How do I disappear my author slug

Hey Mireya,

You should take security measures very seriously, but I don’t think this is one of them to be honest. I have several private site where my author name and user name is the same, and I’ve never seen login attempt using that user name. Bots tend to only use “admin”, as that is the default user created by WordPress if you don’t change it yourself. Did you try to use a plugin like WordFence to see if this is actually a problem on your site? If not then I don’t think you have to worry about it too much.

If you are worried about someone gaining access to your, site then I would recommend that you lock down the login screen instead as explained on this page: https://steadywp.com/wordpress-security/

Best regards,
Rikard

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. If you want to do it yourself then I would advise you to simply put a .htaccess password on your login page. You should likely finds dozens of articles explaining how to do that, if you can’t get it working then your hosting provider should be able to help you out with that, if it’s not already available for you in their admin interface.

Best regards,
Rikard

Hi,

Great, please let us know if you should need any further help on the topic.

Best regards,
Rikard