Brendan Cornelius

It's recommended to disable the File Editor option under Appearances in your Wordpress Admin area by adding these lines to your wp-config.php file /** Disable File Editting within Wordpress */ define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true);

1. Create your .htpasswd file by running the following command: htpasswd -c /home/brendan/public_html/.htpasswd your_desired_username (where you should change "your_desired_username" with the actual username that you want to use) 2. With the .htpasswd file now created under your /home/brendan/public_html/ directory, you can go ahead and add the password protection to your wp-login.php file. You can do this by adding the following rules to the .htaccess file in /home/brendan/public_html/: <Files wp-login.php> AuthUserFile /home/brendan/public_html/.htpasswd AuthName "Private access" AuthType Basic require valid-user </Files> 3. Then create a new .htaccess file in your /home/brendan/public_html/wp-admin/ directory and put the following lines in it: AuthUserFile /home/brendan/public_html/.htpasswd AuthName "Private access" AuthType Basic require valid-user <Files admin-ajax.php>   Order allow,deny   Allow from all