Hide the WordPress admin, login and signup pages from all users except those you allow.
As of April 2026, Hidden WP Admin is a WordPress hide plugin with 100 active installations and a 3.4/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses….
This plugin allows you to hide the WordPress admin, login and signup pages from all users except those with a specific capability. Unauthorized users will be redirected via a 301 redirect to your site’s homepage or a URL that you specify in the settings.
This plugin is useful if you want to allow signups for your site but only want users with a certain capability (e.g. edit_others_pages for editor and administrator) to be able to access the admin area. This helps to ensure that malicious users can’t access something that you didn’t intend for them to access.
You are also given the option to redirect the WordPress login and signup pages to your own custom pages. Redirecting those pages in addition to the admin can also help secure your site from someone trying to attack t…
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Initial release.= Version 1.2 =
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