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I believe that Wordpress will try to find a suitable URL if you enter a wrong one. So I have a page http://www.example.com/products/ and by mistake I enter http://www.example.com/prods/ Wordpress will probably automatically redirect.

I think that it is similar to the Multiviews option in apache. Can the Wordpress features be turned off?

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WordPress doesn't automatically suggest pages when a 404 occurs. Many themes have a 404.php template file that can effect what happens when an incorrect URL is entered. Maybe your theme has a 404 page. If you don't want it to interfere, you could try deleting the 404.php.

REVISION:

OK, I understand your request now. The best I've been able to come up with is to add this to the functions.php file:

<?php remove_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical' ); ?>

This is probably not a good idea, I'm sure it handles more than just suggesting a page when the URL given is a close match. If you want to mess around with the code to see what you can come up with, you can find it canonical.php core file located in wp-includes/canonaical.php.

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  • What I meant was that before Wordpress displays the 404 page, it tries to find urls that are similar and if one is found, it redirects to that instead of throwing a 404......wordpress tries to correct spelling mistakes before throwing a 404 Commented Sep 2, 2011 at 9:55
  • The code has been revised above. Commented Sep 2, 2011 at 10:35
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Its because of your theme your theme maybe have 404 page or function in functions.php you can remove it if you want check : http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Plugins_and_Themes_to_2.3

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