Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing

Description

This plugin disables WordPress’ URL autocorrection guessing feature.
If you for example enter the URL http://www.myblog.com/proj you won’t be redirected
to http://www.myblog.com/project-2013 anymore.

This plugin is based on the example here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16557

Installation

Upload disable-url-autocorrect-guessing.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Reviews

Great Plugin

By reystub on January 11, 2024

This plugin works well on my WordPress 6.4.2 site

Thanks Hauke, this is very helpful for the very confidential site I'm working on.

Great!

By Liang (liang1216) on November 27, 2021

Great plugin.

Perfect

By Harry (dibbyo456) on September 16, 2021

perfect

it works

By bloup on March 13, 2021

It works well.

Must have plugin works in WP 5.4.2

By ctrlaltdelete on July 16, 2020

This is a must have. WP guesses the most wild things without it. I found thousands of random urls on google, none exists. This plugin makes them 404. like they always should. A new hook will be added in 5.5 add_filter( 'do_redirect_guess_404_permalink', '__return_false' ); https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/06/26/wordpress-5-5-better-fine-grained-control-of-redirect_guess_404_permalink/ Until then. Must have!

Not working for me

By alikgriffin on October 19, 2017

It’s pretty horrible that wordpress auto-guesses a url because it will break pagination when category pages are auto-guessed and that leads to lots of internal 404s by webmasters. I got this plugin working and it solved all my problems. Just make sure you purge any cdn and cache. I think it also might conflict with some Drupal to WordPress migration plugins, so you'll have to disable those eventually.

Works Perfectly

By Andy Mercer (Kelderic) on March 29, 2017

It's not really needed because the code can just be put in functions.php, but this does make it easier for people who don't know anything about PHP.

Perfect

By Jean Rochard (benefacere44) on January 30, 2017

Stop perfectly WordPress auto guess URL that created indexation problem in SERP after site malware infection

Should be built-in option

By ravenswd on September 3, 2016

Works perfectly. Thank you.

Changelog

2.0

Since ticket https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16557 is solved now, the implementation
was changed to use the filter do_redirect_guess_404_permalink as provided in the example here:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/06/26/wordpress-5-5-better-fine-grained-control-of-redirect_guess_404_permalink/

1.1

Added check for $_GET['p'] to allow rel=shortlink according to comment of user esemlabel:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16557#comment:28

1.0

First (and possibly last) version.