Hiding your WordPress login page is a great way to secure your site from targeted hacks and automated brute-force attacks.
Why should you care about hiding the login page?
The answer is: Brute-force attacks.
In a brute-force attack, hackers try to guess your username and password repeatedly until it breaks in.
They hope to find the magic combination with enough tries. Now, I think you’re seeing where hiding the login page comes into it. If you hide your login page, hackers will have nowhere to run their brute-force attack.
Protecting the login path from your website is really important. The WP Ghost plugin is a quick and simple way to do that.
Once you install it, you can customize the wp-login and hide the /wp-login and /wp-login.php path from your website.
Read More: Change and Hide wp-login Path with WP Ghost
This plugin also protects your login page from Brute Force attacks if you have the login option for your members on your page.
You can use Math Check protection or reCaptcha protection from Google. Both protections are fine and will block the hackers to a limited attempts of login.
Read More: Brute Force Attack Protection