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Can I change wordpress directory on an existing website

  • wruby

    (@wruby)


    1 year ago

    Hello WordPress wizards and gurus, I need help, please.

    I receive hundreds of attempts every day from hackers trying to hack my website. Now I thought of changing my WordPress directory to reduce this login attempt. I mean I want my site home page ( https://griprecap.com ) to be different from my default WordPress installation directory ( http://griprecap.com/admin ).

    What I want to do is usually recommended for a new website, but my website is now 3 months old and I have content on it already.

    My question is,
    Can I still make my WordPress live on a different directory AND will it reduce hacker attempts (as I thought)

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • threadi

    (@threadi)

    1 year ago

    You could use a plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/wps-hide-login/ to hide your admin access.

    However, such attacks are unfortunately normal and also take place on the normal public website. My recommendation would be to use a reasonable security plugin and disable the notifications about attacks. Wordfence or iThemeSecurity can help you with this.

    Thread Starter wruby

    (@wruby)

    1 year ago

    Hi @threadi, thanks for your suggestion.

    I should try that out.

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