How to Change the WordPress Login Address

Modifying the default WordPress login address is a good way to stop Brute Force attacks. To log in, you usually enter your site’s main address and add wp-login.php. By following this article, you can alter the login URL. Pick a new name for the last part of the login URL that usually has wp-login.php. By making this change, harmful bots and hackers won’t find the right URL, keeping your login page more secure.

How to Change the WordPress Login Address

This plugin, Hide My WP Lite, will hide and protect wp-login.php by renaming it.

After downloading, installing, and activating this plugin, in the WordPress admin area, from the navigation menu, select Hide My WP Login Settings.

Change the Login URL value to a non-related word in the Settings page. In this example, I entered autumn. You must remember this word when logging in. Click on Save Settings.

To log in to your WordPress Dashboard, enter the above word instead of wp-login.php in the log-in URL. You have to Enter: your-website-domain/your-chosen-word

More Options on the Settings page

There is an option to Hide Using a Specific Key that I ignore. It is just another way to do the above task.

The redirected URL option is a page where if a hacker enters your website-domain/wp-login.php, see it. The default page is your theme’s 404 page, meaning this path does not exist.

You can also use the provided option to Hide the Elementor plugin.

Conclusion

If you add a good security plugin to your website, you can see dozens of failed attempts to enter your admin area via the WordPress login address. They are meant to hack your website. How can you protect yourself from being attacked in this way by hackers? Changing the login address is an easy and useful way. By utilizing this article, there will probably be no failed login attempts to your admin area (except your own). It is a related article on how to log in to your WordPress Admin area.

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