[wp-hackers] define WP_ADMIN_DIR constant

John Blackbourn johnbillion+wp at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 15:52:21 UTC 2013


On 5 July 2013 16:25, sergi meseguer <zigotica at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the official answer still (2013) to keep out of this? If the answer is
> no, is there an official or recommended way to obfuscate wp-admin location?

The answer still appears to be no. Security by obscurity is still not
real security.

The most recent discussion on this topic can be found here:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24673. See in particular Andrew
Nacin's comment on that ticket, and previous discussion on the related
tickets (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15289,
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13118,
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7194).

John


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