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Cecil Medara
445 PointsChange access to wp-admin
can we change the way to acces the admin panel?? rather than appending "wp-admin" to site url, Can we change it to sumthing like "dashboard" in the url.
4 Answers
Rose Cass
16,323 PointsYes this is possible!
One of the easier ways of achieving this is through the iThemes security plugin (or previously known as Better WP Security). Here this post by Manage WP walks you through how to do this: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/change-access-to-wpadmin
You can do it not though a plugin, it is more difficult. If you want to work in that direction, this would be a good place to start looking and building from: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-admin-url-or-wp-admin-to-secure-login
Bao Tran
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,959 PointsLook like there has been a discussion on WordPress.Org forums similar to your question, if not dead on.
Take a look. Hope this is what you are looking for:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-admin-url-or-wp-admin-to-secure-login
Cecil Medara
445 Pointshey i checked out the links bt it still lets me access to the admin panel by appening wp-admin or just admin, it just gave me another alias to access the admin panel.
Rose Cass
16,323 PointsI am not sure if I understand your comment but I will try. :)
Changing the WordPress login url from the default www.yoururl.com/wp-admin to www.yoururl.com/customadmin can be done. When this login is changed from the default to the custom, if some tries to visit wp-admin (to sign-in) they will get a 404.
BUT, once you are logged in, the url wp-admin and wp-login will work and display in the url.
So yes, essentially you are creating alias, because once the use is logged in it will display wp-admin in the url.
It kinda sounds like you never want wp-admin seen in the url at all, this unfortunately can not be changed (well easily). It would take some intense WordPress core hacking (which I do not recommend).
As mentioned in the linked article previously though, changing the WordPress login url to a custom one is a good idea especially for security.
Cecil Medara
445 Pointsthanks for that Ross. i will try it out and let u know how goes.