Title: admin-ajax.php causing frontend problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# admin-ajax.php causing frontend problem

 *  [momadeedae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/momadeedae/)
 * (@momadeedae)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-causing-frontend-problem/)
 * I am not an expert so please be gentle. Here’s the problem: I have my wp-admin
   directory password protected and since upgrading, I noticed that some visitors(
   especially mobile users) were accessing the file admin-ajax.php inside this directory.
   I wondered how that was possible so I logged out and tried accessing the frontend
   of my site and it asked for a password! Any thoughts on what to do? I’d like 
   to keep the backend protected. Thank you so much.

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 * [admin-ajax.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-ajax-php/)
 * [mobile site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mobile-site/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

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 * Last reply from: [momadeedae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/momadeedae/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-causing-frontend-problem/)
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