In my previous post “Google Webmaster Tools 404 Not Found” I told you that I’d be telling you how to set up a 301 redirect to redirect 404 not found pages to your main page.

How to redirect your WordPress 404 page

From within the WordPress dashboard click on appearance then editor.

Look on the right side for the 404.php file (404 template).

Click on the link and remove all the code in the box replacing it with the following code.

header(“Status: 301 Moved Permanently”);
header(“Location:http://www.ChangeToTheURL.com”);
?>

If you don’t have a 404.php file you can create one by making a text file with the above code in it and saving it as a 404.php then uploading it to your WordPress themes directory.

How to redirect links using a plugin

An alternative to this would be to use the Redirection plugin to redirect your links.

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