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1. amenitya
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I would like to have several different 404 error messages that display according to the url path they appear in.
   For example, here is a search for recipes that returns no posts:
   http://protogeo.info/wordpress_v2/recetas/resultados?prod=37
   I would like to change the error message to something more specific, and assumed I could do this by using conditional tags in my 404.php file, like this:

   <?php
     if is_page_template('page-recipe-results.php') {
         _e('No recipes match that category.','k2_domain');</p>
     } else {
         _e('Oh no! You\'re looking for something which just isn\'t here!','k2_domain');</p>
     }
   ?>

   However, that didn't work. I also considered that I might parse the directory from the URL path so that any 404 pages preceded by "http://protogeo.info/wordpress_v2/recetas/resultados" would return the recipe-specific statement, yet I couldn't get any value using $_SERVER['PHP-SELF'].
   Maybe there's a better approach I'm missing?

2. helpshop.com
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Does this help?
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

3. amenitya
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'll try it- thanks. But surely there is a non-plug-in solution to this???

4. amenitya
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Nope, doesn't work. I'm not trying to redirect from static URLs, but rather URLs that are passing a parameter to query_posts:
   http://protogeo.info/wordpress_v2/recetas/resultados/?prod=27
   Should not redirect if there are posts in category 27.
   I think maybe the solution involves the query itself rather than the 404 page..

5. amenitya
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Okay, it's embarrassing how simple the solution was, but I'll post it here in case anyone else is every as daft as me :). Just catch a query that returns no posts before entering the loop:
   <?php if (have_posts()){
   include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/theloop.php');
   }
   else {
   print "nope";
   }?>

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