WordPress redirects non-existing url to existing ones – how to disable
This question is a duplicate of Disable ONLY URL auto complete, not the whole canonical URL system Try this filter function remove_redirect_guess_404_permalink( $redirect_url ) { if ( is_404() ) return false; return $redirect_url; } add_filter( ‘redirect_canonical’, ‘remove_redirect_guess_404_permalink’ ); Or this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/