Change Wordpress Admin URL

Question

I changed my Wordpress directory structure quite a bit. Here\'s what I have:

define(\'WP_SITEURL\', \'http://\' . $_SERVER[\'SERVER_NAME\'] . \'/wordpress\'         


        

Answer 1

Here's an article from wordpress's site.

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

1. Add constant to wp-config.php

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

2. Add below filter 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);  
   }
   

3. Add below line to .htaccess file

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