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I think it’s no secret that custom 404 pages can make a positive impact on users if done right. A good example of this comes from Reddit. They allow their users to create images for the 404 page. I have searched this forum and I see that I need to go into the code to do this. What I want to know is how hard is it to just have a drop down in the customizer or something to select which WP page I want to use as the 404?
I want to use images on my 404 page and have some fun with it so I can make a frustrated search a bit more easier on the eyes rather than a plain 404 page. So I would like to go to Pages>Add New>Make a 404 page, then go to settings or Customizer and select that page to display on a 404.
Is this possible? I think this would be a pretty enticing feature for serious website creators.
Great question. I’d love to see this happen!
Thanks Shaun. I am sure if they did a poll that this would easily make the top 5 requests.
Hi Guys,
This is a really nice feature and noted! But there are still many points to consider. This is nice with visual composer, though it can’t be integrated for custom editor.
Maybe we could implement it, but just using normal editor. Let’s see! 🙂
Thank you for this suggestion!
Normal editor would be just fine. 404’s should be simple anyways.
Yes, added on my list. Thank you.
Cool, great idea!
Yes Stefano!
Would LOVE this!
Noted guys 🙂
Any chance this will be done soon. It’ll make a big difference – so can you give us a clue if/when we’ll be able to customise our own 404 pages.
THanks
Hey Arthur,
We’re sorry but we currently have no ETA. Please stay tuned for future updates and our changelog.
Thank you for understanding.
I think it would be a great idea. Can’t wait to see it in action.
Stay tuned for updates George. 🙂
Desperate for this also. I noticed that there are plugins on WordPress.org for the Genesis theme, which allow pointing 404 at any internal page.
I also tried a plugin called “Custom 404 Error Page” which doesn’t work. It doesn’t follow any of the page settings, i.e. the checkbox for “Don’t display page title”, etc. The body text displays only the first few lines, which are then truncated with an ellipsis. No link to see the rest. Handy.
This just seems like a dumb problem for any theme to have. There should ALWAYS be an option to redirect any 404s to a normal, fully functional and actual site page without all the clowning about. Hard-coding “Oops!” deep into the theme is really bad. Particularly when my client thinks I wrote it!
