Change the WordPress login page link to wp-admin and activate reCAPTCHA

By default, the login link to any WordPress site is public and known to everyone, and it is in the form: (www.DomainName.com/wpadmin). But why might the login page link be a concern for you? Why should you think about changing the WordPress login link and adding the Captcha tool to it?

In fact, keeping the login link as it is could pose a potential risk to the security of your site. It is not a good idea to easily predict the login page, as well as to increase attempts to hack that page, which is considered a gateway to all of your site’s settings. Therefore, we will explain to you the security of this page by changing that default link and adding the automatic verification feature (reCAPTCHA). Why change the login page link? If you want to increase the degree of security and protection of your WordPress site, one of the most important ways to achieve this is to modify the login page link and make it available only to members or administrators of the site.

Customizing the page link to be available only to specific people will protect your site from any hacking attempt or unauthorized access, which may affect the speed and performance of your site, or even the security of the site and expose user data to risk. One of the most famous attacks that WordPress sites are exposed to is the brute force attack, which includes a series of attempts to predict login accounts through that home page with the aim of hacking the site and stealing its data or even blocking the site and users’ data. Thus, changing this default link foils all of these attempts. We can clarify that the mechanism that most hackers follow when trying to hack your site is through the general login link, through the following steps: Accessing the main site link: www.Example.com Determining whether the site was designed and developed using WordPress or another platform, through one of the tools or by checking some known files that are inside WordPress, such as /wp-content, /wp-includes, and others.

Ensuring that the site is built on the WordPress platform, it is easy to expect the default control panel login page if it has not been changed, which is /wp-admin. After reaching the login page, hackers begin to guess the username and password. This is very easy if the login data is the default data and the username is Admin. Of course, if you are at all familiar with how to design a website on WordPress, you will not keep that password as it is. After guessing the username and password and successfully entering the site's control panel, they can damage a lot of the site's files and user data.

After this quick review of the most prominent dangers that your site may be exposed to through the general login link, and the importance of changing that link in securing your site, as well as the same thing in adding the reCAPTCHA human verification system to the login page, and this is what we will explain in the following lines. Change the login link to the WordPress control panel /wp-admin Let us now review one of the ways to change the link to the login page to the WordPress control panel using one of the easy-to-use plugins, which is the WPS Hide Login add-on, which helps you change the link from within the control panel. First, we will install the plugin through the WordPress control panel, then go to: Add-ons