Top 5 WordPress Plugins for Customizing 404 Pages

Posted by: Toan Nguyen Minh on August 9 in Design



404 Page is a page displayed when people read it the wrong link to the article, or have broken link. In general, it is error of blog. 404 Page is to inform readers that the link does not exist anymore or has changed. To help readers more options and quickly get to new link where they need, many wordpress plugins was created for this purpose. A great 404 page will can help improve your SEO and more friendly with search engines so that today, I’m going to introduce you top 5 WordPress Plugin for Customizing 404 page.

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1. Google 404 Error pages

This is a plugin that allows you add Google Search to 404 pages easily. So, when don’t find items that reader needs, readers will use Google Search to search new articles.

2. 404 SEO Plugin

This simple plugin will give you a customized, smart ‘Page Not Found(404)’ error message. It will automatically display links to relevant pages on your site, based on the words in the URL that was not found.

3. 404 Notifier

If you’ve decided to move things around on your site, you might overlook a few redirects and end up with some broken URLs. This will help you catch those so you can take care of them.

4. AskApache Google 404

AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax and a couple tricks to display a very helpful and SEO Error Page. The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site.

5. Redirection Plugin

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation. ^_^ I’m using this plugin on Cho Toan dot Com.

If you are using Thesis Theme, you can refer some cool posts as:  Customizing the 404 Page, Creating Useful 404 Pages, Customizing Thesis Theme 404 Error Page and 100 plus Thesis Theme Resources for customizing your 404 pages.

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  • Great! Thanks sharing!
  • Thanks for the nice list of plugins. As we both use Thesis, it would be nice to customize the 404 pages more without any coding in the functions pages. I think that they will have a look at this in the near future.
  • Thanks a lot, this is so cool.

    Thanks a lot for sharing!
  • Thanks Doug, I have just fixed ^_^ Because I'm going to introduce you 8 wordpress plugins but after verifying plugins above, I decided to choose top 5 plugins to introduce to you.
  • This is a very timely post for me. We were just talking about what to do with our 404 pages and I came across this post... thanks! I think I am going to give the redirection plugin you are using a try.

    Also... in your first paragraph at the end... you should change the "8" to a "5".
  • Great list of plugins dude.. Thanks for sharing...
  • nah, don't know about this. BUt thanks for this post though.
  • I'm wondering how my 404 page look like... maybe it's a hostgator page....
  • Hey you have published great list.
    Get rid with 404 error now.
    Easy...
  • Yep. I really hate the 404 page... good thing there are these bunch of great plugins :)
  • Hey that really cool and effort have been putting up to the market.
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