Why hide the admin page link?
WordPress is a very popular open source CMS and is used by many websites around the world. Therefore, it is a big target for hackers. Therefore, wordpress users always want their website to be the most secure. One of the methods to protect the website is to hide the admin page link. In other words, change the admin page link.
The default path to the admin page on WordPress is usually tenwebsite.com/wp-admin or tenwebsite.com/wp-login
If you keep the URL structure like this, your website/blog will be hacked very easily. Because any hacker can use username and password detection methods to login to the admin page.
Therefore, for better security and increased difficulty for hackers, you need .
Change admin page link with Plugin
To change the admin page link, we can use wordpress intervention code. However, this way is rarely used, instead we can use a plugin. Using plugins is both fast and convenient. Besides, the plugins that do this are also lightweight, do not affect the website much.
There are many plugins that support changing the admin page path for wordpress. But I just use whichever is the most common and simple to use. The plugin I use is called WPS Hide Login . This plugin currently has over 600,000 activations and 5 star reviews. At the same time it also has quite new updates.
After installing and activating the WPS Hide Login plugin, go to the Settings > WPS Hide Login menu . It also has a pretty simple setup with 2 parts:
- Login URL : create a new login path. You should absolutely avoid using easy-to-guess paths like /login , /dang-nhap , /admin. Instead, use a personal, memorable, hard-to-find link.
- Redirection URL : is the link the website will point to when the user tries to login using the old links.
When someone opens the old admin links tenwebsite.com/wp-admin or tenwebsite.com/wp-login the website will show a 404 page like this. Or you can also use the link to the store page, or the homepage.
summary
Hiding the admin page path is one of the methods to protect your website from hackers, as well as people who are prone to hacking. Using the WPS Hide Login plugin, it will only take you about 1 minute to do this. Very convenient and easy, right?
