{"id":6550,"date":"2022-02-08T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T07:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=6550"},"modified":"2022-02-08T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T07:39:37","password":"","slug":"how-to-install-wps-hide-login-plugin","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/how-to-install-wps-hide-login-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install WPS Hide Login plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The WPS Hide Login plugin is mostly used to secure a website\u2019s WordPress account from any attempts of being accessed by outside parties. WordPress users would know that adding a \/login after a website\u2019s URL will easily give them the path to the linked WordPress account. To prevent that from happening, the WPS Hide Login plugin is introduced. Here\u2019s how you can have it installed for your own WordPress URL:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Login to your website\u2019s WordPress.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under your WordPress dashboard, look for <\/span><b>Plugins<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6551 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_dashboard-plugins.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"142\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this plugin was already previously installed, you can simply type it on the search bar and hit Enter:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_search-plugin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"47\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If not, click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wps-hide-login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to download this plugin.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(For the succeeding steps, we will follow the WPS Hide Login that is already installed in the user\u2019s plugin list.)\n<p>The <b>WPS Hide Login <\/b>plugin should now appear. Click on <b>Activate<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_activate-plugin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1153\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_activate-plugin.png 1153w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_activate-plugin-300x23.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_activate-plugin-1024x78.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_activate-plugin-768x59.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1153px) 100vw, 1153px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same page will reload but the options under the plugin name will now change to <\/span><b>Settings <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Deactivate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Click on <\/span><b>Settings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_settings-plugin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1151\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_settings-plugin.png 1151w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_settings-plugin-300x23.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_settings-plugin-1024x78.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_settings-plugin-768x59.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scroll to the bottom until you find the WPS Hide Login settings. You can now modify the login URL on this page.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_change-login-url-save.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1184\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_change-login-url-save.png 1184w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_change-login-url-save-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_change-login-url-save-1024x235.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/wordpress-hide-login-plugin_change-login-url-save-768x176.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\" \/><br \/>\nOnce done, click on <b>Save Changes<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you would like to edit the login URL again, or revert it to the original, you can repeat the same process in the Settings window.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WPS Hide Login plugin is mostly used to secure a website\u2019s WordPress account from any attempts of being accessed by outside parties. WordPress users would know that adding a \/login after a website\u2019s URL will easily give them the path to the linked WordPress account. To prevent that from happening, the WPS Hide Login [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[40],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6550","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-wordpress-hosting"],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":222,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"syd123","author_nicename":"syd123","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/author\/syd123\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"WordPress Hosting","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help-category\/wordpress-hosting\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6550\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}