404 Simple Redirect
By JordiPlana
This plugin hooks the normal WordPress workflow in order to determine if the request is processing will cause a 404 HTTP error. In that case it prevents WordPress to do any other processing and sends the user to the page defined in the plugin options.
A working and simple solution.
For more information about this plugin you can check the official page.
- Download the plugin from the WordPress plugin repository, unzip and upload to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Enjoy!
Scenario
Sites with high volume of content may have some moved, deleted or badly referenced content. This situation will cause a 404 http error.
Problem
In high performance sites the previously described situation can be a resource problem. It is not necessary that we load completely the site to show a 404 error page.
Solution
Loading a plain HTML page will result easier for our web server than loading a complete CMS instance.
Installation Instructions
- Download the plugin from the WordPress plugin repository, unzip and upload to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Enjoy!
What does the plugin?
The plugin hooks the normal WordPress workflow in order to determine if the request is processing will cause a 404 HTTP error. Then it makes a redirection to the URL defined in the plugin settings.
1.2
- Fixed empty URL bug +info
- Added localization
1.1
- Fixed typo errors
- Added settings link from plugin page
1.0
- First version
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