Title: WordPress Security Questions
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Security Questions

 *  Resolved [gobeyond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gobeyond/)
 * (@gobeyond)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-questions/)
 * Hello,
 * New to WordPress, so please forgive me if this has been asked in the past. I 
   did some searches but can’t find the answer.
 * Question 1 – Can the default “admin” account be renamed to something like admin_user?
   It looks like WordPress doesn’t allow the change of the user name once it is 
   created. Having the default admin account can make it easy to guess the account
   password.
 * Question 2 – Is it safe to create another administrator’s account and delete 
   the default “admin” account?
 * Question 3 – Is there a way to hide the default login url and change it to something
   else? This may help prevent username/password guessing.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-questions/#post-1193479)
 * I’m not exactly answering your questions, but hopefully the advice will be useful
   to you.
 * By default, during installation, a really good random password is generated for
   admin, which no one in my lifetime is going to guess. Keep it (for emergencies,
   like getting locked out) and create a second administrator account of your choosing.
 * I haven’t verified that it is impossible to figure out, but making the Blog address(
   URI) and WordPress address (URI) values different from each as described here
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
   should protect your admin login URL.
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-questions/#post-1193489)
 * > Can the default “admin” account be renamed
 * Yes, through phpMyAdmin.
 * > Is it safe to create another administrator’s account and delete the default“
   > admin” account?
 * Yes, and an easier option than renaming admin if you are not familiar with working
   directly in the db.
 *  [sprede](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sprede/)
 * (@sprede)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-questions/#post-1193786)
 * Using version 3.0.1 went into myphpadmin and renamed admin account but changes
   did not show up in my wordpress install. So I deleted the account and it still
   is showing up in the wordpress install when i go to the site? Confused!
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-questions/#post-1193787)
 * Usually on install, I create a new user with a different name. Assign that new
   user admin priviledges, and then delete the original admin user
 *  [sprede](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sprede/)
 * (@sprede)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-questions/#post-1193788)
 * To darn easy man don’t know what I was thinking.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [sprede](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sprede/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-questions/#post-1193788)
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