Title: WordPress Automatic Redirection Issue
Last modified: August 15, 2022

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# WordPress Automatic Redirection Issue

 *  Resolved [AlGala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/algala/)
 * (@algala)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-automatic-redirection-issue/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I hope this is the right place to post about this. I have been trying to look
   this up, but every time I search for an issue related to Redirections and WordPress,
   I am pointed towards one of the Redirection plugins. But this issue is unrelated
   to any redirection plugin. Though, I do use a redirection Plugin (Redirection
   by John Godley) what’s happening is not related to any redirections we added 
   to that said plugin.
 * Now, so I’m sure some of you have experienced this before, and I feel like it
   happens with blog posts the most. If you attempt to go to a page that has two
   words in the slug, such as ‘/why-wordpress/’ and instead type ‘/wordpress/’, 
   there are times that WordPress will redirect to the correct page, even if no 
   redirection has been manually added to the site for that specific instance.
 * I have set up a sample site. On this site I have created a page /podcasts/. you
   can still reach the page by typing /pod/ (or even just /p/) even though there
   are no plugins installed on the site at all.
    [https://donnag84.sg-host.com/podcasts/](https://donnag84.sg-host.com/podcasts/)
 * Now that it has been established that this happens, I want to know a few things:
 * 1) What is causing this redirection to happen?
 * 2) How can this be stopped or turned off?
 * 3) If it can’t be stopped or turned off, then can it be controlled?
 * The issue here is that my company has a website that has been experiencing redirection
   issues where rather than going to a certain page, the redirection is taking the
   user to a random, very old blog post. So we want to either turn this off, or 
   control this in a way that these redirections don’t go to old, random posts or
   pages that are not really being used anymore, but still public for SEO or other
   reasons.
 * If possible, let us know how we can better manage how this works, or turn it 
   off completely.
 * Thank you!

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-automatic-redirection-issue/#post-15918524)
 * This is called “guessing”. Read more here: [https://neliosoftware.com/blog/devtips-how-to-stop-wordpress-from-guessing-urls/](https://neliosoftware.com/blog/devtips-how-to-stop-wordpress-from-guessing-urls/)
 * Other info: [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wordpress+disable+url+guessing&ia=web](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wordpress+disable+url+guessing&ia=web)
 *  Thread Starter [AlGala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/algala/)
 * (@algala)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-automatic-redirection-issue/#post-15918546)
 * Okay great, thank you Steven for your quick and helpful reply.
 * I never knew about ‘guessing’, and your links are very informative.
 * Thanks again!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [AlGala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/algala/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-automatic-redirection-issue/#post-15918546)
 * Status: resolved

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