Create a custom 404 page for wordpress
Give misguided visitors a softer landing
Successful blogs by their very nature tend to grow and evolve exponentially over time. Adding new categories and topics to your blog structure doesn’t pose much of an issue but, what do you do when you need to change the structure and categorical markup but don’t want folks/search engines getting whacked with “PAGE NOT FOUND” errors?
Give`em options
By default, many contemporary WordPress themes come with a rather boilerplate 404 page. The basic “Sorry but…” 404 wordpress page doesn’t really help folks coming in from a search portal looking for something specific.
With a small bit of code snipped from the wordpress codex, a great plugin from the raproject and a copy of your default 404.php you can help viewers find what they were looking for (and then some). Read the rest of this entry »
