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  • Hi,

    I can’t seem to logout of WordPress – either as an Admin via Dashboard or as a general user from the website. What I get are the following:

    Set-Cookie: wordpress_sec_523b72743166d8922b54e77c92b54927=+; expires=Mon, 08-Oct-2012 07:12:51 GMT; path=/wp/
    Set-Cookie: wordpressuser_523b72743166d8922b54e77c92b54927=+; expires=Mon, 08-Oct-2012 07:12:51 GMT; path=/
    Set-Cookie: wordpresspass_523b72743166d8922b54e77c92b54927=+; expires=Mon, 08-Oct-2012 07:12:51 GMT; path=/
    Set-Cookie: wordpressuser_523b72743166d8922b54e77c92b54927=+; expires=Mon, 08-Oct-2012 07:12:51 GMT; path=/wp/
    Set-Cookie: wordpresspass_523b72743166d8922b54e77c92b54927=+; expires=Mon, 08-Oct-2012 07:12:51 GMT; path=/wp/
    Location: http://nosweatmusicmatters.com
    Content-Length: 0
    Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=256
    Connection: Keep-Alive
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

    I’m totally lost. Please help. Thanks.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Have you tried:
    -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try deactivating via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. If applicible, also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
    – To rule out any theme-specific issue, try switching to the unedited default theme for a moment using the WP dashboard. If you don’t have access to your admin area, you can switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.
    resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break them and force them inactive).
    – If the above troubleshooting steps fail to resolve the issue, try manually re-uploading all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones. Read the Manual Update directions first!

    Thread Starter wpnsmm

    (@wpnsmm)

    Thanks for that.

    I deactivated all plugin but still can’t logout. In fact, I just checked all my WordPress sites and they’re all the same. However, I can login and logout on another PC – no problems there. But can’t seem to logout on my PC. Looks to me that its to do with my PC. Any ideas?

    Sorry – troubleshooting local computer problems is really beyond the remit of these forums. All we can suggest is that you try another browser and/or disable all browser extensions.

    Thread Starter wpnsmm

    (@wpnsmm)

    In fact. I just installed a brand new test site and same problem – can’t logout.

    I have the same problem can’t even log out of wordpress.org

    Set-Cookie: bb_user_1456808f2203afff679945a4720401b1=+; expires=Sat, 22-Dec-2012 18:26:48 GMT; path=/; domain=.wordpress.org
    Set-Cookie: bb_pass_1456808f2203afff679945a4720401b1=+; expires=Sat, 22-Dec-2012 18:26:48 GMT; path=/; domain=.wordpress.org
    Set-Cookie: bb_pass_1456808f2203afff679945a4720401b1=+; expires=Sat, 22-Dec-2012 18:26:48 GMT; path=/; domain=.wordpress.org
    Location: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-log-out-even-a-fresh-install?replies=3
    
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    I have tried different browsers and even different PCs. I just cannot log out. One common thing is that both the PCs run Windows 8.1.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    @lavishdhand,
    Please review how and where to post in this forum.
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

    How about simply deleting your cookies from your browser, at least the ones with the names of your sites ? Easy job, and the next visit, you’re not logged in anymore 🙂

    I once had this issue during a few weeks in 2012, it was gone after the next update of wordpress, I never really bothered to figure out why, to be frank.

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