# Can the meta tags added to every Confluence page be safely removed?

**URL:** <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/can-the-meta-tags-added-to-every-confluence-page-be-safely-removed/32339>\
**Category:** Confluence Server\
**Tags:** custom-theme\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/can-the-meta-tags-added-to-every-confluence-page-be-safely-removed/32339 "2019-10-03T21:45:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![webadmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@webadmin](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/webadmin)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/can-the-meta-tags-added-to-every-confluence-page-be-safely-removed/32339/1 "2019-10-03T21:45:02Z")

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Building a custom theme, and there are a LOT of meta tags that Confluence adds in the header (along with a lot of checks to see if those properties exist). Can those be safely removed, or does the application use those for specific functions?