404 Handler Plugin

Download:
Download version 2.5 or view the source.

If you find this plugin useful please donate to the author.

This plugin adds functionality to provide enhanced 404 messaging and logging. Adjust what methods of logging are used on the configuration page.

Revision History:

version 1.0 Original Release
version 1.1 Bug Fixes
version 2.0 Changed to using class structure. Also added signature idea from Rich Boakes
version 2.1 Fixes to make compatible with Wordpress 2.0
version 2.2 Added Logging idea from Matt Read
version 2.3 Made plugin identifier functions universal for all plugins.
version 2.4 Added functions to stub to identify current available release. Adjusted options page to display. Fixed missing __CLASS__ constant for versions of PHP older than 4.3.0. Fixed issue with PHP5 installs. Fixed infinate recurtion caused by handle404() function name matching class name of Handle404.
version 2.5 Fixed version notification.

Installation:

  1. Copy the file rjs-404.php to the WordPress plugins directory on your server, (%WORDPRESS PATH%/wp-contents/plugins/).
  2. You will then need to activate the plugin from the WordPress administration plugins page.
  3. Adjust the options as necessary.

Credits:

Rick Boakes His signature idea is a good one.
Matt Read Got the idea of storing a log in the wordpress DB from him.

4 Comments

  1. Do you know when your blog has problems? -- Chip’s Quips Pingback posted Saturday, August 5, 2006:

    […] Here’s another nice plugin for WordPress: Rodney’s 404 Handler. (Thanks, Mike Koepke) […]

  2. Triston Comment posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006:

    What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the
    front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or
    a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)?
    Thanks.

  3. My WordPress plugins | rich text Pingback posted Saturday, March 10, 2007:

    […] Rodney’s 404 Handler: Since WordPress’s permalinks feature requires that it handle all requests that don’t map to specific files, Apache can’t handle 404s itself. WordPress’s own handling doesn’t provide any feedback, so this takes care of writing to the webserver’s error log instead. […]

  4. ogs Comment posted Thursday, January 15, 2009:

    Thanks for wordpress tips. I am use list to latest post for 404 pages.

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