Not a return to form as such. A return to formlessness and oddly enough it does fit. 4 Years have passed, time to catch up. Podcast 11:
Drag the above link into your iTunes ‘library’ (or Firefox Bookmarks / alternate Podcatcher) that’ll install the feed- you’ll now recieve the updates as/when we make ‘em. Or you can subscribe through the iTunes Store. Enjoy.
I don’t like the K2 404 page. You’ll only see this when the author (that’s me in this case) makes a fatal mistake or the hosting server has hiccups… but the basic ‘file not found’ page that ships with Wordpress’ most popular theme is awful. The problem is it doesn’t look like a warning page. It offers no additional options, simply points users in the right direction, basically says- “pff, work it out”.
What was not obvious to me was how to override this mess of a information page. How to do it? PHP includes? some form of redirect or did it involve .htaccess
No. To override the default K2 404, which is automatically generated from theloop.php all you need do is place an a file in your wordpress directory called 404.php
Wonderful. What do you think: metacomment.com/blog/404.php
I know there’s a magic plugin out there called ‘recommended posts’, I’d love to tie this in with the 404 page (using the faulty address as a starting point), to give suggestions. Maybe even implement live-search, perhaps a quick email to the blog’s author. Subject: Another 404
Two years ago I released a patched version of a great little Wordpress plugin called “Starred Review” by Marc Hodges. It didn’t really work that well, it still doesn’t rock the casbah but is now stable on Wordpress 2.7.
Download Starred Review for Wordpress.
You need to upload the starred-review folder and starred-review.php to your ‘plugin’ directory. There’s a readme file in the folder. A changelog too. Fun, eh? Notice (old Starred Review users) that the ‘badge’ code has changed (at least this is true with Wordpress 2.7.1), it is now:
< ?php starred_review_badge('limit', 'category'); ?>
Here’s the homepage: metacomment.com/starred-review/, I promise to upload some CSS magic, an installation tutorial and make good on some old ideas. Thank you!
