Title: Addressing wp-admin Security Issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Addressing wp-admin Security Issues

 *  [Tranny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tranny/)
 * (@tranny)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/addressing-wp-admin-security-issues/)
 * I was wondering whether WP developers are considering to address wp-admin security
   issues in future rebuilds of the script.
 * I would like to see wp-admin only accessible to who it’s supposed to be accessible–
   administrators. Right now, if you are running a busy blog and opted to limit 
   comments to registered users only to retain your sanity (dealing with 500+ comments
   a day can be a hassle) you have no means to further secure your wp-admin folder
   as it would mean that you would restrict access to the profiles of all of your
   registered users.
 * With a busy blog that I run, the security of my installation is fundamental for
   me and I would like to take additional precautions in securing my blog but current
   structure doesn’t allow for that. I would for example like to have access to 
   wp-admin IP limited with apache .htaccess. I would also further like to secure
   it with apache password. However none of these are an option as I would have 
   to add an IP of each of my registered user in the .htaccess file and provide 
   them with apache password as well. No new registration would be possible though.
 * Anyway – any chance the developers would consider redoing the structure WP uses
   so it’s possible to secure administrator area with use of powerful apache security
   measures?

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 * [apache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/apache/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Tranny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tranny/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/addressing-wp-admin-security-issues/)
 * Status: not resolved

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