actorgeek
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Hi, thanks so much for your help, everyone.
And @threadi, what you say is close to what my issue is, but I’d like to explain it a different way, of what seems to be two problems that I am trying to solve, to see if I can get further input. Because the plugin route described doesn’t quite solve my issue or get me to the end point of both security and access I am hoping for, and I think I’m still missing something in my understanding to get there. So, more simply:• I used a plugin to create a secure login URL so wp-admin is not public facing. The secure URL is oregonmindful.org/mindfulness. But my users who need to login to the site are having a hard time remembering that and asked for a login button on the homepage.
• I created a login/logout button in the menubar (at least I did have it up there, worked great, using the code I posted above, in my original message, but I’ve since removed it while I figure this out). When I delete the secure login URL from the security plugin, site visitors can click the login button in the menubar, it leads to a beautifully designed login page, oregonmindful.org/login, the page I created using the login module in my builder, and they are on their way.
• However, I can’t seem to have both: a secure login that hides wp-admin and wp-login.php. Because when I create the secure login URL, users who click the login button in the menubar are redirected away from the beautiful page I created, oregonmindful.org/login, to ugly generic WordPress login page.
Note that, as an experiment, I did create a designed login page, same exact design as you see above, and named it oregonmindful.org/mindfulness, but it did not work. Clicking on the login button still bypasses that to land on the ugly generic WordPress login “page.”)
So, to set me straight in my thinking, I’m asking:
What steps (and maybe more than one) do I need to
1) Hide my wp-admin and wp-login.php from bad actors who just type in DomainName/wp-admin or DomainName/wp-login.php to try to hack in but still get my users to a nicely designed login page (ideally, in my builder.)2) With new protections in place, looking at the code I used for creating the login/logout button in the menubar, what would I need to do differently in the menubar to make it work that users click and land on a designed login page?
Thank you so much!