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Error 404 Handler - benrusso - 2012-03-13
Hello all,
Migrating to GetSimple or any other CMS means pages, site maps and files may get rearranged. Naturally, 404 errors are plentiful.
I'd love to see a plugin that handles errors with the following:
- Redirect with notice: "Page doesn't exist. Now redirecting to new location."
- Suggest alternatives: "Were you looking for this? Try this instead."
- General notices with specific information: "This information has been moved (to _here_)."
- Any other variations on error management.
On the back end, you could manually enter page comparisons between the old site and new site. For example:
- --old site info-- = --new site info--
- /oldfolder/oldpage.html = /newparent/newslug
- /oldfolder (and everything in it) = /newparent (and everything in it)
- Any other variations
If anyone is looking for a challenge, I'd love to see some sort of error management plugin available.
Thanks,
Ben
Error 404 Handler - ccagle8 - 2012-03-13
agreed, this would be a great plugin - and this is the best month to create it too!! http://get-simple.info/create-a-thon/
Error 404 Handler - mvlcek - 2012-03-13
benrusso Wrote:I'd love to see a plugin that handles errors with the following:
...
On the back end, you could manually enter page comparisons between the old site and new site. For example:
- --old site info-- = --new site info--
- /oldfolder/oldpage.html = /newparent/newslug
- /oldfolder (and everything in it) = /newparent (and everything in it)
- Any other variations
You could do all this in the .htaccess - and the user wouldn't even see the 404 page.
Or - if you have plain text URLs - you can feed the word(s) to the I18N Search plugin and present the search results.