Comments on: A Nearly Perfect 404 Error Page in WordPress

By: BH

BH — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:04:01 +0000

Awesome tip. I put it in and it works awesomely.

I'm using Triple K2 and it works seamlessly.

By: archGFX | Adding Search results to Wordpress 404 pages

archGFX | Adding Search results to Wordpress 404 pages — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:45:30 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Some additional code was used from Arun’s nearly perfect 404. [...]

By: Apache Dude

Apache Dude — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:35:37 +0000

What about other HTTP status codes? Like ErrorDocument 500 /index.php?error=500, etc... ? All 57 Status Codes

By: metablog » 404 errors on blogs

metablog » 404 errors on blogs — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:49:17 +0000

[...] BTW - this is a good idea for any site you have - you should ALL edit/customize your 404.php page [thanks to Arun’s Blog for the great tips] [...]

By: Jaki Levy

Jaki Levy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:15:26 +0000

Nice tip - I customized the 404 page to include archives and popular posts. What I wanted to do even further was to redirect people with a meta refresh. I recently changed my permalink structure and now people are looking for things that are not there.

So when users go to OldARTICLElink, I want to redirect them to NewARTICLElink.

My old permalink structure was category/post-title

Now it's date/category/post-title

Any idea on how to do this?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:51:05 +0000

Your demonstration link (…/blog/python) does not work (anymore?). It shows a simple, standard Wordpress (or maybe K2) 404 page. But I like your idea and will try on my blog.

By: Madison

Madison — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:37:46 +0000

Nice Site!!! (p)

By: RAB

RAB — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:52:11 +0000

Good article and should be pretty handy for all. Herez another simple trick to do it http://webtips.blogsome.com/2006/11/19/customize-404-page-free-blogs/

But I am bit confused with this http://wordpress.org/support/topic/96927 Any thoughts?

By: overla

overla — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:05:58 +0000

sorry, one last thing, which i think might be the problem, how can i get the script to drop the / at the end of a url - because it doesnt search if there is a / attached to the end. The reason i am trying to fix this is because i changed my permalink structure, so all of my pages listed on yahoo search engine for example , point to my 404 page with a url ending in /, so im trying to get the script to find the pages. thanks again

By: overla

overla — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:32:59 +0000

Hi Arin, thanks for this code, it works really well. Only thing is i had to delete line 20: $searchurl = getbloginfo('url') . '/?s='; because i kept getting an error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getbloginfo() in /my/url/theme/404.php on line 20

So my 404 page works without that line, but not if there is a long incorrect URL typed in, then it doesnt search for anything.

Wonder if you could offer any help? Thanks again