{"id":8082,"date":"2022-10-19T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=8082"},"modified":"2024-06-21T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:31:09","password":"","slug":"how-to-access-the-wordpress-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/how-to-access-the-wordpress-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Access the WordPress Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The wordpress dashboard is the workstation of your website, may it be a blog, or ecommerce site or an informational website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you install wordpress, you need to access the dashboard to make changes to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a few ways to access the wordpress dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1.Using Softaculous App Installer (Recommended)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Softaculous provides a one click login option to your wordpress dashboard. To login to your dashboard using Softaculous, use <a href=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/how-to-login-to-wordpress-dashboard-using-softaculous\/\">this guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2.Using WordPress login script<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress provides two URLs you can use to login to your dashboard. If your domain is truehosttestdomain.com, you can login to WordPress using<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>http:\/\/truehosttestdomain.com\/wp-admin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>http:\/\/truehosttestdomain.com\/wp-login.php<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: If you are enable to access wordpress via any of the methods above and instead get a 404 page, try the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>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 <strong>wps-hide-login<\/strong>. If you cannot remember your custom login URL, disable the plugin first, login then enable it again.<\/li><li>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<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;Location \/>\n   Order deny, allow\n   allow from all\n&lt;\/Location><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Disable Mod Security in cPanel. Use <a href=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/turn-mod-security-off\/\">this guide<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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