August 20, 201313 yr Hi, I've had a dabble in WordPress recently as a replacement for my custom built CMS's. Has anyone successfully renamed /wp-admin to something like /admin or /cms? /wp-content seems pretty easy to rename, but the /wp-includes and /wp-admin seem pretty rigid. There seem to plugins that redirect but you still end up at /wp-admin and there are tutorials but none for the latest release (3.6). Any help gratefully received Chris
August 22, 201313 yr Author Having done a lot of research it's not really possible. Seems very hard-coded.
August 28, 201313 yr you can change all the instanses of wp-admin in the files.... all you need is notepad++ backup first.... but problem is you will not be able to install plugins or do updates or you will have to the changes again... how ever there are plugins out there that will change the directory for you. Edited August 28, 201313 yr by kitcorsa
August 29, 201313 yr Author Thanks, I should have said that I meant without hacking the original core of WordPress. I have done it the way you suggest as a test previously but it's not as easy as the plugins, wp-content, uploads folders which are all editable via the wp-config.php file.
September 22, 201313 yr Do you mean to disguise it so they don't know it's Wordpress or for security reasons? You could try this : http://wordpress.org/plugins/hc-custom-wp-admin-url/
October 2, 201313 yr Author No it's more for clients - they don't necessarily need to know it's WordPress that's hosting their website. With /wp-admin/ it becomes painfully obvious. @mantis, sadly all that plugin does is rewrite the initial call - nothing else, you still end up at /wp-admin
October 3, 201313 yr No it's more for clients - they don't necessarily need to know it's WordPress that's hosting their website. With /wp-admin/ it becomes painfully obvious. @mantis, sadly all that plugin does is rewrite the initial call - nothing else, you still end up at /wp-admin Ah well, I think it was more geared to security concerns. Personally I never try to hide Wordpress. Firstly it is very well know so there would be a lot of skinning to do and secondly, I don't think there is any shame in using it. Here is an interesting talk about hiding CMS' in general though, more for security : http://vimeo.com/53317254
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