Comments on: WordPress 404 Redirect And 404 Custom Message

By: Winterize Sprinkler

Winterize Sprinkler — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:11:50 +0000

Thanks so much for this tip. I had started ranking for my blog posts, and people were clicking on them and getting 404 errors. I realized that I had followed an recommendation to change my permalinks to include the category name and that was why. So I switched back, but still changed my 404 message to a better one. I was wondering if the code you said to post in the 404.php was supposed to actually cause the page to redirect automatically? If so, I must have placed in in the wrong spot. If not, do you know of a way to do that?

Thanks

By: Soixer

Soixer — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:07:07 +0000

Sometimes 404.php may not working, so add this text to .htaccess file in root directory:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404

If it not exist, you may create it.

Regards

By: Centre dentaire Montreal

Centre dentaire Montreal — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:56:23 +0000

Thank you Jeff for this article. I have been searching for how to do this for about an hour or so in the WP documentation with no avail. As I already have a 404.php file that come with the theme, I pasted your 301 redirection code at the first line and it worked like a charm. thanks again for your help.

By: Telecom plus

Telecom plus — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:36:17 +0000

Your info on 404 worked great for me, many thanks for posting the information. John

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:54:36 +0000

This post is about WordPress not Google.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:58:05 +0000

Does google allow adsense on the 404.php page?

I have had a quick look through google but can’t really determine if they allow this or not.

Great information on setting up the 404 page, thanks

By: Jay Martin

Jay Martin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:39:10 +0000

This looks really good. Is there any way you could use this code to redirect the user to custom 404 pages based on the country they are coming from? Or does anyone know of something like this?

By: Constantine

Constantine — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:58:10 +0000

Thanks alot. I have had problems with 404 error and after trying your idea it worked. Thanks again.

By: wasdroger keuze

wasdroger keuze — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:47:47 +0000

Thanks for the 404 info! I was looking for this!

By: Bristol Web Design

Bristol Web Design — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:09:04 +0000

Hi.. I wanted to use the 404.php file as above with the atahualpa theme but where ever i put the file it doesnt work.

My problem is that a lot of old pages are still in google (like http://www.testmybroadband.co.uk/?m=200902)on a clients blog, and i want to redirect to the home page.

This theme does not have a 404.php file to start with….

help?
thanks