Title: Hide Backend Custom Error Message
Last modified: September 7, 2016

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# Hide Backend Custom Error Message

 *  [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web2guru/)
 * (@web2guru)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-backend-custom-error-message/)
 * There used to be an option to customize the message that was displayed when it
   was set to not redirect users to a custom url. If I remember correctly the default
   message was “error”.
 * I always change this to be a little more unique so if legitimate users are getting
   locked out I know what the cause is based on knowing that custom error message,
   vs some other lockout message or even another security plugin’s lockout message
   or some other error message.
 * Now it looks like this option has been removed and it says it will just throw
   a 403 error, but it is loading a WordPress styled page that says “This has been
   disabled.” with a few scripts being loaded. I can only assume that this is using
   a few more resources than the simple error message. One of the great things about
   the simple error message is that it could handle brute-force attacks without 
   using a ton of resources.
 * Is there some other reason I’m not aware of for removing the custom error message
   and using a WordPress generated 403 page instead?

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 *  [Gerroald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerroald/)
 * (@gerroald)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-backend-custom-error-message/#post-8187540)
 * Hi,
 * Enable the “Enable Redirection” feature then you’ll be able to enter your custom
   message in the “Redirection Slug”.
 * The “error” is the default for user lockouts.
 * Thanks,
 * Gerroald
 *  Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web2guru/)
 * (@web2guru)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-backend-custom-error-message/#post-8188110)
 * Thanks for getting back to me Gerroald, but that doesn’t seem right. The “Redirection
   Slug” would be the part of the URL after the WordPress URL that determines what
   page to load, and defaults to “not_found”.
 * Okay, I think I just got confused between features for a moment. It would be 
   nice though if we could send them to a similar “error” page instead of redirecting
   them to a custom url/slug.
 * I guess one solution would be for me to create my own simple error page (like
   the one for lockouts), load it into the root folder and put that file name in
   the slug area. Not sure if that would work but I might give it a try.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web2guru/).
      Reason: Gotta give my thanks first
 *  Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web2guru/)
 * (@web2guru)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-backend-custom-error-message/#post-8188125)
 * My issue is that the “not_found” slug just loads WordPress’s 404 page, which 
   loads all of the theme and plugin resources, which I’d like to cut out to reduce
   resource usage during attacks.

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 * Last reply from: [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web2guru/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-backend-custom-error-message/#post-8188125)
 * Status: not resolved