Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing
Hauke Pribnow By Hauke Pribnow

September 19, 2020

Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing Plugin

Disables WordPress' URL autocorrection guessing feature.

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

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.

Details

  • Version: 2.0
  • Active installations: 2,000
  • WordPress Version: 5.5
  • Tested up to: 5.5.15

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