{"id":3075,"date":"2014-01-21T23:21:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2014\/01\/21\/change-wordpress-admin-url-with-lockdown-wp-admin\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:33:48","slug":"change-wordpress-admin-url-with-lockdown-wp-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/change-wordpress-admin-url-with-lockdown-wp-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change your WordPress admin URL with Lockdown WP Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alert alert-danger\">Note: The Lockdown WP Admin plugin is no longer supported in newer versions of WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/wp-login-brute-force-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress brute force attacks<\/a> are on the rise, using a WordPress plugin like <strong>Lockdown WP Admin<\/strong> can help by allowing you to change the WordPress default login URL. This way attackers won\u2019t have access to your admin login form, so they can\u2019t continually try to guess your password and break in.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re curious if your WordPress site has already had malicious users trying to login to your admin dashboard, you can check out my guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/review-wordpress-login-attempts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reviewing WordPress login attempts<\/a> for easy steps on how to find out.<\/p>\n<p>You also want to make sure after you <a href=\"#install-plugin\">install Lockdown WP Admin<\/a>, be sure to <a href=\"#hide-secret-url\">hide the secret URL from the Meta widget<\/a> so that an attacker can\u2019t discover your new server admin address.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"install-plugin\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Install and configure the Lockdown WP Admin WordPress plugin<\/h2>\n<p>Using the steps below you can quickly install the <strong>Lockdown WP Admin<\/strong> plugin and configure it so that your normal WordPress login URLs of <strong>\/wp-admin<\/strong> and <strong>wp-login.php<\/strong> are changed.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Login to WordPress admin dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For this plugin to function correctly your site must first be be using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/setting-up-permalinks-on-your-wordpress-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress permalinks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hover over <strong>Plugins<\/strong>, then click on <strong>Add New<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-plugins-click-on-add-new.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-plugins-click-on-add-new.png\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"hover over plugins click on add new\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-plugins-click-on-add-new.png 325w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-plugins-click-on-add-new-300x231.png 300w\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Type in <strong>Lockdown WP Admin<\/strong>, then click on <strong>Search Plugins<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_type-in-lockdown-wp-admin-click-search-plugins.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_type-in-lockdown-wp-admin-click-search-plugins.png\" alt=\"type in lockdown wp-admin click search plugins\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Click on <strong>Install Now<\/strong> beside the <strong>Lockdown WP Admin<\/strong> plugin<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-install-now-beside-lockdown-wp-admin.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-install-now-beside-lockdown-wp-admin.png\" alt=\"click install now beside lockdown wp-admin\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> on the confirmation pop-up window<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-ok-on-pop-up.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-ok-on-pop-up.png\" alt=\"click ok on pop up\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Click <strong>Activate Plugin<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-activate-plugin.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-activate-plugin.png\" alt=\"click activate plugin\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Hover over the new <strong>Lockdown WP<\/strong>, then click on <strong>Lockdown WP<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-lockdown-wp-click-lockdown-wp.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-lockdown-wp-click-lockdown-wp.png\" alt=\"hover over lockdown wp click lockdown wp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Place a check beside <strong>Yes, please hide WP Admin from the user\u2026<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_configure-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-click-save-options.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_configure-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-click-save-options.png\" alt=\"configure lockdown wp admin plugin click save options\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Change your <strong>WordPress Login URL<\/strong> to something like <strong>secret-admin<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Leave <strong>Disable HTTP Auth<\/strong> selected, click <strong>Save Options<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #fafad2; border: 1px #D3D3D3 dashed; border-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin-top: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<em>If you use the <strong>HTTP Auth<\/strong> options the plugin will let you also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/prevent-unauthorized-wp-admin-wp-login-php-attempts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">create a secondary WordPress admin .htaccess password<\/a>. This secondary password would have to be entered in, even if someone guessed your secret login URL.<\/em><p><\/p>\n<p><em>Selecting <strong>WordPress Login Credentials<\/strong> will prompt you for your normal WordPress admin username and password, prior to gaining access to the actual WordPress admin login page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you instead use <strong>Private Usernames\/Passwords<\/strong> you can configure a new secondary login from the <strong>Lockdown WP &gt; Private Users<\/strong> section.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In my testing of this plugin I didn\u2019t have great success with the secondary password protection, which is why I\u2019ve recommended to leave it disabled as is default.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<li>Hover over <strong>Howdy, User<\/strong>, then click on <strong>Log Out<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-howdy-user-click-log-out.