Change from wp-login.php to login

Twice I have to do it, in 2 blogs. Then I thought to do a tutorial to help someone else. I how it helps you too.

1) Redirect with .htaccess
the original .htaccess looks like that

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

so, after

RewriteBase /

add a new rule

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^login$ wp-login.php

Now you can access the login page using these 2 urls (/login and /wp-login.php). So we need to hide the wp-login.php links in your blog.

2) Change the links from wp-logins.php to /login
in your functions.php (or someone plugin) add this filter

add_filter('site_url',  'wplogin_filter', 10, 3);
function wplogin_filter( $url, $path, $orig_scheme )
{
 $old  = array( "/(wp-login\.php)/");
 $new  = array( "login");
 return preg_replace( $old, $new, $url, 1);
}

Now, every time wordpress call site_url(“wp-login.php?action=xxx”); this function will redirect to /login.

3) Notes
I think there are some few links to wp-login.php which wordpress make without use the filter ‘site_url’. So you need to look for ‘wp-login.php’ on /wp-include and /wp-admin and change it. You can use site_url(‘wp-login.php?[and the actions]’); instead the hard code link.

I think there is other way, but it worked well for me.
Any suggestion is very apreciated =)

I am also looking for how to change the wp-admin to admin.

I hope it can help.