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 ) ) {
		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 ) ) {
		wp_redirect( wp_login_url() );
		exit;
	}
}

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Related

Uses

Uses
Uses Description
wp-includes/general-template.php: wp_login_url()

Retrieves the login URL.
wp-includes/query.php: is_404()

Determines whether the query has resulted in a 404 (returns no results).
wp-includes/link-template.php: home_url()

Retrieves the URL for the current site where the front end is accessible.
wp-includes/link-template.php: site_url()

Retrieves the URL for the current site where WordPress application files (e.g. wp-blog-header.php or the wp-admin/ folder) are accessible.
wp-includes/link-template.php: admin_url()

Retrieves the URL to the admin area for the current site.

Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
3.4.0 Introduced.