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-howdy-user-click-log-out.png\" alt=\"hover over howdy user click log out\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>You should see the <strong>secret-admin<\/strong> URL you set<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_after-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-installed-wp-login-url-changed.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_after-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-installed-wp-login-url-changed.png\" alt=\"after lockdown wp-admin plugin installed wp-login url changed\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Try to directly access <strong>\/wp-admin<\/strong> or <strong>wp-login.php<\/strong>, you get a 404 page<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_after-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-installed-404-errors-for-login.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_after-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-installed-404-errors-for-login.png\" alt=\"after lockdown wp-admin plugin installed 404 errors for login\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Access the <strong>\/secret-admin<\/strong> URL and you get your WordPress login page<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_after-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-installed-login-with-secret-url.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_after-lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-installed-login-with-secret-url.png\" alt=\"after lockdown wp-admin plugin installed login with secret url\"><\/a><\/p><\/ol>\n<p><a name=\"hide-secret-url\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Prevent WordPress Meta widget from exposing secret login URL<\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately while the <strong>Lockdown WP Admin<\/strong> plugin does a great job securing your site from bots that might continually try to hit the default login URLs, it also updates the <strong>Meta widget<\/strong> in WordPress with the new updated URL as seen below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_wordpress-meta-log-in-link-still-links-to-secret-admin.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_wordpress-meta-log-in-link-still-links-to-secret-admin.png\" alt=\"wordpress meta log in link still links to secret admin\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>There are two ways in which you can prevent your secret login URL from being shown like this.<\/p>\n<h3>Remove Meta widget from WordPress<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Login to WordPress admin dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hover over <strong>Appearance<\/strong>, then click on <strong>Widgets<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-appearance-click-on-widgets.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_hover-over-appearance-click-on-widgets.png\" alt=\"hover over appearance click on widgets\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Meta<\/strong> widget, then click on <strong>Delete<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-on-meta-then-on-delete.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_click-on-meta-then-on-delete.png\" alt=\"click on meta then on delete\"><\/a><\/p><\/ol>\n<h3>Edit WordPress general-template.php file to hide Log In link<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li>You can also simply edit the <strong>Log in<\/strong> link from displaying on your WordPress site by editing your template file. Although note that if you are doing it this way, future WordPress updates might override the files in your <strong>\/wp-includes<\/strong> and revert your changes, so keep that in mind.<\/li>\n<li>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/cpanel\/file-manager-code-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cPanel File Manager Code Editor<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Navigate to your <strong>\/wp-includes<\/strong> directory<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template.png\" alt=\"cpanel file manager edit general template\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li><strong>Right-click<\/strong> on <strong>general-template.php<\/strong>, then click <strong>Edit<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template.png\" alt=\"cpanel file manager edit general template\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Look for this line of code:<\/li>\n<pre class=\"code_block\" style=\"width: 500px;\">$link = '&lt;a href=\"' . esc_url( wp_login_url($redirect) ) . '\"&gt;' . __('Log in') . '&lt;\/a&gt;';<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template-before.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template-before.png\" alt=\"cpanel file manager edit general template before\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment out the line above with two forward slashes <strong>\/\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the line below it, set the <strong>$link<\/strong> variable to be blank with this code:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code_block\" style=\"width: 500px;\">$link = '';<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template-after.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_cpanel-file-manager-edit-general-template-after.png\" alt=\"cpanel file manager edit general template after\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You should end up with the final code looking like this, with your changes in <strong style=\"color: red;\">red<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code_block\" style=\"width: 500px;\">function wp_loginout($redirect = '', $echo = true) { if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) <strong style=\"color: red;\">\/\/<\/strong>$link = '&lt;a href=\"' . esc_url( wp_login_url($redirect) ) . '\"&gt;' . __('Log in') . '&lt;\/a&gt;'; <strong style=\"color: red;\">$link = '';<\/strong>         else<\/pre>\n<li>You should now see that the <strong>Log in<\/strong> link is gone from the <strong>Meta<\/strong> widget<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_log-in-link-gone-from-meta-widget.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wordpress-plugins_lockdown-wp-admin_log-in-link-gone-from-meta-widget.png\" alt=\"log in link gone from meta widget\"><\/a><\/p><\/ol>\n<p>You should now know how to add an extra level of security to your WordPress site by making sure that bots and malicious users can\u2019t easily get to your admin log in anymore.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The Lockdown WP Admin plugin is no longer supported in newer versions of WordPress. 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