Where exactly did you change this?
Are you able to access the dashboard by going to example.com/wp-login.php?
No, I am not able to access the dashboard at all.
1.) I was getting a lot of strange new users that were registering at my site with spoofed email addy’s.
2.) I tried to address the problem by changing the admin login on name from “admin” to something else. I was successful with this.
3.) I notice that there was an option in the dashboard to rename the billbrickey.com/wp-admin to something else. I did so and logged on succesfully multiple times. However, I did not manage the page for several more months and subsequently forgot the name of the page.
4.) no, I did not write it down…
What should I do?
B~
Where in the dashboard were you able to change the WP-ADMIN. Or did you use a plugin? Also do you know how to FTP?
Yes, I know how to use FTP but I can’t see the “alias” name there. I think that the actual name of the page is the same, wp-admin. However I think the changes I made give that page an alias that must be used to access the login page.
Pretty dumb, I know but I really wanted the email address spoofing to stop.
B~
CLick here to see what happens when I try to login…
http://www.billbrickey.com/wp-admin/
Normally users won’t register through the wp-admin URL. The bots that are programmed to do this (it’s bots, not real people doing this) are programmed to use wp-signup.php which is the standard public-facing registration page.
The only way that you’re going to find the URL now is to look through the database entries and identify which one holds that value. It’s most likely in the wp_options table, but it depends on the plugin that you’ve used to change the URL, so if it’s not there it could be anywhere else… impossible to say without knowing what you’re using there.
If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to FTP into your hosting server and disable the plugin that’s doing the re-naming. That (should) remove the redirection and let you log in as normal.
Thank you. I’ll try and hack through the data but I think I see a file restore in my future.
🙁
Also, I will post my resolution just so it is on record.
