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Recently I Found some error on WordPress sites that when someone enter a question mark after the root domain and type any word, url shows the Home Page of instance:

For instance, Root Domain is abc.com abc.com/?anyword should be reached on the 404 not found page which shows the home page.

I need help with this Issue: https://www.iadm.edu.pk/?anyword should be redirected to the 404 not found page.

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It is, in most cases, a logical thing to show the homepage even when there are querystrings available. Never the less, I'm assuming you have a reason for this. You could try code below to redirect your visitors to your 404 page:

if ( isset($_GET) ) {
    global $wp_query;
    $wp_query->set_404();
    status_header( 404 );
    get_template_part( 404 );
    exit();
}

Keep in mind that some other functionality might break because of this. You may want to add some additional conditionals.

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  • Where can I set this code, can you specify it, in the function.php or template page? The reason I ask is that so many such links have been indexed in Google. I will be able to remove it from Google's indexing. But I don't want to re-index such links. Another problem that I am facing is with http iadm.edu.pk/?anyword, which will redirect to HTTPS and show the home page http links are also indexed in Google whereas i set my domain with https www. format.
    – STEP IADM
    Apr 7, 2022 at 18:46

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