How To Change Your Default WP Admin URL Using WP Hardening?
How To Change Your Default WP Admin URL Using WP Hardening?
Not changing the default WordPress admin URL is a huge security risk for your website. Hence, it is advisable that you change widely known URLs such as – /wp-admin, /login, /admin to something lesser-known.
Changing the default WordPress admin URL manually can be a hard nut to crack and is often not recommended. To do this with the WP Hardening plugin, just follow these steps:
Log into your WordPress backend.
Install the WP-Hardening plugin, if you haven’t. Skip this step if you have already installed it.
After you’ve activated the plugin, it will render in your sidebar like this:
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/2e017d0dc14f2800/image_dpqxj9.png)
Go to the Security Fixers tab. You’ll see an option ‘Change Login URL.‘
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/2e017d0dc14f2800/image_nl1t2t.png)
Add a new URL of your choice and toggle the key to green. The new URL will be set on your WP admin page.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/2e017d0dc14f2800/image_1kvbaei.png)
If you wish to change the admin URL again, just toggle the key next to “Change Login URL”, add a new slug and toggle the key again to green. And you’re done.
Updated on: 18/07/2022
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