Renaming the WP-Admin Area
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Overview
This guide will help you rename the WP-Admin URL of your WordPress blog.
There are many programmed bots and attacking software which assume the wp-admin URL to be http://yoursite.com/blog/wp-admin.
With Loginizer Security Pro its now possible to rename wp-admin to something different e.g. site-admin
You can rename the WP-Admin URL to anything of your choice.
NOTE : For this guide we will assume that the new name you want to set for wp-admin is site-admin
Adding entry in .htaccess
The following .htaccess needs to be added as per your blog type. If your blog is a WordPress Multi Site blog, please follow the multisite .htaccess guide.
Regular WordPress Blog (not multisite)
Your .htaccess before making changes will look something like this :
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase RELATIVE_URL/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . RELATIVE_URL/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
You should now change it to :
- BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase RELATIVE_URL/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteRule ^site-admin(.*) wp-admin$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . RELATIVE_URL/index.php [L] </IfModule>
- END WordPress
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WordPress Multisite Blog
Your .htaccess before making changes will look something like this :
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase RELATIVE_URL/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . RELATIVE_URL/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
You should now change it to :
- BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase RELATIVE_URL/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteRule ^site-admin(.*) wp-admin$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . RELATIVE_URL/index.php [L] </IfModule>
- END WordPress
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Renaming the WP-Admin Area
To rename the WP-Admin Area, please go to WordPress Admin Panel -> Loginizer Security -> Security Settings.
There you will find the Rename WP-Admin Access Setting section.
Enter a new wp-admin slug in this section.
Note : You must have .htaccess setup by now.
The following is a screenshot of the settings page
You must now access the new admin slug from the URL to see if your wp-admin area is working with the new URL.
Disable wp-admin access
Once you have setup and tested the new wp-admin area (site-admin in our example) you can consider to disable wp-admin access.
The advantage is that, attacking bots will not know the new URL.
To do so, enable the Disable wp-admin access setting as well.
Once enabled wp-admin will no longer work with the old slug. It will work only with the new slug (site-admin in our example)
