Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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Reviewers say it does exactly one job and does it well, stopping WordPress from guessing URLs, and several add that it's still working on current versions, with a couple noting the same result can be had with a snippet in functions.php.

1. ★★★★★ reystub

   2.6y ago

   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.

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2. ★★★★★ Liang

   4.8y ago

   Great plugin.

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3. ★★★★★ Harry

   5.0y ago

   perfect

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4. ★★★★★ bloup

   5.5y ago

   It works well.

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5. ★★★★★ ctrlaltdelete

   6.1y ago

   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' ); WordPress 5.5: Better fine grained control of redirect_guess_404_permalink() Until then. Must have!

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6. ★★★★★ alikgriffin

   8.9y ago

   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. This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by alikgriffin.

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7. ★★★★★ Andy Mercer

   9.4y ago

   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.

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8. ★★★★★ Jean Rochard

   9.6y ago

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

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5.1

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-11-30 2K+ → 1K+ down after 42 days in tier
2. 2024-10-19 1K+ → 2K+ up after 4 days in tier
3. 2024-10-15 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-10-14 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2024-10-12 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier
6. 2024-10-10 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-10-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 7 days in tier
8. 2024-10-02 1K+ → 2K+ up after 28 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Custom Permalinks 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• Simple Page Redirect 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Shortcode Redirect 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• W WP Force Lowercase URLs 6K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
• WP Post Redirect 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• LH Force Lowercase URLs 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing: 1K+ active installs, 5.0★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing