp-content, rename wp-admin, andremove the generator tag from WordPress.

Many people, particularly designers and web engineers for high-profiles websites, do not want users to know that they are running WordPress for their websites. For the sake of seeming like a more “hardcore” coder who doesn’t need a pre-built CMS (like, it kind of sucks when you find out that Facebook actually runs on WordPress :O ), or just for security reasons; it is a shame that it is so difficult to change the wp-content and wp-admin folder names very easily through the WordPress admin. This little tutorial will teach you how to do it in any case.

Just for the record, I don’t believe that it’s really possible, or even worthwhile to attempt, completely hiding that you use WordPress for your sites. You can do the stuff I instruct here so that the typical pretentious amateur who tries to “out” you, or hack your site, runs into some challenges, but there will always be a way find out what CMS you use if someone is dedicated enough. If you use WordPress, you use WordPress. This tutorial will change obvious evidence or indications of it in your source-code, effectively removing WordPress info from your site.

Open up the file called wp-config in your “root” directory, and just before the last line (something about require_once), add:

define('WP_CONTENT_FOLDERNAME', 'wp-content');
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', ABSPATH . WP_CONTENT_FOLDERNAME );
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://domain.ext/'.WP_CONTENT_FOLDERNAME); 
define('WP_PLUGIN_DIR', WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins' );
define('WP_PLUGIN_URL', WP_CONTENT_URL.'/plugins');

Now you must change “domain.ext” to whatever is your domain – for me, that is “pythoughts.com”. Then, you can change “wp-content” to whatever you want your content file to be. I like to use “media”, because I think that’s both relevant and quite unique, but obviously this is your prerogative.

Make sure that everything still works, especially your plugins. If your plugins do not work after this, you need to edit them – you can do this in the WordPress admin by looking around in the Plugins page. Obviously what needs to change is any references to “wp-content”.

Edit from Andrew (see comments) – For WordPress v3.13: “What I did is edit the file default-constants.php located in /wp-includes/, replacing all “wp-content” to my desired folder name (need to rename the folder of course), and all works like a charm.”

There are two ways to do this. The long way is to hack your .htaccess file to do redirections, etc. and block out direct access to login.php. The easier method is to install and very cool little plugin, made by Devbits, called “Stealth-login”. I use this plugin on some of my sites, and it works! Which is fantastic.

So you can download that here.

The bit of code that you want for this is simple:

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

There are a few places you can do this, but I would recommend adding it to thefunctions.php file in your theme. So open that up, make sure that you have your

And that is that.

Please let me know if A) this was useful to you, B) You know of any plugin that does all of this stuff, or C) You think that I should make a plugin that does all of this automatically. You should also of course tell me if you perceive a danger is doing this, or if you think that there is a more effective method. Or if you have any questions.

Otherwise, thank you for your time 

Google's self-driven cars will soon be appearing on Nevada roads after the state's Department of Motor Vehicles approved on Monday the nation's first autonomous vehicle license.

The move came after officials rode along on drives on highways, in Carson City neighborhoods and along the famous Las Vegas Strip, the Nevada DMV said in a statement.

The Nevada legislature last year authorized self-driven cars for the state's roads, the first such law in the United States. That law went into effect on March 1, 2012.

Google's self-driven cars rely on video cameras, radar sensors, lasers, and a database of information collected from manually driven cars to help navigate, according to the company.

The DMV licensed a Toyota Prius that Google modified with its experimental driver-less technology, developed by Stanford professor and Google Vice President Sebastian Thrun.

Google's self-driving cars have crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and driven along the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway, according to the company.

Autonomous vehicles are the "car of the future," Nevada DMV director Bruce Breslow said in a statement. The state also has plans to eventually license autonomous vehicles owned by the members of the public, the DMV said.

Legislation to regulate autonomous cars is being considered in other states, including Google's home state of California.

"The vast majority of vehicle accidents are due to human error. Through the use of computers, sensors and other systems, an autonomous vehicle is capable of analyzing the driving environment more quickly and operating the vehicle more safely," California state Senator Alex Padilla said in March when he introduced that state's autonomous car legislation.

Other car companies are also seeking self-driven car licenses in Nevada, the DMV said.

Thanks to : techgig

South Korea-based LG Electronics is reportedly planning to give Google TV another try in the U.S. -- possibly as soon as this month.

According to Reuters, Ro Seogho, executive vice president of LG's TV business unit, told reporters in Seoul on Monday that U.S. consumers will be able to buy the TV based on Google's platform beginning the week of May 21.

LG's current Google TV offering in the LG G3 series, has received lukewarm reviewsand hasn't caught on with consumers. And while Google hopes Google TV will do for the TV market what Android did for the mobile market, it's been plagued with problems like high prices, low sales, and difficulty with program distribution.

According to Reuters, Ro Seogho, executive vice president of LG's TV business unit, told reporters in Seoul on Monday local time that U.S. consumers will be able to buy an update to the Google TV-based set beginning the week of May 21.

Seogho was referring to LG's G2 series, which was announced at January's Consumer Electronics Show. The TV -- soon to be available in 47-inch and 55-inch sizes for $1,600 and $2,100, respectively -- is LG's first line of Google TV-compatible televisions. But it's actually the first second-generation model, after Sony's 2011 GT1 series, which failed to generate excitement or sales among consumers.

Other first-generation Google TV offerings included Sony's Google TV-powered Blu-ray player and Logitech's Revue set-top box. The latter product met with disastrous sales, spurring financial problems that continue to plague Logitech.

Indeed, while Google initially had hopes of Google TV invading the TV market as Androiddid for with mobile, the product has so far appeared to be a dud. The LG G2 seems unlikely to reverse that trend, already earning a decidedly mixed review from CNET.

Features of Google TV include being able to use a smartphone as a remote control, searching the Internet on the TV while watching a show, and creating a home page with app launch icons and TV channels.

While the original Reuters story linked to above was vague on the product details, CNET has confirmed with LG representatives that Seogho was referring to the previously announced G2 product series described above.

CNET's John Falcone contributed to this report.

ZDNet Asia conducted an online survey between March 2011 and March 2012 to look into the pay packages Asia's IT professionals were receiving and related market trends.

The study polled a total of 945 respondents from various job functions varying from administrators and support to IT management and systems development, and across seven Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.

India contributed 508 participants to the survey. Of these, 176 of them had less than 5 years of working experience in the industry and 254 had between 5 and 10 years, while 78 had more than 10 years' worth of experience.

In terms of pay, those in IT management within the country's IT, Web and telecom sector head the top earners list with an average annual salary of just over 1 million rupees, trumping their counterparts in the legal and finance sector who earn 986,500 rupees a year.

In the following charts, INR denotes the Indian rupee.