As of April 2026, Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing is a WordPress url plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 17K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
5/512 reviews
1.0K+active installs
17K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
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
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great Plugin
by reystub·2 years 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.
Great!
by Liang·4 years ago
Great plugin.
Perfect
by Harry·4 years ago
perfect
it works
by bloup·5 years ago
It works well.
Must have plugin works in WP 5.4.2
by ctrlaltdelete·5 years 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!
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 8This week: 44Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
95.0%
v1.1
5.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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/
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