wp_redirect_admin_locations()

Redirects a variety of shorthand URLs to the admin.

Description

If a user visits example.com/admin, they’ll be redirected to /wp-admin. Visiting /login redirects to /wp-login.php, and so on.

Source

File: wp-includes/canonical.php

function wp_redirect_admin_locations() {
	global $wp_rewrite;

	if ( ! ( is_404() && $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) ) {
		return;
	}

	$admins = array(
		home_url( 'wp-admin', 'relative' ),
		home_url( 'dashboard', 'relative' ),
		home_url( 'admin', 'relative' ),
		site_url( 'dashboard', 'relative' ),
		site_url( 'admin', 'relative' ),
	);

	if ( in_array( untrailingslashit( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), $admins, true ) ) {
		wp_redirect( admin_url() );
		exit;
	}

	$logins = array(
		home_url( 'wp-login.php', 'relative' ),
		home_url( 'login', 'relative' ),
		site_url( 'login', 'relative' ),
	);

	if ( in_array( untrailingslashit( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), $logins, true ) ) {
		wp_redirect( wp_login_url() );
		exit;
	}
}

Changelog

Version Description
3.4.0 Introduced.

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Licensed under the GNU GPLv2+ License.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_redirect_admin_locations