Currently the status is that after implementing your suggestions, I am able to access my dashboard but still gets logout automatically. I am not even able to reply to above message by timethief in my first attempt because whenever i press the "submit" button I gets logout automatically.

Thanks and Regards
Nancy

Or are you logging in on the front page of WordPress.com?

If you aren't running one of the browsers and versions here http://browsehappy.com please upgrade or switch.

If you are running one of the browsers and versions listed at http://browsehappy.com please do these four things:

1. Try clearing your browser’s cache:

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050

2. Make sure that you have third-party cookies enabled: http://en.support.wordpress.com/third-party-cookies/

3. Try with all browser extensions or add-ons temporarily disabled.

4. Try enabling HTTPS: http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/

If it’s still happening, let us know which browser (and version of it) you’re using and post any error reports you get.

Thanks and Regards
Nancy

This usually redirects me to the stats page. There are no stats shown, but only a 0. The toolbar at the top and the menu bars (new post, reader, notifications, etc.) are still on the page. I can click on these, and it takes me to the proper section but only shows a zero. Technically I am signed out, as I can't edit or view any private content, but my name is still on the bar and the drop down menu.

It has been a problem on and off with WordPress since I joined in July. It is not too huge an issue, but still kind of annoying. I noticed it has happened more frequently over the past few days.

I tried clearing the cache and working on a few different computers, but same results. Any suggestions?

There really ought to be a way to either log out or reduce the length of a session.

If you link to a separate private blog, where you invite only users you choose, then it is still possible on shared or public computers for others to access that information unless the users are scrupulous about logging out of their accounts each and every time. WordPress does have some (long) time limits which save login information and it is unlikely to change that: if one could be logged in for only an hour imagine the difficulty of making a post if one had to constantly keep logging in…

But the real problem is actually with browser cache. If someone uses a public computer, or shares a laptop, then forgets to clear the cache and cookies, the password is saved by the browser itself.

The other issue is that people might well reblog or share passwords with others, further complicating the issue with the browser cache keeping the password protected post possible to access by others.

We have a couple of pages on our site that are intended to be accessible only to club members via a password (see pages under the heading 'Informatie voor leden'). The password protection works fine except for one thing - once you've signed in, you stay signed in for a long time (days), instead of being signed out when you leave the site. It would be really great if we could configure the time-out period, or give the members the possibility of logging out for themselves. However, I've looked everywhere and can't find anything that says how to do this. All I could find was some advice that seems to apply only to wordpress.org sites:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protecting-pages-how-does-it-work
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-require-logout-from-password-protected-page?replies=6

Is there anything I can do to either make it possible to log out from the protected pages, or change the time-out down to hours instead of days? Any advice much appreciated!

Thanks,
Camilla

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The owner wants to add a button to his menu for LOGOUT. I'm already using custom menus for his primary header and footer navigation.

Is it possible to add a button that does a logout function?

Mickey Mills

Reloading the page also doesn't work - not before I have to manually clear the cache. This isn't a browser function problem, it appears to be a wordpress function/programming issue. By the way, it's also not an 'either or' with clearing the cache or reloading - if you clear the cache, for the bar to go away, you still have to reload the page, and as I've already stated, just reloading the page doesn't work at all.

There is nothing that we can do to control basic browser functionality.

In this case, if you want the admin bar to disappear, you can either clear your browser's cache (no need to clear cookies) or just reload the page.

First, instead of leaving me on the page I'm viewing, signing out automatically bounces me back to the blog homepage (with no wordpress bar at page top at least). Then when I navigate back to the full article I was viewing when I signed out, the darned wordpress bar reappears. Reloading the page doesn't get rid of it, nor does signing out again. The only way to get rid of it is to clear my cache/cookies/active logins (I haven't tried each separately, just all three together) - and then reload the page. This is very irritating, because the main reason I logout is to get rid of that bar since it covers the first few sentences or whatever is at the top of each page as I do a "page down" to keep reading...and the bar take up prescious verticle space on my laptop.

I'm using a Macbook Pro OS X 10.5.8, and Firefox 3.6.22.

Help please, how do I fix this??

• You could have a browser issue so try changing your browser settings, refreshing the page, or clearing the browser cache and cookies - instructions for specific browsers.
• Note that when you make adjustments to your browser settings -- changing privacy settings, deleting cookies or increasing security -- you will need to close your window and restart the browser before those new settings become effective.
• You could try using another browser.