Automatically redirect to the content the user was most likely after, or show suggestions, instead of showing an unhelpful 404 error.
| Author: | Michael Tyson (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.6 |
| WordPress version tested: | 5.6.10 |
| Plugin version: | 0.6 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 07-10-2008 |
| Last updated: | 24-11-2020
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 68 |
| Rated by: | 5 |
| Plugin URI: | https://github.com/leonstafford/smart-404 |
| Total downloads: | 113 546 |
| Active installs: | 2 000+ |
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Save your visitors from unhelpful 404 errors!
Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches content that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were
after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, pages, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested
URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that content instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the
404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.
See the Smart 404 homepage for more information.
Template tags
smart404_has_suggestions
Returns true if there are some suggestions, false otherwise
smart404_get_suggestions
Retrieve an array of post objects for rendering manually.
smart404_suggestions
Draw a list of suggested posts.
Pass the parameter “list” to render suggestions as a list.
smart404_loop
Query posts for use in a Loop. Eg:
<?php smart404_loop(); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Note that the loop will not display pages correctly, as it is not built to support them. It is recommended that if you use
a loop like that above, do not enable searching of pages.
smart404_get_search_terms
Retrieve an array of search terms used to populate the suggestions list, for use with contextual highlighting, etc.
For support and latest source code, please visit https://github.com/leonstafford/smart-404