Brijesh Tejani

oh, okay. thanks!

Edit: And my reply is late by an hour. ??

no problem. at least you replied.

I was really afraid you’d reply with that.

haha… it is probably every wp newbie’s question.

yes, i’m going to go through the complete ‘hardening wp‘ guide. but i’m someone who always wants to go the extra mile. ??

thanks for all the tips and clarifications jan. they were really helpful.

lol, it’s not my website. didn’t you read the thread title?

okay, this was helpful! thanks so much.

Oops, I said I wanna rename wp-admin. My bad. Just wp-content. And maybe move (or even rename if possible) wp-uploads.

My aim is to increase site security and prevent bot attacks.

When it comes to securing a WP site most talk about renaming wp-content. So I was wondering whether it would be wise to proceed with it.

To make it simple, I’d say I found out these:

Pros
1 Enhances security
2 Prevents access to the uploads folder (www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/)

Cons
1 Future updates of WP will fail (procedure may have to be repeated every time an update is made.)
2 Update of plugins will fail, etc.

I definitely agree. I’m thinking the same. Not sure which plugin to install. Will have to research a bit …and will blog about it too.

Yes, there are many ways.

Way 1 – You have an old backup of this plugin (like maybe a cron job where your website is hosted)
Way 2 – Ask someone who has not upgraded to the newer version to zip it and email it to you.
Way 3 – Ask iThemes to email it to you.

Go here – He might be able to help.

@johnzenausa

I haven’t disabled it yet because it helps prevent brute force attacks.

@unfinishedsympathy

Oh, that is surely a bug then. Sorry I’m a beginner yet, so can’t advice on what to do now. I too regret upgrading to the new version.

I think it’s time we move on to a different (and maybe better) security plugin. iThemes doesn’t really care to reply to support threads. Not to mention they’ve four authors!

19 out of 262 threads [resolved]

**That represents a huge amount of dis-satisfaction.**

uninstall and re-install. see if that works.

@unfinishedsympathy

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/2-issues-latest-update-login-url-disabled-funny-login-page?

Uninstall and re-install the plugin. (That’s what I did and it worked for me.) And are you seeing a weird login page like this?

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I did review the new settings. They are definitely better than before. But what about the login page acting weird?

Hey Bruce!

Thanks for your reply. For now, I am installing a separate WP dashboard for the new site. This is too complex, or maybe I’m too lazy to fix this annoying issue now. (I’m short of time actually.)

PS – This issue is NOT resolved, but I’ll come back later. Maybe after a few months and post as to what I did to resolve this issue.

@ron

I’m sorry to say this but you are not really helping.

It took me a day to figure out things by myself. I figured out that the dot shouldn’t be there. You simply said – remove the plugin until… Wow. I am guessing you are just answering for the sake of answering.

All I have to say right now is I STILL DON’T have my 2nd site up and running and I thought ‘how much time would it take to get my second site running?! huh, a couple of hours! must be easy.’

@authors

Please help guys!

I managed to add a new site but now I can’t see a dashboard for it. Nor can see or apply a theme to it.

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Can someone please go through this thread and see what I may have been missing? Please, it’s urgent!

Thanks.

@ron

I just figured out a silly mistake I had made while adding a site. (It can’t have a . (dot).) So now I can add a new site, but the new site’s slug has the primary site name in its domain name. It should be new-site.com and not noblogshit.com/new-site.

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@authors

What’s happening here? I am clueless. Please help. It’s urgent…!!

got the php version updated.. thanks!

thanks for all the help alex!