Comments on: If you were a WordPress theme developer: 404 templates

By: Albert K.

Albert K. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:01:39 +0000

as I said, I work with WP themes, and they have a 404 page, its very important, thanks for the post!

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By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:34:35 +0000

erica stjohn
I know it’s a late reply, but I’ve actually incorporated Smart 404 into my latest theme, Hybrid.

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By: erica stjohn

erica stjohn — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:22:12 +0000

here you go. I believe this is the one I was looking for that guesses

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-404/

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:11:45 +0000

erica stjohn
I’m thinking some sort of site map might work, but at the same time, I wouldn’t want to overwhelm the visitor with too much. Maybe a site map of the pages only would work best with the added benefit of the guessing plugin.

If you come across that plugin, be sure to link to it.

By: erica stjohn

erica stjohn — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:08:47 +0000

I have found it useful to include a sitemap on a 404. For me, if I cannot find what I am looking for because it has been moved, I like having the option of looking at all of the pages and posts in the site right there on the 404 error page.

An example would be: http://www.aleeya.net/whatever
(which doesnt exist) it tells you that the page is not found and gives you an option to look at the sitemap to see what is there.

Though I like the idea of the 404 error page guessing, I can not seem to locate what I thought was a plugin for that which I saw.

Also, for search engines, it is nice to have the internal links to other pages for a search engine to see if the page has been moved, etc. I have read a lot of positive things about that and SEO

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