{"id":1415,"date":"2021-05-10T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:49:13","slug":"how-to-login-to-wordpress-sites-wp-admin-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/how-to-login-to-wordpress-sites-wp-admin-access\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Login URL &amp; wp-admin Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is renowned for the WP dashboard \u2013 the administration panel you use to manage your website, its content, appearance, and functionality. If this is your first project, however, you might be wondering where you need to go to access the dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>The login URL can be changed at a later stage, but immediately after the installation, your WordPress dashboard can be found at:<\/p>\n<p><i><b>https:\/\/[your domain name]\/wp-admin\/<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also accessible via:<\/p>\n<p><i><b>https:\/\/[your domain name]\/wp-login.php<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that for these URLs to work, your domain needs to be pointed at the correct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/our-nameservers-ns\/\">nameservers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the login credentials you&#8217;ve set during the installation process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is renowned for the WP dashboard \u2013 the administration panel you use to manage your website, its content, appearance, and functionality. If this is your first project, however, you might be wondering where you need to go to access the dashboard. The login URL can be changed at a later stage, but immediately after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"WordPress Login URL & wp-admin Access | ScalaHosting KB","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}