Admin or Login

Does wp-admin which I use on all my other sites do anything else that I am now not loading by using wp-login.php?

No. When trying to access wp-admin when you’re not logged in, it redirects towp-login.php– That’s where the login process happens.

I have a site that rejects my admin dashboard access when I use wp-admin but if I use wp-login.php it lets me in.

However, you should be able to access wp-admin and get redirected to wp-login.php. If that doesn’t happen, then it’s a plugin that prevents that redirection to happen. Some plugins related to security do that.

Hope this helps,
Kind regards!

Thanks, Vlad, It is strange, I also thought it could be a security plugin but all my sites use WordFence but this is the only one with this issue.

I have disabled all the plugins and it does the same thing.

Barry

all my sites use WordFence

I know some other security plugin has an option to rewrite the login url and prevent access to wp-admin, but WF, AFAIK doesn’t – at least in the free version I’m using.

You can ask them at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/wordfence/

But then, you say this:

I have disabled all the plugins and it does the same thing.

Have you checked your .htaccess for any redirection rules?