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

Finally found a way to do it without a plugin AND WITHOUT MODIFYING WP CORE (all tutorials suggests to do so for some weird reason).

1- Copy wp-login.php and rename it to new-secret-url.php (on your root directory)

2- Open new-secret-url.php file and perform a search/replace of wp-login.php to 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're not using any other frontend login forms, if you do, you can change:

is_user_logged_in() to possibly !current_user_can( 'subscriber' ) (or the role given in the frontend login logic)

5- Not sure if ajax calls works with the above, please let me know if you've tried it