Title: Disable Search Slug
Author: Gary Jones
Published: <strong>July 8, 2016</strong>
Last modified: July 8, 2016

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/disable-search-slug.svg)

# Disable Search Slug

 By [Gary Jones](https://profiles.wordpress.org/garyj/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/disable-search-slug.1.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search-slug/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search-slug/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search-slug/#installation)
 * [Development](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search-slug/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-search-slug/)

## 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

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/disable-search-slug` directory,
    or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress

There are no settings pages. It just works.

## FAQ

  Will search forms still work?

Yes.

  Will URLs at `?s=search-term` still work?

Yes

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d91cf3f63a72b0130c7a164417da2a688fcf2de1c751601bfe17cb070faa79e7?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works perfectly!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-perfectly-910/)󠁿

 [shalintj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/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.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-search-slug/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Disable Search Slug” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Gary Jones ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/garyj/)

[Translate “Disable Search Slug” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-search-slug)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/disable-search-slug/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/disable-search-slug/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-search-slug/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-search-slug/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.1

 * Fix permalink change not persisting through flush rewrite rules.
 * Fix change log link.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **10 वर्षाः ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 1.5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.6.0**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search-slug/)
 * Tags
 * [permalinks](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/permalinks/)[search](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search-slug/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Gary Jones ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/garyj/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-search-slug/)