Blocking Url when typed in the search bar

That’s your browser. Flush the cache and history and I bet it goes away.

no it worked on my roomates browser too

Now try it on a browser & machine that has never visited your site. Or try following ipstenu’s advice in your own browser.

that’s what im saying, my roomates never been there before. he just typed in what i told him, which was my domain/ & a number and a post starting with that number came up.

but the post wasn’t just the number. it could have been 795404, but if you type in url.com/7, url.com/795404 comes up.

and he’s never been to my site before

Okay, give us the real domain and we can test.

But. What you’re saying isn’t how WordPress, or the internet in general, works.

it’s a business link so i’d rather not share. but i will ask a friend and get back to you

so he went on his iphone and it still came up

url/# = full url

i had this similar issue, only i did not realize it would let you gain access to a protected page.

https://www.mydomain.com/wp/movies is the url to my movies page…

but
https://www.mydomain.com/wp/m would redirect me to
https://www.mydomain.com/wp/movies

i thought it was kind of cool but i was not dealing with private pages

i set up a test you could use if you wish…..
hope im not intruding

https://barriogirls.ocixx.com/wp

Private settings for page
https://barriogirls.ocixx.com/wp/protected-private/

i tried to access

https://barriogirls.ocixx.com/wp/p
while logged out. and i could not gain access to
https://barriogirls.ocixx.com/wp/protected-private/

it appears to be working properly for me…

thanks, i just found the issue, i didn’t click the private publish tab. i was using a plugin so i didn’t think i needed to, but now if i do the thing i was talkin about “page not found” comes up.

thanks for all the help folks

Sorry that wasn’t the answer. i didn’t know that would block the people i send the link to.

and i don’t want to have to register users. i just don’t want the entire url to show up if you type in a number or letter just by guessing

It really doesn’t work that way.

Look, go to https://ipstenu.org/ and start typing in letters. Does ANYTHING come up?

No. Because that’s not how WordPress, or browsers, or the internet works.

Logged in or logged out, if you have VISITED a URL, your browser caches the URL and will auto-fill it. Safari and Chrome do this. If you’ve NEVER visited a URL, it doesn’t show up.

It can’t.

well tell that to my roommate’s iphone

by the way, this is what came up when i typed in https://ipstenu.org/a

https://ipstenu.org/2003/10/07/a-change-in-the-weather/

Ahhh. The way you worded it, I (and esmi I bet) thought you meant your browser was autofilling in the rest before you hit enter. Which is just impossible.

Okay. So yes, when you go to a site and put in an incorrect URL, WordPress will try to parse it. You could turn off pretty permalinks, or protect the page. Password protection would be the way to go with this one. Give the URL, and password, to people. Or try a privacy plugin.

WordPress, by it’s nature, assumes ‘if you publish, you want people to read.’