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Change /wp-admin URL? How to restrict user access to wordpress backend.

thelandman
Participant

@thelandman

14 years, 6 months ago

I’ve googled and searched for the best solution to change the wp-admin URL. The closest option I came accross was editing the .htaccess file. That was just another dead end.

Could anyone point me in the right direction please?

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r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 6 months ago

You probably already tried this tutorial:
http://www.michiknows.com/2007/02/12/who-else-wants-to-hide-their-wordpress-admin-folder/

The other technique is hacking WP core files:
http://www.socialblogr.com/2009/09/how-to-change-folder-name-on-wordpress.html

You could also try applying a filter to “admin_url”, but when I tried this awhile back, it didn’t work:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2584706/wordpress-where-the-admin-url-is-set

I should note that I’ve never done this and strongly advise you not to as well.

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WP should have a defined WP_ADMIN_URL variable similar to WP_PLUGIN_URL and WP_CONTENT_URL, but it doesn’t.

thelandman
Participant

@thelandman

14 years, 6 months ago

@r-a-y Yeah, I’ve tried all 3 solutions and no luck. My whole purpose was to restrict users from accessing the admin backend. So here’s a simple solution, this function must be added to the functions.php in your theme folder. Only admins can access the /wp-admin with this function.

http://pastebin.com/SY2KmcQf

Andrea Rennick
Participant

@andrea_r

14 years, 6 months ago

Or just password protect the entire /wp-admin/ dir from the server level.

r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 6 months ago

What Andrea_r said.

gojeg
Participant

@gojeg

14 years, 6 months ago

Try Stealth Login. I uses .htaccess to block direct access to wp-admin and create a new slug for that. That’s great plugin.

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