Disable Search Slug

Stops /search/… URLs from working, resulting in a WordPress 404 page not found.

Author:Gary Jones (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:1.5.0
WordPress version tested:4.6.0
Plugin version:1.0.1
Added to WordPress repository:08-07-2016
Last updated:08-07-2016
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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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.


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