Title: genius 404
Author: Hussam Hussien
Published: <strong>1. apr 2015</strong>
Last modified: 1. apr 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# genius 404

 By [Hussam Hussien](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hussam7ussien/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/genius-404.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://et.wordpress.org/plugins/genius-404/#installation)
 * [Development](https://et.wordpress.org/plugins/genius-404/#developers)

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## Description

Save your visitors from unhelpful 404 errors!

Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches content that doesn’t exist, 
make an effort to guess what they were
 after in the first place. This plugin will
perform a search of your posts, pages, tags and categories, using keywords from 
the requested URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that content instead of showing
the error. If there’s more than one match, the 404 template can use some template
tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.

### Template tags

_`genius404\_has\_suggestions`_

Returns true if there are some suggestions, false otherwise

_`genius404\_get\_suggestions`_

Retrieve an array of post objects for rendering manually.

_`genius404\_suggestions`_

Draw a list of suggested posts.

Pass the parameter “list” to render suggestions as a list.

_`genius404\_loop`_

Query posts for use in a Loop. Eg:

    ```
    <?php genius404_loop(); ?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    ```

Note that the loop will not display pages correctly, as it is not built to support
them. It is recommended that if you use
 a loop like that above, do not enable searching
of pages.

_`genius404\_get\_search\_terms`_

Retrieve an array of search terms used to populate the suggestions list, for use
with contextual highlighting, etc.

## Installation

 1. Unzip the package, and upload `genius404` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Place `<?php genius404_suggestions() ?>` in your 404 template to list suggested
    posts, or see ‘Template tags’ for more information.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Good idea with room to improve](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-idea-with-room-to-improve/)󠁿

 [philipjewell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philipjewell/) 3. sept 2016 1 reply

I went ahead and enabled the plugin as I did not want to write rewrite rules for
all my removed posts. Luckily it worked for one of the more important posts I had.
But for the other 3/4 of my posts, it did not work. Took me to the 404 page I was
trying to avoid. I would recommend something I feel is a simple task, for such a
plugin: if it doesn’t not have any similar matches under the categories, posts, 
or pages, to run a search based off the URI simply running like: mydomain.com/?s
=<uri> Just an idea I feel can make a huge improvement where the plugin lacks and
make it a more widely used plugin.

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## Contributors & Developers

“genius 404” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Hussam Hussien ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hussam7ussien/)

[Translate “genius 404” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/genius-404)

### Interested in development?

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## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **11 aastat ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/genius-404/)
 * Tags
 * [404](https://et.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/404/)[redirection](https://et.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/redirection/)
   [search](https://et.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://et.wordpress.org/plugins/genius-404/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Hussam Hussien ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hussam7ussien/)

## Support

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