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Lockdown WP Admin 1.3.1

March 27, 2011 by Sean Fisher

This release is coming a great new feature. For a while, people have attempted to change their WordPress login URL (the little http://youdomain.com/wp-login.php URL). But it wasn’t easy, you had to massively change file names and the core WordPress (a big no-no!) Well, I have made it simple. Introducing Lockdown WP Admin 1.3.1.

You can change the login URL to whatever URL you want it to be. There is no limit. (Well there is, you can’t have wp-admin or wp-content but that’s understandable!) And once you enable that part of the plugin, you can no longer access wp-login.php directly. It will return a 404, or a file not found. All the URLs and links to it will be rewritten, and if you don’t give the URL out, nobody will know your login URL.

If you change the URL to say “login”, your login URL page will be http://yourdomain.com/login/.

You can download the updated plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lockdown-wp-admin/. Enjoy!

UPDATE: I just pushed out 1.3.5. There was an issue with WordPress installs with a non-root location. Thanks!!

 


9 Comments »

  1. Laura says:

    Thanks so much Sean!

    Was I first to bring it to your attention? :o )

  2. mirko says:

    thank you for this plugin,very useful,but for me

    not working renaming pages /wp-login.php, when this change in any name always get the name of BASE / base.I have installed wp 3.1, what's the problem?

  3. Laura says:

    Hi Sean,

    I'm also getting the same issue of being able to rename login page, even after upgrading to latest version.

    Also I am finding it possible to access wp-login.php still (sometimes works, sometimes not).

    Thanks.

  4. Vladimir says:

    Hello Sean,

    I made the review for your Lockdown WP Admin plugin. It is published at http://www.shinephp.com/lockdown-wp-admin-plugin-
    The most critical is the silent usage of send_stats() method. It is like a some sort of spyware. I think you should exclude it from the code or add well documented option for such feature to plugin's settings page, which user can turn off easily.

    Regards,
    Vladimir.

  5. Opensource says:

    Thanks a lot for taking this step..it was really a problem regarding the login.

  6. ilithya says:

    I wanted to thank you for this great plugin Sean. Works like a charm so far for me.
    Better and easier to handle than the "Stealth Login" Plugin.

    Btw. I must say that I'm incredible surprise to find out you're so young. Keep it up!
    // Happy coding!

    • ilithya says:

      Oh hello, it's me again.
      Well as I made some changes to one of my wp sites, it turns out that your plugin doesn't work properly anymore :(

      Any ideas why when I moved wp to a subdirectory, but kept the index.php in the root directory, your plugin broke? – this means, /wp-login.php was still accesible and my /newloginurl was no longer accesible. The only thing working in your plugin was the block access to /wp-admin

      If you have a solution you're a savior, if not no worries. I'll just figure out another plugin that can help me when I make this change.

      Thanks!

      • ilithya says:

        Hello one more time.
        Well guess what? I figure out why your plugin wasn't working before and thought I'd share it with you in case you care about it.

        It wasn't the index.php issue. I found out that the problem was that I had another plugin installed and activated called "Maintenance Mode" by Michael Wöhrer. And so when that one is activated, your plugin breaks and doesn't work.

        I had to deactivate the "Maintenance Mode" plugin in order for your plugin to work properly again in the site.

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