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title: How To Access the WordPress Dashboard
description: 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…
url: "https://truehost.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-access-the-wordpress-dashboard/"
updated: "2024-06-21"
category: WordPress
---

# How To Access the WordPress Dashboard

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](https://truehost.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-login-to-wordpress-dashboard-using-softaculous/)

## 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](https://truehost.com/support/knowledge-base/turn-mod-security-off/)