{"id":47111,"date":"2019-06-28T00:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T07:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinsta.com\/?p=47111"},"modified":"2023-08-14T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:25:25","slug":"wordpress-login-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kinsta.com\/blog\/wordpress-login-url\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Your WordPress Login URL (Change It, Lock It Down)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginner users interacting with WordPress<\/a> go through a hard time logging in to their accounts. In this article, I’ll explain how to find your WordPress login URL and a few other essential things that need to be highlighted regarding the login process.<\/p>\n

Let’s start from the beginning.
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Importance of the WordPress Login<\/h2>\n

After installing WordPress<\/a>, you’ll gain access to your website’s admin dashboard<\/a>, where you have the opportunity to set up your site as you need and change a few things.<\/p>\n

This would be impossible if you had no access to the admin pages. The login page is what keeps you\u2014and others\u2014from accessing the management “side” of your WordPress site.<\/p>\n

It is virtually impossible to take full control of your site\/blog if you have no access to the admin area.<\/p>\n

But where is this WordPress login page located?<\/p>\n\n

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How to Find Your WordPress Login Url:<\/h2>\n

The WordPress login page can be reached by adding \/login<\/strong>\/,\u00a0 \/admin<\/strong>\/, or \/wp-login.php<\/strong>\u00a0at the end of your site\u2019s URL.<\/p>\n

If you installed WordPress on a subdirectory (www.yoursite.com\/wordpress\/) or subdomain (blog.yoursite.com\/), add one of the three paths at the very end of your URL such as: www.yoursite.com\/wordpress\/wp-login.php<\/strong> or blog.yoursite.com\/wp-login.php<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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How to Find the WordPress Login URL<\/h2>\n

Finding the WordPress login page is probably more straightforward than you’d expect. On a fresh WordPress installation, adding \/admin\/<\/strong><\/code> (e.g.: www.yourawesomesite.com\/admin\/<\/code>) or \/login\/<\/strong><\/code> (e.g.: www.yourawesomesite.com\/login\/<\/code>) at the end of your website\u2019s URL<\/a> will redirect you to the login page.<\/p>\n

Usually, these two should directly take you to your WordPress login page. In case this doesn’t happen, there is an additional way to reach your login page: you can add \/wp-login.php<\/strong><\/code> at the end of the URL, like in this example: www.awesomesite.com\/wp-login.php<\/code>.<\/p>\n

How to Find the WordPress Login URL on a Subdirectory or Subdomain<\/h3>\n

All of this works for a standard and new WordPress installation. But there’s a chance you might have installed WordPress on a subdirectory of your domain such as www.yourawesomesite.com\/wordpress\/<\/code> or a WordPress subdomain<\/a> such as blog.yourawesomesite.com\/<\/code>.<\/p>\n

If that’s the case, you’ll need to append one of the aforementioned paths right after the subdirectory or subdomain’s closing slash, i.e. the \/<\/strong><\/code> symbol, to get something like this:<\/p>\n