FAQ

Hide My WP Ghost adds a redirecting layer over WordPress to let you customize the old paths without physically change them.

It also gives you the possibility to disable access to the old paths for hackers and protect the WordPress plugins and themes.

All these changes will not affect the WordPress directory structure through FTP and it will not break it when you deactivate the Hide My WP Ghost plugin.

It looks like a simple plugin but it’s a complex system behind it and a good firewall against Script Injection and Brute Force attacks.

XML-RPC on WordPress is actually an API or “application program interface“. It gives developers who make mobile apps, desktop apps, and other services the ability to talk to your WordPress site. The XML-RPC API that WordPress provides gives developers a way to write applications (for you) that can do many of the things that you can do when logged into WordPress via the web interface.

Hide My Wp Ghost was tested with all the popular cache plugins like:

• W3 Total Cache
• WP Super Cache
• Wp Fastest Cache
• WP-Rocket
• LiteSpeed Cache
• Autoptimize
• Cache Enabler

If you use a cache plugin that is not in this list and you notice any compatibility issue, please contact us and we will work to make Hide My WP Ghost compatible with it.

Yes, from version 2.3.030 of Hide My Wp Ghost plugin is compatible with BuddyBoss Theme .

Yes, from version 2.3.030 of Hide My Wp Ghost plugin is compatible with Jupiter Theme from Themeforest.

Once you change the admin path and switch on to Hide My WP > Permalinks > Hide the new admin path, you can’t access the new admin URL as a visitor.

You need to go to the new login path, and after you login, you will be redirected to the new admin URL.

Yes, since version 2.3.017, Hide My Wp Ghost plugin is compatible with Classiera Theme from Themeforest.

UPDATE! Since Hide My WP Ghost 5.0, wp-admin can be hidden for Nginx servers.
It will require a config update after you update the settings in Hide My WP Ghost with the custom wp-admin path.

Read more details about how to configure Hide My WP Ghost for Nginx servers

If the .htaccess file is not writable, in order for Hide My Wp Ghost to work you need to write the code you receive in the Hide My Wp Ghost > Permalinks after you change the settings.

If you don’t have server access you can install a plugin that will help you with this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/

You can remove the wp-htaccess-control plugin after you’re done with the setup.

No. You need to have custom permalinks set on in Settings > Permalinks.

You will get a notification in the Settings page if something is not setup right.

Don’t panic. You can find information here on how you can deactivate the plugin and configure it right:

How to Disable The Plugin In Case Of Error

Yes, this feature is available for Hide My WP Ghost.

It works with both structures of WP Multisite: subdomain & subdirectories.

Hide My WP Ghost works on WP Multisite and you will configure it for the entire network.

Multisite counts just as one site. Because the settings and usage will happen in Network > Plugins, and not on each individual site.

The Ghost version also works with Apache, Nginx, IIS and LiteSpeed servers.

You can see all the features here: http://hidemywpghost.com/hide-my-wp-ghost-security-features/