How to change the admin url or wp-admin to secure login

Hi there! This would be SUCH A GREAT solution. I came here forwarded by a question I made on Stackoverflow.

I followed this step by step but still being able to log through /wp-admin and my “secret-folder” shows a 404.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

It works fine for me… Check below code for each file..

.htacess code:

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Hi there, thanks again for answer me.
I just followed your structure, I realized that it is working but in a different way I imagined.
On the initial question I wanted to change the login URL. In this case, if your type your site URL/wp-admin you will still getting the login form, my idea was to move everything to a different path, show a 404 if anyone puts /wp-admin on your site.

What I found here is that my dashboard is now showing the site.com/secret-folder URL once logged in, but the login form is still shown under /wp-admin and if you type site.com/secret-folder I get a 404.

Best.

Put slash at the end of url..
e.g. : site.com/secret-folder/

Is there a way to make /wp-admin inaccessible and have /secret-folder/ as the only way to access the login page?

Yes above code allow you to implement the admin login for url..
site.com/secret-folder/

and below code will restrict the URL : site.com/wp-admin

add_action(‘login_form’,’redirect_wp_admin’);

function redirect_wp_admin(){
$redirect_to = $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’];

if(count($_REQUEST)> 0 && array_key_exists(‘redirect_to’, $_REQUEST)){
$redirect_to = $_REQUEST[‘redirect_to’];
$check_wp_admin = stristr($redirect_to, ‘wp-admin’);
if($check_wp_admin){
wp_safe_redirect( ‘404.php’ );
}
}
}

On which file do i put above code??

This doesnt seem to be working for me. I tried using example.com/admin and it redirects me to example.com/wp-admin

Which parts of the code do I edit?

define('WP_ADMIN_DIR', 'admin');
define( 'ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', SITECOOKIEPATH . WP_ADMIN_DIR);

add_filter('https://www.example.com',  'wpadmin_filter', 10, 3);
 function wpadmin_filter( $url, $path, $orig_scheme ) {
  $old  = array( "/(wp-admin)/");
  $admin_dir = WP_ADMIN_DIR;
  $new  = array($admin_dir);
  return preg_replace( $old, $new, $url, 1);
 }

RewriteRule ^admin/(.*) wp-admin/$1?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

This is how I edited the code

I have the same issue a greyblok, whenever I try going to I tried using example.com/admin I get redirected to example.com/wp-admin…

Also, when adding the code OP posted (to functions.php), I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_filter() in /home1/*****/public_html/site.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 11

Thoughts?

Hello everyone, I currently have a wordpress.com blog now I want to change it over to www.remarpro.com to be included with my website. I have downloaded .org however I can not figure out how to login wpadmin where do I find this.

@bagladyb: As per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic. Posting in an existing topic prevents us from being able to track issues by topic. Added to which, your problem – despite any similarity in symptoms – is likely to be completely different.

Sorry new to this thanks