How to log out without confirmation 'Do you really want to log out?"?

Question

Right now when I log out via:

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout">Log out</a>

it redirects me to the page where I need to confirm the log out.

How to eliminate the confirmation and redirect to the homepage after logout?

Answer 1

This happens because you are missing the neccessary nonce in the URL, which is being checked in wp-login.php

case 'logout' :
    check_admin_referer('log-out');
    ...

Use wp_logout_url in order to retreive the URL including the nonce. If you want to redirect to a custom URL, simply pass it as an argument.

<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url('/redirect/url/goes/here') ?>">Log out</a>

You could also use wp_loginout which generates the link for you including translation:

echo wp_loginout('/redirect/url/goes/here')

Answer 2

If you can't use wp_logout_url() function, You can turn off this validation using this code:

add_action('check_admin_referer', 'logout_without_confirm', 10, 2);
function logout_without_confirm($action, $result)
{
    /**
     * Allow logout without confirmation
     */
    if ($action == "log-out" && !isset($_GET['_wpnonce'])) {
        $redirect_to = isset($_REQUEST['redirect_to']) ? $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] : 'url-you-want-to-redirect';
        $location = str_replace('&', '&', wp_logout_url($redirect_to));
        header("Location: $location");
        die;
    }
}

Replace 'url-you-want-to-redirect' with the URL you want to redirect after logout.

Add it in your functions.php

Answer 3

If you create a custom link in your menu, set the label to “Logout”, and set the URL to http://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php?action=logout. Then add this function to your functions.php file:

function change_menu($items){
  foreach($items as $item){
    if( $item->title == "Logout"){
         $item->url = $item->url . "&_wpnonce=" . wp_create_nonce( 'log-out' );
    }
  }
  return $items;

}
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_objects', 'change_menu');

If you want to redirect to the login page after logout then you should append login URL as:

$item->url = $item->url . "&_wpnonce=" . wp_create_nonce( 'log-out' ).'&redirect_to='.wp_login_url();

Reference link

** tried that did not work. Really want to log out page then 4 something went wrong when clicking the button.

Answer 4

This worked for me by adding /?customer-logout=true at the end.

http://www.website.com/?customer-logout=true

Answer 5

If you're using roots/sage wordpress starter theme, or any other theme using Laravel's Blade templating engine, make sure not to escape the url:

// don't do
<a href="{{ wp_logout_url(get_permalink()) }}">log out</a>

// but instead
<a href="{!! wp_logout_url(get_permalink()) !!}">log out</a>

First example escapes all html characters, while the latter does not.

Answer 6

I was retrieving the logout URL using wp_logout_url() but it was still showing the confirmation. Turns out it was converting characters like & to & which was breaking the URL params. Doing this fixed it:

html_entity_decode( wp_logout_url() )

Answer 7

To bypass logout confirmation prompt define _wpnonce for log-out action in the URL like this:

$log_out_url = add_query_arg('_wpnonce', wp_create_nonce('log-out'), wp_logout_url());

wp_safe_redirect($log_out_url);
exit;

Answer 8

That's a lot of hacking. How about this: https://wpsandbox.net/wordpress/custom-logout-link-wordpress-p1498