WordPress 3.9.1 ok
„404-to-start“ plugin will send every 404 page not found error directly to start page or any other custom page/site you like to overcome problems with search engines. With optional email alert. This will help you solve problems with external bad links which are not under your influence. Chose between 301 – Moved permanently (default) and 302 – Moved temporarily.
Download from WordPress repository.
Changelog
1.5.7.4 (07.06.2014)
- Ukrainian translation. Thanks to Michael Yunat (http://getvoip.com/blog)
- repair of Slovak language translation
1.5.7.3 (04.12.2013)
- New search engines
1.5.7.2 (24.11.2013)
- New search engines
1.5.7.1 (11.11.2013)
- small bug fix where you could get too many mails
1.5.7 (11.11.2013)
- Now even sends mail alerts if redirect is turned off
1.5.6 (11.11.2013)
- New search engines
1.5.5 (10.11.2013)
- New search engines
1.5.4 (28.09.2013)
- New search engines
1.5.3 (26.09.2013)
- New search engines
1.5.2 (23.07.2013)
- New search engines
1.5.1 (13.05.2013)
- Better search engine detection
1.5 (30.03.2013)
- Bug fixing
- Better search engine detection
1.4.3 (25.03.2013)
- Translation
1.4.2 (24.03.2013)
- Exclude logged in users from triggering email alert
- Exclude search engine agents from triggering email alert
1.4.1 (18.03.2013)
- Putting more information into alert mail
1.4 (17.03.2013) =
- Email alert
1.3.2 (27.02.2013)
- Replacing deprecated function
1.3.1 (10.01.2013)
- Tested on WordPress 3.5 – OK
- Slovak translation, thanks to Branco from www.webhostinggeeks.com
1.3 (03.03.2011)
- Set custom target Url (any page or site you like)
1.2 (24.02.2011)
- tested with WordPress 3.1
1.1 (10.02.2010)
- new settings menu
- chose between 301 and 302 redirect
- tested with WordPress 3.0.5
1.0 (02.01.2010)
- first Version
Hallo Juergen
Muessen irgendwelche Einstellungen vorgenommen werde, um das 404 plugin zum Arbeiten zun kriegen? Bei falschen Links erscheint bei uns nach wie vor die Standard 404.
Danke im voraus.
Nein,
einfach nur aktivieren.
Benutzen Sie eventuell noch andere Plugins, die Auswirkungen auf die 404-Error-Page haben könnten?
Vielleicht einen Short-Links-Service oder einen „Pretty-Link-Generator“?
also bei mir gibts auch keine Änderung – es belibt bei der doofen 404 seite des templates. wie kann ch das debuggen? Danke!
Tipps zum Debuggen: Entweder man schaltet alle Plugins, die man noch zusätztlich nutzt, kurz aus und dann einzel wieder an und überprüft jedesmal, ob der Fehler noch existiert. Oder man schaltet alle Plugins an und einzel wieder aus und prüft, ob der Fehler nicht mehr existiert.
Sollte das immer noch nicht helfen:
1. Theme kurzfristig auf das Default Theme umstellen. Wenn es dann funktioniert, hat wohl jemand etwas an den Theme/Template-Dateien direkt geändert.
2. WordPress auf einem Testserver – bei einem völlig anderen Provider (sehr wichtig!) – installieren und schauen, ob dort der Fehler auch existiert. Wenn nicht, wäre das ein Hinweis, dass der Provider direkt für die 404-Fehler-Umleitung verantwortlich ist. Dann bitte, wenn möglich, die .htaccess-Datei im Root-Folder, die alle anderen Einstellungen überschreiben kann, kurz durch Umbenennung deaktivieren und wieder prüfen.
Thank you for a superb plugin!
Can it be edited to send 404s to a page of our choice other than the start page? If so, please tell me what to edit. I could not find it in the file. Thank you.
Thanks for inspiration.
Please have a look at the newest version where you can chose any custom target Url you like.
Fantastic! Thank you so much — great plugin!
It’s working perfectly. Thank you so much for adding this feature.
Is it possible to use this to re-direct to a completely different site?
Thank you so much! You have just saved me literally hours of work redirecting urls by hand. You are a genius! I just installed this plugin and it worked perfectly on all my url redirects. Thanks again!
You are very much welcome.
Hi,
when i try to save the settings (redirecting 404 to my homepage) i have this errors:
PHP Warning: get_headers() [function.get-headers]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in D:\siti\redsflame.com\redsflame.com\wp-content\plugins\404-to-start\404-to-start.php on line 190
PHP Warning: get_headers() [function.get-headers]: This function may only be used against URLs. in D:\siti\redsflame.com\redsflame.com\wp-content\plugins\404-to-start\404-to-start.php on line 190
Can you help me?
This is the result of a very strict server administration.
Do you have a good contact to your server’s admin?
This means that your server configuration is blocking external file access, which in consequence blocks my plugin from accessing/testing the site you want to redirect to.
A solution you should mail your server’s admin:
allow_url_fopen should be ON in PHP configuration (php.ini).
