Comments on: Customize your 404 page from the WordPress admin

By: Linkmoko

Linkmoko — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:11:33 +0000

I hate when i saw WP default 404 error page. what i did before in some of my WP blogs is i customized the 404 so that it allows the visitor to search from those posts. And i think your code really helps. I will try that method you showed us. Thanks

By: David

David — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:05:01 +0000

I always used to think how people put funny messages on 404 page.I wanted to do this from a long time but i don’t know any thing related to php.I really appreciate your help.You’ve made it quite easier.
Thanks.

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wordpress dev » Blog Archive » RS16 – Free WordPress Theme — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:22:28 +0000

[...] There are only two widgetized areas in this entire theme. One widgetized area is on the 404 template, in case you want to customize your 404 page from the WordPress admin. [...]

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RS16 – Free WordPress Theme | Theme Lab — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:54:45 +0000

[...] There are only two widgetized areas in this entire theme. One widgetized area is on the 404 template, in case you want to customize your 404 page from the WordPress admin. [...]

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Download Blue wordpress themes | RS11 – Free WordPress Theme — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:43:09 +0000

[...] As mentioned above, this theme comes equipped with four widgetized areas. There are the two mentioned above exclusive to the home page template, as well as one each on the sidebar and the 404 template. [...]

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:35:36 +0000

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By: florist Singapore

florist Singapore — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:00:32 +0000

interesting, I can probably use this, never thought of using 404 in this way

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:53:33 +0000

Ditutu — Thanks. I'm glad you liked the tutorial. Scott — The Hybrid theme has a forum specifically for it. Sulumits Retsambew — Definitely try it. It'll save you tons of time whenever you want to change things. Dan — If you've followed this tutorial exactly, you have a problem with either your theme, a plugin, or WordPress. Nice Blogger — Cool. I'm glad you're making use of this technique. Bethany Tinoble — I'm glad it's working out for you. Frank P. Walentynowicz — It depends entirely on your parent theme. Most decent parent theme frameworks will allow you to override your 404 template's content, so you'll need to ask your theme author.

By: Frank P. Walentynowicz

Frank P. Walentynowicz — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:59:51 +0000

Great idea! I’ve implemented it in 10+ websites which I designed and maintain. I have one small problem or inconvenience rather. My strict rule is to always use child theme to make presentation changes. I never touch parent theme. I’ve created functions.php in my child theme and registered ‘404′ sidebar there. Because of parent-child theme logic child’s functions.php is executed first and parent’s – second. This creates the following structure of sidebars: ‘404′ then other sidebars created by parent theme. Not good. With sidebars already populated with widgets I have to manually (fortunately, one time only) move widgets from 1st sidebar (‘404′) to 2nd, 2nd to 3rd and so on. If ‘404′ sidebard could be created last I wouldn’t have to do it. I think if parent-child theme logic treated functions.php like any other templates (if functions.php exists in child theme, don’t use parent’s functions.php) that would make much more sense as for now we cannot undo whatever is done by parent’s functions. Justin, do you have any ideas how to create ‘404′ sidebar as last without modifying parent’s theme files?

By: Bethany Trinoble

Bethany Trinoble — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:37:58 +0000

Much better, thank you. My users now get told to go and get a cuppa and a biscuit and try again in 10 minutes. It seems to have stopped them all frantically hitting F5 as well