[wp-hackers] Rename the wp-admin directory

[Daniel Fenn]

Dion, don't worry, I can't spell that well at times and yep I can
speak engish without too much issues




On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32)
<wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> luckily that wasn't part of the grep, and was just a manually-entered
> command-line prefix ;) - But who's to say I don't name it puclic_html?
> :)
> (As a side note, wow, there's a lot of results for that in google...
> plenty of people like me who can't spell!)
>
> On 29 February 2012 12:40, Chris Williams <chris at clwill.com> wrote:
>> Maybe you'd want to fix the type in the grep command?  I'm sure you meant
>> "public_html" not "puclic" :)
>>
>> On 2/28/12 3:11 PM, "Dion Hulse (dd32)" <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>>It's a public mailing list. Do whatever you want with the reply, just
>>>don't take things out of context.
>>>
>>>On 29 February 2012 07:25, 24/7 <24-7 at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> @Dion Hulse
>>>>
>>>> Would you mind if I copy/paste your answer to the Q for later readers?
>>>>
>>>> Am Montag, 27. Februar 2012 10:02:40 UTC+1 schrieb Dion Hulse (dd32):
>>>>>
>>>>> Put simply: You can't.
>>>>>
>>>>> Longer answer: You can hack around things, and get it working, but
>>>>> you'll loose all ability to upgrade without issue (potentially causing
>>>>> security issues thanks to running an out of date version), you'll
>>>>> loose access to certain plugins that rely on /wp-admin/, you'll
>>>>> potentially loose styling when images are embedded in some
>>>>> stylesheets, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> puclic_html/wordpress-trunk$ grep -r wp-admin * | grep -v '\.svn' |
>>>>> grep -v 'wp-content' | grep '\.php'
>>>>> provides 498 good reasons not to attempt it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying WordPress doesn't
>>>>> support it, and that it's a waste of your time attempting it.
>>>>> Both from a "you can do it" perspective, AND from a security
>>>>> perspective, it's going to provide little protection, given the
>>>>> alternatives available (proper passwords.. SSL, .htaccess HTTP
>>>>> Authentication, combination of all of the previous.. etc)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 27 February 2012 19:48, 24/7 <24-7 at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi list members,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I stumbled upon this Q on WPSE<
>>>>>
>>>>>http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43560/how-do-i-rename-the-w
>>>>>p-admin-folder-with-the-admin-url-filter#comment55078_43560
>>>>> >.
>>>>> > I found it interesting, but never tried it myself, so I have no
>>>>>starting
>>>>> > point to help this guy.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 1) Is it actually possible to change the /wp-admin directory name?
>>>>> > 2) Is it the correct way he's trying it?
>>>>> > 3) Where should he start debugging?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Best wishes,
>>>>> > Kaiser.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > *) I'm the 2nd guy in the comments.
>>>>> >
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