Quick, simple, and effective.
We’ve been discussing recently about how important it is to catch and fix 404 errors that exist on your blog as well as any broken links that you’re also sending out to other sites.
Well, I’m pleased to announce the release of a must-have WordPress Plugin that can help you, my fellow blogging friends, from having any more 404 errors!
Repair 404 Errors WordPress Plugin simply notifies you of any page or file requests that a user (or search engine) makes to your blog.
If it can’t find the right file or page it captures that failed request into the plugin so that you can easily go and fix the issue manually.
After you fix the issue you can then hit the Repaired button to let the plugin know that you’ve handled the problem. Simple, right?
You can also easily test if the plugin is working (after installation) by simply requesting a bogus page on your site like this:
Just a random string of characters.
And then obviously that breaks and heads to a 404:
And then it shows is the plugin system:
There she is...!
Make sure you download it today and start optimizing your site for users and search engines by not having any 404 errors crop up on your blog!
Download it Here via the WordPress Repository! Of course, don’t forget to check out the other Free WordPress Goodies here!
Hi John,
Thanks for this post. I’ve already installed it and there are no 404 errors. Thanks so much. All I need to do now is figure out the 403 errors. Get busy on that plugin! You’re great!
ok…!
Cool plugin, I am going to download it right now and test it out.
sweet! how was your test?
Great plugin concept. Would you consider adding email notifications? That could be a cool feature!
Yes just what I need. Great plugin John very useful and I second that to the idea of email notifications as a feature.
cool. +1 vote!
this is a swell idea… let me think about it!
I think this will help me so much. I’m giving it a shot on several of my blogs, and will let you know!
sweet! let me know how it goes!
Well, due to all the great changes in blog structure I have made since I started reading your blog (no more tags, pretty URLs, etc, etc), I had over 500 404s!!!! Yikes.
But as I was looking through them wondering, “How long will it take to fix all these?” I noticed some recurring trends in hundreds of them.
So I did the quick fix and just wrote some permanent redirect rules in my .htaccess file. As you like to say…”Done and Done!”
dud,e you’re the man!
So, is this meant to be used instead of the ‘Broken Link’ plugin in talked about in your previous post, or in conjunction with it?
it can work in tandem, yes.
John, I’m confused and frustrated (mainly because today was one of those 17 hour work days) anyway, I spent a good portion of my day yesterday repairing broken links using your 404 plugin and the redirection plugin. It appeared that all went well except that I got home tonight and many of the links I repaired are showing up in the 404 plugin as broken again. I double checked and sure enough..they are broken again..I’m wondering..nope. gonna go sleep this one off for now LOL
Alright, now that I’ve had some sleep the “new” broken links are not exactly the same as the ones Ive already repaired..delete these 2 comments if you wish
Nice Plugin. Thanks for sharing
sure thing! share it with others!
John,
I was about to do the redirection until I landed on this post while searching for it.
On my Google Webmaster it says that I have 3,700 errors – that all happened because I deleted all my tags after I read that post and we spoke about it.
I installed your plugin and it said no 404 errors found. Which one do I believe?
google has to reset it’s counter and isn’t instantaneous.
Hello,
I’m testing your plugin and it breaks the javascript used by Tenzaku theme (http://www.tripleships.com/works/tanzaku/)
hmm. i’ll have to take a look.
Hi John, love everything you do. It is truly wonderful.
I installed all your word press plugins and now I have a 404 error page not found on a page that is clearly there. How can I find out where the problem is?
Thanks
Bruce
can you give me more info?
How do I manually fix a broken link? Do I just click on “Repair All” within the plugin?
um… go into the post and edit?
Easy to work with. Nice Plugin! Good job.
sure thing.
Hey John!
Love the plugin. I just noticed today that I am getting an error for admin.js
I went and deactivated all my plugins then one by one I reactivated them checking to see which one was causing the error. It seems that when I activate this plugin I get an error for admin.js — any idea as to why that is happening? I am using the most recent WordPress with Standard Theme 2.7
This is what shows:
jQuery(function($) {
$(‘.repair-link’).click(function(evt) {
evt.preventDefault();
var sUrl = $(this).attr(‘class’).split(‘ ‘)[1];
window.location = window.location + ‘&remove_page=’ + sUrl;
});
$(‘.repair-all-link’).click(function(evt) {
evt.preventDefault();
window.location = window.location + ‘&remove_page=all’;
});
});
It’s not a big deal but I wanted to share in case it was helpful for the update. Thanks for all you do!
cool. i’ll have to take a look.
Hi John,
I’ve uploaded TentBlogger’s 404 Repair plugin, but got this message:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homez.94/vosbesoi/www/wp-content/plugins/tentblogger-404-repair/plugin.php on line 131
Don’t know what to do !
Can you help me ?
Thanks
Good plugin I ever use. I will recommend my friends to use it.
good job
settle my problem
thank! :0
If we use 301 redirect for fixing these errors.. how it will work? I think you got my point that if we redirect the missing URL to some live one .. how Google will read it.. missing or live. Dilemma can u plz help.