Quick guide for anyone trying to create their own custom log out links (from a menu or within their content).
So what’s the issue?
- You create a logout link to
https://domain.com/wp-login.php?action=logout - But when you visit it…it asks for a confirmation. Annoying, right?
So to get past that we add a little snippet to functions.php (in your child theme).
The fix
Paste this snippet into your functions.php but replace yourdomain.com. And now you can create your own users logout link anywhere you like!
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'] : 'https://yourdomain.com';
$location = str_replace('&', '&', wp_logout_url($redirect_to));
header("Location: $location");
die;
}
}What about other fixes?
Long story short, I wrote this guide because the other fixes didn’t work. If you have other solutions to share, let me know in the comments.
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Hope you have a great day!
I had this issue before, noticed that a new plugging that I had just installed a few hours before, had the setting to block the /wp-login.php path lol
This was EXACTLY what I was looking for!!! I have tried numerous other code snippets and this works perfectly. Thank you!
Thanks Johnny
Same case as Sarah, tried numerous ones ans yours works just fine 🙂
Well, I’ll be damn!!! I too have been trying different snippets and this one finally worked. Thank you Johnny.
Thanks so much for sharing this clever tidbit!
Thank you so much for this snippet. It works a treat.
You saved us! We tried the same solution as you had with no luck, fortunately we found your site and it works flawlessly. Thank you so much!