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Asked: 2026-05-30T09:24:02+00:00

I recently redesigned my college newspaper’s website and have been doing everything I can

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I recently redesigned my college newspaper’s website and have been doing everything I can to make sure the archives properly redirect. The site is powered by WordPress and the permalinks are set to /%category%/%post_id%/%postname%/.

Basically, WordPress takes a request like www.bupipedream.com/*anything*/post_id/*anything*/ and redirects it to the post with that post_id whether or not the category or postname are correct.

This is causing problems when someone tries to access an old-URL like www.bupipedream.com/Issues/443, WordPress redirects them to the post that has a post_id of 443.

How can I stop WordPress from redirecting requests to www.bupipedream.com/Issues? I want WP to show a 404 instead.

Thanks, Dan

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  1. Editorial Team

    Similar to ThinkingMonkey, but in reverse: block categories you want to 404:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(Issues|OtherCategoryToBlock)/
RewriteRule .* - [L,R=404]
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