cannot logout of WP

What errors do you get when you click on the LOGOUT link in the admin panel? Post them here and we can try to help you out.
Regards

to above, turns out the actual logout didn’t happen.

I am in the same frustrating boat as you.
I found some code in the forums suggesting a patch to wp-login.php, but that code is already incorporated into my version (1.2). So basically, this a legit bug, and also a security hole. I plan to be travelling and using WordPress through internet cafes, and I don’t want to leave my blog open to whoever sits and my computer next.
Anyone have a fix?
Thanks

Found this fix and it worked
Copy the script found at
http://www.sexygirlgeek.com/share/wp-login.phps
Backup your existing script, copy this and save it as wp-login.php and upload it.
Ron

I have WordPress 1.2.1. I found a solution to enable one to logout. In file wp-login.php
comment out lines 218 to 223. This works for me. Do NOT delete your cookies. You
won’t be able to log in.

Ok ok, here is what happened for me that fixed the issue…
First, I applied the code patches to mingus – this wasn’t necessecary for me. What did the trick was changing the site that wordpress was running on. I had just switched domains and had an apache 301 redirect on the old domain to the new. I still had wordpress set to be on the old domain. Because of this, it was not telling the wp-login script to logout when I clicked logout, thus the refresh to another page.
My suggestion would be that if you are having this issue –
1. Check and see what your server is set to ( is it the actual server ) ?
2. Put this code at the top of the logout block in the “action” case statement to see if the logout block is actually being executed :
echo “Hello Logout”;
exit ();
Mine wasn’t, and that eventually led me to realize the server redirection was stripping off hte variables, and not allowing the wp-login to realize that it had just been passed a logout request.

All,
I still cannot explain why the whole logout thing doesn’t work, but I did find if you change wp-settings to generate a constant hash for the cookiehash string things work correctly. Change wp-settings.php around line 54 from:
$cookiehash = md5(get_settings('siteurl'));
to something like;
$cookiehash = md5('my_secret_string');
Where my_secret_string is something unique to your site (your hostname or something like that). I’m pretty sure this doesn’t affect security in any way (since it was getting a constant, publicly known string before the change) but use at your own risk. — Dan (pilone@slac.com)