raywjohnson

Greetings all,

I wanted to follow up and make sure that I let everyone know that in all my testing. I could not find a fault in WPS Hide Login plugin. As in, it was always some other plugin or theme that ended up being the cause of the 404 errors.

Embarrassingly, the main culprit was a child theme of my own design. Which is why I kept seeing the issue on more that a few sites I work on. I absolutely proved that it was my theme as the main cause.

I realize it is a pain to disable each plugin, test, repeat. Then switch the theme and test. But here is the key to success.

If the 404 is the 404 page set in the Hide Login settings for the plugin (default is /404/). That is either the Hide Login plugin, but can be cause by other plugins or the theme. If it is any other page /wp-admin/index(or options or plugins or posts).php?page=pagename, that is not the Hide Login plugin. Which is what I was seeing and not realizing it.

I did not spot this fact until after many many (many) tests.

–RayJ

I cannot change plugins. I tested a few, non compare. The other plugins I tested all seems to have some odd issue. When I tested WPS Hide Login, it just did what is said it would do.

I may have narrowed this issue down a bit, and it might not be WPS Hide Login as the primary cause. It might be WP itself. I am still testing.

This link format seems to be the culprit:

https://example.com/{HIDDEN-LOGIN}/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

Starting there, I checked the console, and /wp-admin/ was cached. Logged in, logged out, tried the plan domaind/{HIDDEN-LOGIN} and got the 404. It replicate this I used clean browser profile with all cookies and cache clear.

Keep up the good work! I am not certain at all. I was attempting to figure out, and pinpoint, where the issue was in the code. I fully suspect another plugin might be part of the issue. I have this happen on several sites. But it seems very random. I could not reproduce the issue intentionally. I tried for an hour or so the get the browser to cache the redirect. It would not. System worked as expected. Intermittent issues are the worst.

Hi @davros20 ,

Many thanks. I am almost certain it will break the site. It is highly customized.

And thank for the SEO tip. That may be enough to change my clients mind.

–RayJ

Too bad. You had the opportunity to understand what caused the bad review. You just cannot or will not accept it. If you even acknowledged what my concerns were about, I may have removed my review.

I will not be using any plugins by WP MU Dev in the future. There is always another plugin.

Excellent. Thank you!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by raywjohnson. Reason: Mark as resolved

No worries. Plugin works fine.

This error occurred when I clicked on a button in an alert box. Something like “never show again”.

My apologies. I usually do better at reporting issues. With screen shots etc.

I checked the site again, the alert box did not return.

Alrighty then!

Never mind. I have discovered the wp-cli subcommands.

I think I can make it work.

–RayJ