Title: Lock admin-interface
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Lock admin-interface

 *  [ose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ose/)
 * (@ose)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lock-admin-interface/)
 * Is there a way to completely lock down the admin interface for all users except
   the site admin?

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 *  [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lock-admin-interface/#post-134048)
 * I assume if you only give your users low level access, then it won’t be a problem.
   Failing that, you could create a shortcut to the admin file on your desktop and
   login in that way, instead of having a link on the website?
 *  Thread Starter [ose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ose/)
 * (@ose)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lock-admin-interface/#post-134099)
 * > “I assume if you only give your users low level access, then it won’t be a 
   > problem.”
 * Since WP does not support user groups, I want to have only 3 or 4 different users(
   friends, family…) each with a different password – and I don’t want people to
   edit prefs/pw for that user at all.
 * Hiding the link wouldn’t work as everybody who realizes I am using WP can manually
   type the URL to the admin interface.
 * I found out however that using http-authentication for the wp-admin directory
   works fine. I would have preferred a solution integrated with WP, but for now
   that’s good enough. Really hoping for more user/group/permission features though…

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lock-admin-interface/#post-134099)
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