Title: Obfuscate Admin
Author: Jason White
Published: <strong>April 19, 2019</strong>
Last modified: April 21, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Obfuscate Admin

 By [Jason White](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ijasonwhite/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/obfuscate-admin.1.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-admin/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-admin/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-admin/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-admin/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/obfuscate-admin/)

## Description

You want to stop users from accessing the wp-admin of your WordPress installation.

Obfoscate WordPress admin url and prevent casual discovery. Returns 404 status from
direct requests to /wp-admin on non-whitelisted host

### History

1.0 Original Version

1.0.1 – added obfuscation protection for /wp-login.php – this was also casually 
discoverable in previous version

## Installation

 1. Upload ijasonwhite-obfuscate-admin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the \’Plugins\’ menu in WordPress
 3. Once you have the plugin installed and activated, you\’ll see a new Obfuscate Admin
    menu link. Click that menu link to see the plugin settings page. From there you
    can edit whitelisted hostname.
 4. Enter the hostname or IP address to be whitelisted
 5. Save changes.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Obfuscate Admin” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jason White ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ijasonwhite/)

[Translate “Obfuscate Admin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/obfuscate-admin)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/obfuscate-admin/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/obfuscate-admin/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/obfuscate-admin/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/obfuscate-admin/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.22**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-admin/)
 * Tags
 * [hide](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide/)[hide admin](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide-admin/)
   [hide wp-admin](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide-wp-admin/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-admin/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jason White ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ijasonwhite/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/obfuscate-admin/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://jasonwhite.uk/doate)