This error is the fact that the server has been upgraded from PHP 4 to a newer version. As a result, the allow_url_fopen is set to OFF, which is responsible for disallowing include files to use absolute file paths.
Thank you:i have just change server’s admin 😉
Great
This plug in worked great and it was easier for me to use then to edit all my wordpress themems by hand. Thanks.
I made sure to give you some advertisement clickthrough love while I was on your site to. It’s the least I can do.
Thank you very much.
Nettes Plugin!
Ich würde das ganze gerne in die Suche umleiten. Besucher die also kein Ergebnis finden, sollen dann direkt ein Suchergebnis erhalten.
Ist es mit dem Plugin möglich? Wenn ja was müsste ich in den Einstellungen eintragen?
Hallo, nein das ist nicht möglich.
Ich habe mich bewusst gegen so ein Plugin entschieden, da es zuviel Last auf dem Server erzeugt. Denn sehr viele Abrufe provozieren beinahe sekündlich 404-Error (z.B. schlecht programmierte Suchmaschinen oder automatisierte Hackerversuche). Wenn dann bei jedem 404 ein Suchergebnis ermittelt wird, wird der Server unnötig für alle gebremst.
Aber Du kannst das mit dem Plugin Smart 404 lösen: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-404/
Das spuckt Suchergebnisse für jeden 404 aus.
This is cool in the respect that I could use it for people linking by error (mistyping my url when linking) so I can get the link juice, but is it possible to also run it with other 301 plugins so that I can fix broken links and drive link juice to the correct page without always defaulting all 404s to the homepage?
Don’t know. Give it a try.
Hi,
I just want to thankyou so much for your plugin as I have been on the computer all day trying to fix my page not found error. Your plugin was fast to fix it for me and so easy to use I can’t thankyou enough, all the best.
Susan H
You are very much welcome
On the same server with same phpinfo, same WP version, I have one domain blog where 404 plugin does not work and another domain blog where 404 plugin do work ??? Any idea how to fix this ?
regards
Try and switch off/on every other plugin to find out who is causing the trouble
Dumb question – I cannot find where to change the settings for this plugin. Using WordPress 3.2.1, just uploaded plugin today – 8/13/11
Settings -> 404 to Start
Hello. I uninstalled your plugin, but all redirections still remain. How to remove them. It causes me problems
Hello, Janny,
my plugin does not work outside the script.
It does not touch the database or any other scripts.
I assume you problems are caused by something else or somehow the scripts where not removed properly. Maybe you should check manually with an FTP client and delete if necessary.
Your 404 plugin doesnt work correctly. Google Webmastertools reports a number of soft 404 errors. Using other 404 plugins elliminates the problem.
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Tausend Dank ! Das war quasi die Lösung meines Google Webmaster Problemes.
Meine Fehlermeldungen werden nun weniger ( DEUTLICH WENIGER ) und meine Seite RANKT besser.
Vielen Dank für dieses Plugin ( Empfehlung etc,. )
Karl
Gern geschehen.
Das war auch einer der Gründe, warum ich dieses Plugin programmiert habe.
This does not appear to work with WP 3.6.1. Can you confirm?
Can’t confirm.
Using it on three blogs, works like always
Nice Plugin ! Best solution for for 404 errors…
but… Juergen Schulze says…..> Sorry, I don’t give support anymore…
Not enough time…
But I continue working on it.
Hi.
I seem to get redirects to other places then I set 404 for. A deleted tag is redirected to different places in russia..
I have no idea what you are taling
Hi Team,
Any ida why I get ‚This is not a valid Url‘ when tryin gto save ‚404 to Start‘ wordpress plugin settings?
Thanks,
John
wha did you entered?
Just wanted to tell you i have realy injoyed your plugin it has made a word of differance on or ability to change clients site over and not losing serch engin rankings. If our company wanted to hire you for a special project would that be posible?
Hello,
glad the plugin was useful. But I don’t work as freelancer anymore.
Just let me know if you miss something on the plugin, maybe I could implement it.
I really like this plug-in, I use it on every site I make as part of the standard basic set install, along with WP SEO by Yeost and WP Super Cache.
you are very much welcome
Thanks for the plugin, i had switched over from one of my other domains and i would have had over 50k 404 errors. This helped out a lot.
That’s one of the reasons I programmed it.
You are welcome
J
Vielen Dank Juergen for this great tool. Our developer said he could not change the 404 page, but your tool sorted us out in a minute!
Quick feedback: Your 404 email has a small typo in English version. Last line Remote Addres[s] needs another s.
By the way, where do we change the email address of this 404 email from WordPress you@example.com?
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Greets, had this in deploy toolkit for intended use in multi site management. My plugin management asset says this plugin is abandoned and prompts me all the time to replace. Is this a dead duck… I have a long history of purchases that get abandoned within 6 months. A non paid asset as this is surprises me to see longevity…..hopefully not an issue and I can do a global ignore. ty igydog
Hello Jurgen, the plugin settings does not accept any https:// URL’s. It only accepts http:// URL’s.
Thanks for the hint.
Done in the new version.
You’re welcome…!
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