[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16557: Ability to disable redirect_guess_404_permalink()

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#16557: Ability to disable redirect_guess_404_permalink()
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 Reporter:  msafi                   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Canonical               |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  minor                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by DrLightman):

 Could you please, after 8 years, fullfill this request? Guessing to save a
 404 by providing another resource is not right, as others have stated.
 Also it adds up a database overload by full scanning of the wp_posts table
 thanks to the `post_name LIKE %s` query that may fail 90% of the times.

 Even a bool filter before like this would do:

 {{{#!php
 $do_the_guess = apply_filters('do_redirect_guess_404_permalink', true);

 if ( ! $redirect_url && $do_the_guess ) {
     if ( $redirect_url = redirect_guess_404_permalink() ) {
         ...
 }}}

 Thank you

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