How to Change Default Admin URL in WordPress
WordPress is a winning CMS over the CMS World. 25% of the websites over the internet use WordPress CMS. But due to its popularity and user friendly, most of attackers target WordPress rather than others CMS. So, everybody should care their WordPress websites to avoid from hacking. There are plenty methods of hacking and you can’t afford to secure 100% of your website. You should know and accept this words “No System is Safe”. But you have to prepare your website to more secure. In this article, I will guide how to change default admin URL in WordPress. Why should you change default admin login URL? Everyone who is using WordPress knows the default admin login URL. You should change this URL to protect from brute force attacks.
The default admin login URL link is “example.com/wp-admin” and “example.com/wp-login.php”. Malicious hackers use automatic scanners to find your login page to attack using brute force attack. Remember that changing or hiding default admin login URL link will not really secure WordPress security. It is just changing only admin login URL. Ok, time is so far I talk about few security tips of WordPress. Let’s go now. There are many WordPress plugins to change admin URL. In this article, I will list free WordPress plugins.
I recommend you to use “WPS Hide Login” plugin. Because it is light weight. No need to configure additional settings. You need to change only admin login URL in Setting. See the following picture.
After setting up custom login URL has been changed, click “Save Changes” button. And then, relogin with your changed login URL. If you login with “/wp-admin” or “wp-login.php”, it will appear 404 error page.
You can also try “Protect Your Admin” or “iThemes Security” plugins. But these two plugins are heavier than WPS Hide Login plugin. Because WPS Hide Login plugin has no additional setting such as admin logo, page styles and others. I think login page styles is not important and it is useless. So, don’t use such features. But iThemes Security plugin has many security related features. If you want to use additional security setup for your website, I recommend you to use iThemes Security plugin. But if you are willing to change only admin URL, use WPS Hide Login plugin. Enjoy your new admin login URL. Cheers!……
