Scott Nelle

Stop 404 Guessing prevents the WordPress Canonical Redirects feature from guessing what page a user might have wanted when they encounter a 404 error. Instead, it will show your 404 template, which may be less confusing and more helpful to the user as well as giving you an opportunity to track the source of the 404 with your analytics package and remedy the issue.

Stop 404 Guessing

Prevent WordPress from guessing what a user meant and just show a 404 page.

Brad Parbs

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Quickly output a 404 for static files that aren’t found, rather than loading the normal 404 page.
Any static files ( images, text, pdfs, etc ) that don’t exist will 404 as soon as possible, rather than loading the entire WordPress application.
<h3>Details</h3>
By default, the list of extensions to check are the results of <code>wp_get_ext_types</code>, but can be filtered with <code>static_404_extensions</code>.
The output is a static page with the text <code>404 Not Found</code>, this text can be edited by filtering <code>static_404_message</code>.
A 404 status code will be used, but can be filtered with <code>static_404_response_code</code>.
Passing true to <code>static_404_should_process_request</code> will short-circuit and skip processing the request. This filter gets passed the current request.

Static 404

A WordPress plugin to quickly send a 404 for missing static files.

Stop 404 Guessing vs Static 404