Description
If bots are attacking your site by appending /search/a-random-string-or-word, then those pages may be getting indexed by search engines, or populating search logs.
This plugin disables that permalink structure.
Search forms will still work, and the search results page will use the less index-friendly ?s=search-term format.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/disable-search-slugdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
There are no settings pages. It just works.
FAQ
- Will search forms still work?
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Yes.
- Will URLs at `?s=search-term` still work?
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Yes
Reviews
shalintj
September 3, 2016
Installed this plugin last week to disable the search slug. It’s perfect.. Gets the jobs done. Many thanks for Gary for the awesome plugin. And he is very responsive in addressing bugs too.
Contributors & Developers
“Disable Search Slug” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.0.1
- Fix permalink change not persisting through flush rewrite rules.
- Fix change log link.
1.0.0
- Initial release.