The wordpress dashboard is the workstation of your website, may it be a blog, or ecommerce site or an informational website.
Once you install wordpress, you need to access the dashboard to make changes to it.
There are a few ways to access the wordpress dashboard.
1.Using Softaculous App Installer (Recommended) #
Softaculous provides a one click login option to your wordpress dashboard. To login to your dashboard using Softaculous, use this guide
2.Using WordPress login script #
WordPress provides two URLs you can use to login to your dashboard. If your domain is truehosttestdomain.com, you can login to WordPress using
http://truehosttestdomain.com/wp-admin
or
http://truehosttestdomain.com/wp-login.php
Note: If you are enable to access wordpress via any of the methods above and instead get a 404 page, try the following:
- Confirm if you had a plugin that changes your login URL. Some plugins do this as a security measure. One such popular plugin is called wps-hide-login. If you cannot remember your custom login URL, disable the plugin first, login then enable it again.
- Check if you have a misconfigured .htaccess file inside your wp-admin folder. If the .htaccess file has rules that look like this, you need to delete the file
<Location />
Order deny, allow
allow from all
</Location>- Disable Mod Security in cPanel. Use this guide