{"id":20362,"date":"2023-04-24T13:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2023-04-24T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:00:23","slug":"how-to-login-your-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/how-to-login-your-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to login your WordPress website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Okay, so you have a new WordPress website and don&#8217;t know how to log in to your website! That can happen, fortunately, it&#8217;s very easy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To log in to WordPress, do the following:<\/p>\n<p>Type in your website address and add <strong>\/admin<\/strong> to the end of the address.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19541 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/admin.jpg\" alt=\"example login\" width=\"396\" height=\"37\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then you will be taken to your login page where you enter your <strong>username or email address and then your password<\/strong> (after which you click on &#8220;log in&#8221;).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nice aligncenter wp-image-19542 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlogveld-wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress login page\" width=\"820\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlogveld-wordpress.jpg 820w, https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlogveld-wordpress-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlogveld-wordpress-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlogveld-wordpress-283x175.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t that easy!<\/p>\n<h3>PRO TIP: Customize your WordPress login URL<\/h3>\n<p>Cyber criminals also know that \/admin is the login address for every WordPress website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But fortunately,<\/strong> you can easily customize the default login URL to a new address that prevents hackers from attempting to break into your website. <em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nTo do this, install the plugin: <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/change-wp-admin-login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Change wp-admin login<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After installation, go to settings &gt; permalinks &gt; scroll down where you can enter a new address.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nice aligncenter wp-image-19543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlog-adres-veranderen.jpg\" alt=\"example of changing login address\" width=\"1102\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlog-adres-veranderen.jpg 1102w, https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlog-adres-veranderen-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlog-adres-veranderen-1030x290.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlog-adres-veranderen-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/inlog-adres-veranderen-450x127.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1102px) 100vw, 1102px\" \/><br \/>\nPS: Write down the new address if necessary so that you don&#8217;t forget it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so you have a new WordPress website and don&#8217;t know how to log in to your website! That can happen, fortunately, it&#8217;s very easy! To log in to WordPress, do the following: Type in your website address and add \/admin to the end of the address. Then you will be taken to your login [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}