28Oct
in WordPress, jQuery
Better 404 page: populate a search field with name of page not found
Ideally, you won’t have any 404 situations in your site. Of course, we all know this is far from being true and “Not found” pages on your site is a common situation that might arise from different reasons, ranging from bad or expired links to simple user typos. In these cases, you can and should build better 404 page by providing some information for them to find the content they were looking for. In this tutorial we will explore one way to build a more friendly 404 page by displaying the WordPress search field populating it with the terms used in the url written by the user.
