Change Wordpress Admin URL

Question

I changed the structure of my Wordpress a bit. Here is what I have:

define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/wordpress');
define('WP_HOME',    'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', dirname(__FILE__) . '/content');
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/content');

So, I have a content directory that contains my plugins and themes. And then I have a wordpress directory that contains the main WP files, minus the wp-content folder.

With this new structure, I have to access the WP backend with this URL: http://site.dev/wordpress/wp-admin

Is there a way to change it so that I can just access it like this: http://site.dev/wp-admin

I do not want Wordpress to be in the url. Will it be the htaccess update that I need to do, or is there a parameter that I can use in my wp-config.php file?

Answer 1

Here is an article from wordpress.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-admin-url-or-wp-admin-to-secure-login

• Add constant to wp-config.php

  define('WP_ADMIN_DIR', 'secret-folder');  
  define( 'ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', SITECOOKIEPATH . WP_ADMIN_DIR);  
  

• Add the filter below to functions.php

  add_filter('site_url',  '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);  
  }
  

• Add the line below to the .htaccess file

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

Answer 2

I communicated with this, and there is a much simpler way to do this in this simple simple function below, without having to extinguish anything else (create unnecessary folders, redirects, pages, etc.).

// Simple Query String Login page protection
function example_simple_query_string_protection_for_login_page() {

$QS = '?mySecretString=foobar';
$theRequest = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/' . 'wp-login.php' . '?'. $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

// these are for testing
// echo $theRequest . '<br>';
// echo site_url('/wp-login.php').$QS.'<br>';   

    if ( site_url('/wp-login.php').$QS == $theRequest ) {
        echo 'Query string matches';
    } else {
        header( 'Location: http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/' );
    }
}
add_action('login_head', 'example_simple_query_string_protection_for_login_page');

Answer 3

. , :

add_filter('site_url',  'wpadmin_filter', 10, 3);

 function wpadmin_filter( $url, $path, $orig_scheme ) {
    $request_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

    $check_wp_admin = stristr($request_url, 'wp-admin');
    if($check_wp_admin){
        wp_redirect( home_url( '404' ), 302 );
        exit();
    }

    $old  = array( "/(wp-admin)/");
    $admin_dir = WP_ADMIN_DIR;
    $new  = array($admin_dir);
    return preg_replace( $old, $new, $url, 1);
 }

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add_rewrite_rule( '^' . 'backend/(.*)','wp-admin/$1?%{QUERY_STRING}' );

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Answer 6

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2- new-secret-url.php / wp-login.php new-secret-url.php

3- Add the following code to your functions.php:

/** Hide default login */
add_action( 'init', 'marounmelhem_hide_login' );
function marounmelhem_hide_login() {

    //Only proceed for guests
    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {

        //Getting current page
        $current_url   = str_replace( '/', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
        $hiddenWpAdmin = 'new-secret-url'; //Change this to your new secret wp-admin url
        $redirectNaTo  = '/';

        //Checking if accessing correct login url
        if ( $current_url == $hiddenWpAdmin ) {
            wp_redirect( '/'.$hiddenWpAdmin.'.php' );
            exit;
        }

        //Only allow requests to wp-login.php coming from correct login url
        $adminToCheck = [
            'wp-admin',
            'wp-login.php'
        ];
        if (
            in_array( $current_url, $adminToCheck )
            &&
            $_GET['action'] !== "logout"
        ) {
            wp_redirect( $redirectNaTo );
            exit();
        }
    }
}

4- This only works if you are not using any other login forms, if you do, you can change:

is_user_logged_in()- possibly !current_user_can( 'subscriber' )(or the role specified in the logon logic in the web interface)

5- Not sure if ajax calls work with the above, please let me know if you tried this