WordPress is redirecting to similar URLs

I'm seeing some weird behavior in my Wordpress installation:

It's resolving incorrect URLs (looking for similar URLs) and I don't know why. For example, the correct URL is:

http://mydomain.com/apples-and-oranges/

but if I type:

http://mydomain.com/apples-and-ora/

(including the trailing slash) it resolves to the correct URL. And this is actually causing me some problems when the user gets redirected to a similar URL but should not.

Any ideas why? (I have tried removing all the rewrite rules in my .htaccess file, but that didn't fix it.)

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asked 30 Jun '14, 16:14

PeterA
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Hello,

I made a clean WordPress install and it looks like this is default behavior. I found a way to disable it here. Simply create a file such as "myplugin.php" in ~/webapps/myapp/wp-content/plugins with that code snippet and a plugin header, then go to the "Plugins" section of /wp-admin and activate it, which will stop the URLs from resolving.

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answered 30 Jun '14, 19:15

yulian
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edited 30 Jun '14, 21:58

Thank you Yulian!

And on that page you found, there is a link to someone who has already created a plugin with this code. You can download it from WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/

Also apparently there will be options for this in WordPress 4.0.

(30 Jun '14, 19:24) PeterA

Even better that there's already a plugin :)

If you have any other issues, don't hesitate to let us know.

(30 Jun '14, 19:28) yulian

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