CeeWP

<p>CeeWP Redirect 404 to Homepage is a lightweight WordPress plugin that automatically redirects visitors from non-existent pages (404 errors) to your homepage. This helps improve user experience and can potentially help with SEO by properly handling 404 errors.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically redirects 404 pages to homepage</li>
<li>Uses 301 permanent redirect for better SEO</li>
<li>Lightweight and fast</li>
<li>No configuration needed</li>
<li>Compatible with all WordPress themes</li>
<li>Follows WordPress coding standards</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Use This Plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Improve User Experience</strong>: Instead of showing a 404 error page, visitors are automatically redirected to your homepage</li>
<li><strong>SEO Friendly</strong>: Uses 301 permanent redirects which is the recommended way to handle redirects</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong>: No database queries or heavy processing</li>
<li><strong>Zero Configuration</strong>: Works out of the box</li>
<li><strong>Compatible</strong>: Works with all WordPress themes and plugins</li>
</ul>


CeeWP Redirect 404 to Home

Automatically redirects 404 (not found) pages to your homepage with a 301 permanent redirect.

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<h4>Main features of the plugin:</h4>
<ol>
<li>It supports multi-byte language (such as Chinese). It will not produce gibberish as some other excerpt plugins do.</li>
<li>The html tags in the original posts, i.e., the font styles, colors, hyperlinks, pictures and such are preserved in the excerpt.</li>
<li>For better readability, it displays 300 characters for each post on the homepage and 150 characters for each post on archive pages.</li>
</ol>


WP-UTF8-Excerpt

This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.

CeeWP Redirect 404 to Home vs WP-UTF8-Excerpt