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How to hide admin login link to custom link of WordPress website ?

Last Updated : 17 Aug, 2022
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WordPress is an open-source Content Management System that is totally based on PHP and MySql and is used to create a dynamic website. as it is open source and becomes easier for hackers to compromise the WordPress security and to make our WordPress website more secure and safe from the hackers. It is one of the best methods to hide the default login URL from your custom login URL.

In WordPress, the login URL is like this e.g. www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin here this string /wp-admin is the default login after the main website URL, this URL is mostly known by all the hackers and they easily perform the Brute force attack on your website. The best and the most secure way is that you should hide your URL to the custom URL so that only you know.

In this post, we are going to see how we can hide the wp-admin URL to the custom URL using the plugin WPS Hide Login.

WPS Hide Login:

WPS Hide Login is the plugin that helps WordPress users to change the login URL easily and simply to their own custom URL. This plugin actually doesn’t change the URL in the core of the files. and if you deactivate this the website returns to its original URL and the custom URL doesn’t start to work. so to make the custom URL work you should have to keep the plugin on your website.

Let’s see how we can hide the login URL to our custom URL step by step-

Step 1: First you have to install the WPS Hide Login plugin to your WordPress website. Hover over the plugin and then click on the “Add New”.

 

Step 2: Now in the search box type the “WPS Hide Login” the plugin will appear and then click on the “Install Now ” button to install the plugin.

 

Step 3: After clicking on the “Install Now” button click on the “Activate” button to activate the plugin.

 

Step 4: Now hover over the setting and then click on the “WPS Hide Login” to configure the settings.

 

WPS Hide Login wizard will appear on the window screen, where you can change the login URL.

 

Step 5: Now change the login URL as you want to change and click on the “Save” to make the changes.

 

After clicking on the “Save Changes” button your default login will be changed to the custom one which you have set.

Step 6: Now you are ready to log in from your custom login URL to your WordPress dashboard.

 

Hope this article is useful and makes you understand how you can the default login to the custom login URL.

 

This is how you can change the login URL to any custom URL that you like and make your WordPress website more secure and safe from hackers.


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