Title: Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing Author: haukep Published: Me 21, 2014 Last modified: Gwynngala 19, 2020 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing.svg) # Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing By [haukep](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haukep/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing.2.0a.zip) * [Details](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/#description) * [Reviews](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/#reviews) * [Installation](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/#installation) * [Development](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/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 1. Upload `disable-url-autocorrect-guessing.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d55fbacef608462c61cbd5fdc4b50c977ec8e5ce131c62a391f79357d19d0b6e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-38283/)󠁿 [reystub](https://profiles.wordpress.org/reystub/) Mis-Genver 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5da663d28083486dc2d1df4ad86e20717606b3e8f732b7a4b950089d0c65cdc0? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-14003/)󠁿 [Liang](https://profiles.wordpress.org/liang1216/) Du 27, 2021 Great plugin. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/537a16cbeaaf32acf348399ac9947be6e43c4e16578b31cdd1fecc02158389e1? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-8774/)󠁿 [Harry](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dibbyo456/) Gwynngala 16, 2021 perfect ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9c4928edc97c7bc1fbcc1caa39bd7a7de114a2f6620881da4bbf773ac9593f98? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[it works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-works-2078/)󠁿 [bloup](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bloup/) Meurth 13, 2021 It works well. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/51cbfd3f9f1c839222810f1c06c5bee18cf0e6e7bd3346f05755251eb27ee4d8? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Must have plugin works in WP 5.4.2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/must-have-plugin-works-in-wp-5-4-2/)󠁿 [ctrlaltdelete](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ctrlaltdelete/) Gortheren 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! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8c0ae0265f68747affbd2673db76b32573825180451a018277653c5aecaa75de? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Not working for me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-for-me-196/)󠁿 [alikgriffin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alikgriffin/) Hedra 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. [ Read all 12 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ haukep ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haukep/) “Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## 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. ## Meta * Version **2.0** * Last updated **6 years ago** * Active installations **1,000+** * WordPress version ** 5.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.5.20** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/) and [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing) * Tags * [autocorrect](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/autocorrect/)[canonical](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/canonical/) [redirect](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/redirect/)[url](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/url/) * [Advanced View](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 12 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ haukep ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haukep/) ## Support Got something to say? 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