What is WordPress 404s Plugin?
Do you encounter the Error 404 Not Found message in your wordpress site? These 404 error pages will hurts the rank of your site in search engines, WordPress 404s Plugin is a light and easy to use wordpress plugin which help you to fix broken links automatically, and fix broken images automatically, 404s will help you to understand why your site generate 404 errors, when users be redirected to 404 pages, WordPress 404s Plugin will log users Referrers, IP, User Agent, date… and so on, and give you the list of 404s in 404s back end, avoid 404 error not found errors in your site. With WordPress 404s Plugin, you can opt to send 404 urls to your mail, redirect 404 users to home page with 301 or 302… and so on, WordPress 404s Plugin will help you find the reason of 404 Page Not Found in back end quickly and stop 404 errors happen again on your wordpress site.
You can view logs like this:
WordPress 404s Logs
You can opt to one click to remove these 404s Logs in back end control panel.
WordPress 404s plugin will not trace 404 errors which caused by bots, spiders, crawlers.
In wordpress 404s plugin “404 Global Settings” panel, you can opt to redirect 404 error page to home page automatically, so users come from search engines will not open 404 errror pages, they will go to home page directly, and you can still view these 404s records in 404s logs in back end.
Also wordpress 404s plugin have ability to redirect 404 users to any customized URL, for example, you can redirect 404 users to your landing page, or even redirect 404 users to any other site! In 404s Global Settings panel, , in the select box “Redirect 404 to HomePage”, you will find the the option “Custom URL”:
if you select “Custom URL”, URL input box will shown under the select box, you can enter custom url in here,
if you select other options in the select box, the url input box will be hide
in front end, when users view a page which do not exist, he will be redirected to the custom URL
In “404 Global Settings” panel, you can opt to “replace broken images with specific image” in settings panel, in front end, if there are broken image, we will use specific image to replace the broken image, it looks like this:
replace broken images with specific image
In “404 Global Settings” panel, you can opt to send 404 URL alert to webmaster’s mail box, you can enable or disable 404 alert in 404 global settings panel If you enable 404 error alert email notification, you can customize the email address which used to receive 404 errors notification.
The “404 Global Settings” panel looks like this:
404s Global Settings panel in version 2.8.3
Our wordpress 404 plugin have many more amazing 404 page not found related functions:
Support create post for each 404 error urls via wordperss editor: for example, you can create a post your.com/best-apple-iphone for the 404 error url your.com/apples, and create another post your.com/buy-iphone for 404 error url your.com/buy. In backend, you will find 404s menu item “All 404s”, in which you can edit / delete / manage / custom 404s posts, also you will find 404 menu item “Add New”, in which you can create new post manually and assign this post with a 404 url via “what is the 404 URL” metabox, it looks like this:
You can export 404s records to CSV: you can export all 404 pages with user informations to CSV file, CSV file can be used in excel, you can use excel to sort & analyze 404s error pages and 404 users, in “404 Global Settings” panel, just click “Export 404s” menu item to export 404s records into CSV file.
Options to stop add new 404 logs in database: by default, wordpress 404s plugin will trace all 404 page not found error URLs and insert these 404 error logs into database, you can stop adding 404 error logs in mysql database
404 logs paginate navigation: in 404s menu item, you can view all 404 logs in 404s lists, we have added paginate navigation for help admin check 404 pages easier, and avoid load too many records from mysql database in one time
Options to delete 404 logs: by default, wordpress 404s plugin will store 404s logs in mysql database, in “404 Global Settings” panel, you can one click to delete all 404 logs, also we are developed a new version to allow admin export 404 logs
Why I develop wordpress 404s plugin?
I received a few users messages that say they can not contact me via ticket system, that’s strange because every time when I try to open these pages, it always works well, so I guess maybe there are something different between my users and mine system(I working on Linux), so I develop this plugin to trace what difference caused the problem, and this plugin do help me solve the problem, I am happy to share it.
In back end, you can trace all 404 logs, also you can remove 404 logs in settings panel
Any question or more amazing features are being developed and any feature request is welcome, please don’t hesitate to contact us
How to Install WordPress 404s Plugin in Your WordPress Site?
1:Upload the 404s plugin to your blog
2:Activate it
3: You will find 404s menu item in admin area, just click 404s menu item, you can find all 404 records in a table.
1, 2, 3: You’re done!
