Does anyone know if it's possible, and also how, to use mod-rewrite to create nice URLs in the wp-admin part of WordPress?
I would really like to change things like the following:
http://mydomain/wp-login.php to http://mydomain/login/
http://mydomain/wp-admin/ to http://mydomain/backend/
http://mydomain/wp-login.php?redirect_to=/my-page/ to http://mydomain/login/redirect/my-page/
http://mydomain/wp-login.php?action=/my-page/ to http://mydomain/logout/
I'm pretty sure it's possible, but my mod_write and htaccess skills aren't good enough to work this out.
Has anyone managed to get this working?
Sorry that last example should have been this:
http://mydomain/wp-login.php?action=logout to http://mydomain/logout/
I'm guessing this can't be done then?
of course it can be done.
Could you point me in the right direction then?
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Im not going to do it for you -- thats not "pointing you in the right direction".
I got part way there after finding this site: http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/2006/05/11/mod_rewrite-help-needed/
I added the following below to the .htaccess file and it works for changing http://mydomain.com/wp-login to http://mydomain.com/login and changing http://mydomain.com/wp-admin to http://mydomain.com/dashboard. They worked as I wanted and changed the links everywhere in the backend.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^dashboard/? wp-admin/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^login/? wp-login.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
I added some more RewriteRules after the above for changing http://mydomain.com/wp-admin/profile.php to http://mydomain.com/profile and changing http://mydomain.com/wp-login?action=logout to http://mydomain.com/logout, but they didn't seem to work the same way.
RewriteRule ^profile/? wp-admin/profile.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^logout/? wp-login.php?action=logout?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
I'm a little out of my depth here, but making slow progress. Do you know a good reference site (written for the layman) on how the QUERY_STRING works in mod_rewrite?
I think I'm getting close...
