How to log into WordPress Dashboard: Easy way

When our WordPress site got installed, we technically created a website.

Now, we need to start adding content and design to it to look like a professional website.

And the starting point for building and managing any WordPress site is to log into WordPress dashboard.

But, how to access WordPress dashboard?

Come on, let’s see how to do that.

WordPress admin login url for live website owners using Rocket.net or other hosting services:

You can easily access the Admin Dashboard by putting /wp-admin or /login at the end of the site domain name.

For example, let’s say your domain name is:

https://www.criyasoft.in

Then you can access wordpress dashboard login like this:

https://www.criyasoft.in/wp-admin

You’ll be then presented with a login form:

We now see the login screen because we are logging in for the first time.

Anyway, on this login screen, we need to enter the Username and Password of our Admin Account.

If you remember, we provided these details when creating the site using Rocket.net:

WordPress created an Admin Account automatically when it was installed.

Without an Admin account, there is no way for us to manage the content of our website.  

Haha Nope! You didn’t miss anything.

Some hosts require you to manually install WordPress by yourself by downloading the software from wordpress.org, if that is the case, you could have provided the username and password for the admin account during the installation process:

And WordPress could have created an account for you using the credentials you have provided.

Anyway, once you remember the username and password, enter them into the admin login form and click the “Log In” button to access the WordPress Admin Dashboard:

That’s all.

We have now logged inside the WordPress Admin Dashboard successfully.

WordPress admin login url for people who installed WordPress locally:

The URL for accessing the Login screen depends on what software you have used for installing WordPress.

For MAMP Users:

For MAMP users, the domain name will be in the following format:

localhost:8888/project-folder

So, to access the Admin Dashboard, add /wp-admin after the project folder.

For example:

http://localhost:8888/criyasoft/wp-admin

Hit enter to access the login screen and enter the username and password you provided during “Step E” of the WordPress installation process.

For WAMP Users:

For WAMP users, the domain name will be in the following format:

localhost/project-folder

So, to access the Admin Dashboard, add /wp-admin after the project folder.

For example:

http://localhost/criyasoft/wp-admin

Hit enter to access the login screen and enter the username and password you provided during “Step E” of the WordPress installation process.

For LocalWP Users:

This is just a recap. You already know how to access the admin dashboard.

LocalWP uses more of an actual domain name format.

http://domainname.local/wp-admin

The only difference is, instead of using a top-level domain extension like .com, .org, etc., we will be using .local.

For example, in my case:

http://criyasoft.local/wp-admin

Hit enter to access the login screen and enter the username and password you provided during “Stage 3” of the WordPress installation process.

The Conclusion

In the next lesson, we will learn how to navigate inside WordPress Admin Dashboard.