Change Log of WordPress 404s Plugin
= Version 3.5.9 =
1 corrected an error of new users having no data
2 Enhance code security
= Version 3.5.1 =
follow wordpress security standard to use esc_attr to escaped all output
use sanitize_text_field to check and filter $_SERVER and $_REQUEST…etc too
Thank You for guidance
= Version 3.4.9 =
fix problem in “Stop Insert New 404 Log Records into Database”
fix option “Clear 404 logs now”
follow wordpress security standard to use sanitize_text_field to enhance security for field values which submit by super admin in wordpress admin
Thanks for the report
= Version 3.4.1 =
Fix broken images automatically, we added a new option “replace broken images with specific image?” in settings panel, in front end, if there are broken image, we will use specific image to replace the broken image
= Version 3.3.5 =
Removed unused functions and comments, removed debug codes, clean codes, clean unused css codes
= Version 3.3.3 =
wordpress 404s plugin support multiple language, we use load_plugin_textdomain() to load plugin’s translated srtings, you can translate it with your language and put your .mo file in languages folder
= Version 3.2.9 =
* New option in 404 Settings Panel: “Stop Insert New 404 Log Records into Database”, if you enable this option, we will not trace / record new 404 page URLs into site database
* Improved 404 plugin menu item
= Version 3.2.5 =
Support create post for each 404 error urls via wordperss editor, for example, you can create a post your.com/best-apple-iphone for the 404 error url your.com/apples, and create another post your.com/buy-iphone for 404 error url your.com/buy
In backend, you will find new menu item “All 404s”, in which you can edit / delete / manage / custom 404s posts
Also you will find new menu item “Add New”, in which you can create new post manually and assign this post with a 404 url via “what is the 404 URL” metabox
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 3.1.3 =
Export 404s records to CSV: you can export all 404 pages with user informations to CSV file, CSV file can be used in excel, you can use excel to sort & analyze 404s error pages and 404 users, in “404 Global Settings” panel, just click “Export 404s” menu item to export 404s records into CSV file.
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 3.0.3 =
Added more detailed description in setting panels to hlep users setp up easier
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 2.9.3 =
In “404 Global Settings” panel, option to set up to redirect 404 error page to specific posts, if users enter an error page url, when they open the 404 error pages, they will go to be redirected to your specific page, it can be your landing page, shop page, login page, category…. and url, even URL of another site!
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version Version 2.8.3 =
Option to send 404 URL alert to webmaster’s mail box, you can enable or disable 404 alert in 404 global settings panel
If you enable 404 error alert email notification, you can customize the email address which used to receive 404 errors notification
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version Version 2.5.5 =
In wordpress 404s settings panel, added “Redirect 404 with 301 moved permanently status code or 302 code” option box
Added more description
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version Version 2.4.7 =
Fixed a php warning in log, which generated in paginate links of “404 Page Not Found Log” panel, caused by a few site did not use https
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version Version 2.4.5 =
Fix the php warning in apache log, which caused by some pages have no $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 2.4.3 =
In 404s trace page in wordpress admin area, we added paginate navigation links, if the number of 404 records more than 20, wordpress 404s plugin will show paginate navigation links at the bottom of the 404s page, you will see navigation links pre, 1,2,3…, next.. and so on, per page will show 20 404 records
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 1.4.3 =
Support redirect 404 error page users to custom url
In 404s Global Settings panel, you will find the in the select box “Redirect 404 to HomePage”, we added new option “Custom URL”,
if you select “Custom URL”, URL input box will shown under the select box, you can enter custom url in here,
if you select other options in the select box, the url input box will be hide
in front end, when users view a page which do not exist, he will be redirected to the custom url
Instead of ‘wp_redirect’ function, we use wp_safe_redirect with 301 status to get a better and safe redirection for users and improve seo rank
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 1.2.1 =
opt to redirect 404 error page to home page
You will find “Redirect 404 to HomePage ? ” option box in “404 Global Settings” panel, opt to redirect 404 error page to home page, so users come from search engines will not open 404 errror pages, they will go to home page directly
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 1.1.1 =
Improved design in back end 404 trace page, will not messed up again when user enter a very long URL
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 1.0.9 =
Added “Global Setting Panel” in admin area
You can remove 404 Logs now
When change settings in admin area, we will show a notify bar after the settings changed successful
Improved UI in setting panel
Fixed the bug of UI messed up when emptyed log
= WordPress 404s Plugin Version 1.0 =
* Spell out that the license is GPLv3
* Finished the first version
* General code clean up
