301 ReDirect For WordPress Back To Home Page Instead Of 404 Error Page.

HowIFixedIt — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:17:52 +0000

If you delete posts in WordPress that were once indexed by Google or bookmarked by one of your visitors, if they re-visit the link they’ll get your 404 error page. The code below simply will re-direct them to your homepage. Just copy the code to a file and rename it to 404.php. In my WordPress installation, i just replaced the existing 404.php file in wp-content/themes/themename/ with the code below.

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: ".get_bloginfo('url'));

exit();

?>

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301 ReDirect For WordPress Back To Home Page Instead Of 404 Error Page.