when you say practice . what do you mean ? <| sep |> The wpfgredirect would definitely be from a plugin as it is not a native WordPress table . How it got there is not something I can really explain . It ' s possible a developer tried the plugin when migrating from Joomla to WP but the tables never got cleaned up when the plugin was removed . The wpposts table contains info for all of your posts . If you have links to the post in other post sthat would show up in the postcontent field . The postname is responsible for the post ' s slug and would play a role in the redirection . Trying searching just the postname field for threereasonstobuy . If multiple posts have the same slug that could be a problem . Resaving your permalinks shouldn ' t be scary unless you change the format . Make a copy of the live site and try it there . Resaving your permalinks performs a flush of the rewrite rules and could potentially fix things if there were some rewrite rules added from plugins .