Title: Admin URL
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Admin URL

 *  [yuenvision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuenvision/)
 * (@yuenvision)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-url-1/)
 * When a new install of WordPress is set up, the user is given the option to create
   an admin username and password.
 * If the user goes with the default username of “admin” they end up exposing themselves
   to a high frequency of brute force attacks.
 * Changing the admin username helps for a while.
 * We’ve discovered that using a plugin like [http://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-wp-login/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-wp-login/)
   or changing the admin path in .htaccess can help quite a lot as well.
 * Would it be worth exploring adding a field in the initial setup of WP to set 
   the administration URL path?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-url-1/#post-4581634)
 * Changing the admin path isn’t likely to happen. It makes supporting WP an absolute
   nightmare, it’s complicated and tricky to support for plugins, and it doesn’t
   actually matter :/ People will just hammer away anyway.

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## Tags

 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/)
 * [brute force](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/brute-force/)
 * [path](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/path/)
 * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-url-1/#post-4581634)
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