Error 404 Handler

[benrusso]

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

[ccagle8]

agreed, this would be a great plugin - and this is the best month to create it too!! http://get-simple.info/create-a-thon/

[mvlcek]

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.