{"id":5137,"date":"2017-10-07T09:44:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2022-10-01T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:46:12","slug":"optimizing-wp-admin-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/optimizing-wp-admin-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimize the Security of your WP-Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With this tutorial, we will show you how to improve and optimize the security of your WP-Admin\/WP-Login.<\/p>\n<p>As you may or may not know, the WP-Login page is often being attacked by random queries in order for hackers to find a way into your website in order to trigger multiple Load Averages and subsequently crash your website.<\/p>\n<p>Below you&#8217;ll find a simply trick that can be done within a few minutes. The end goal being to change your login page&#8217;s URL so that the would be hacker be sent to a different page.<\/p>\n<p>First being, you&#8217;ll need to install the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wordpress.org\/plugins\/protect-wp-admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Protect Your Admin<\/a> plugin and then change the parameter of your login URL.<\/p>\n<p>This plugin will turn away would be hackers so that they can&#8217;t make queries to your official login page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All attacks and malicious queries on &#8220;wp-admin&#8221; and &#8220;wp-login.php&#8221; will be redirected to the homepage while accessing the Admin of your website will only work via the authorized, custom URL.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the second step, we recommend to also redirect manage it via your cPanel in the <strong>Domains<\/strong> section, then <strong>Redirects<\/strong> and then creating 2 new redirects: <strong>mydomainname.com\/wp-admin\/<\/strong> to <strong>mydomainname.com\/<\/strong> <strong>mydomainname.com\/wp-login.php\/<\/strong> to <strong>mydomainname.com\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this tutorial, we will show you how to improve and optimize the security of your WP-Admin\/WP-Login. As you may or may not know, the WP-Login page is often being<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/optimizing-wp-admin-security\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":5139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-users"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}