Change admin logout URL

Question

My site is using a short vanity URL. This is working across all of the custom theme pages. The only problem is when I logout in the admin it redirects to the long URL, which then 404s.

My General Settings (which I can't change) are:

WordPress address (URL): The long URL Site address (URL): The short URL

Looks like the logout link is generated from wp-includes/general-template.php, but I hate to edit core, non-theme, WordPress files.

Any ideas how to solve this logout 404 problem is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The quickest way to do this is through an Apache rewrite via mod_rewrite. You'll also have to tell WordPress where to points its login links using the login_url and logout_url filters.

  return apply_filters('login_url', $login_url, $redirect);
  return apply_filters('logout_url', $logout_url, $redirect);