What's the correct way to hide/prevent access to wp-admin

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Published on 2012-02-09T12:17:52Z Indexed on 2012/04/02 11:29 UTC
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I'm dealing with this matter since a while, I have read a ton of articles and stuff out there but I couldn't find a place that shows the RIGHT way, standard, correct, whatever you like to call it, to prevent access to my wp-admin or wp-login.php

On all Wordpress sites I see (the well made ones) you will never see anything if you type thesite.com/wp-admin

As I could see, one way to do this is by restricting the access to that folder by creating an .htaccess file and restrict by IP the access to the folder. Seems to be the "cleanest" way to do. What I'm not sure about it is that I have a dynamic address provided by my ISP, so on a certain time my IP will change, that will force me to also change the .htaccess to my new address, I don't see that practical. I can set a range also, but by doing that I will also authorize access to all people within that range of IPs (other clients of my ISP for example).

I'm then struggling to find the best/standard way to do this.

Anyone can help me?

Thanks

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