One of the templates that is often overlooked when creating a WordPress theme is the 404 template. The 404 template creates the 404 page that appears when a viewer follows a broken link or enters a garbage link in the address field in their browser. You can see an example by following this link which obviously goes nowhere: http://mor10.com/lskdjlfkjowihev
In the rush to release Anaximander and my most recent lynda.com course WordPress: Building Responsive Themes the 404 template in the starter theme got a bit mangled. I was made aware of this by one of my viewers and we are updating the lesson files as we speak. If you’ve already started on the course or are using Anaximander for your site, I’m providing the fixed file here for you to download and install directly.
Click here to download the zip archive with the 404.php file.
To install the new 404 template unzip the archive and place the new 404.php file inside your Anaximander-Static folder replacing the old one.
The new 404 template is similar to the search template: It provides a simple message saying something went wrong and then offers up the 12 most recent posts as an option to the visitor.
5 replies on “Updated 404 template for Anaximander”
That was quick, thanks
wow !!! its look good 🙂
i have to change the code. thanks sir 🙂
Good share, you topic is very great and useful for us…thank you
Hi Morten:
I have viewed all of your lynda.com courses and recently updated my website using the Anaximander theme. It works really well. Thanks for your continued support of the designer/developer community.
Hi Morten,
First of all excellent tutorial and theme! However, I seem to be running into a problem with the posts sometimes overlapping the widgets on the front page when the site is first viewed. If I reload the page by selecting the page title everything loads fine. Have you had anyone else mention this issue or are you aware of a workaround to prevent this from happening? Thanks in advance.