Title: 404 Customizing Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # 404 Customizing * [jayperkins72](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayperkins72/) * (@jayperkins72) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-customizing/) * Hi, * I am running a site that routinely has posts that expire and thus no longer exist. So I need a good 404 page. * Is it possible to include the expired page’s title dynamically (using variables) into the 404 page? * For example, if an expired post was titled “2007 Is a Great Year” and someone ends up at [http://some-domain-name.com/2007-is-a-great-year/](http://some-domain-name.com/2007-is-a-great-year/) they will get a 404 page. * I would like to put the “2007 Is a Great Year” between

and make it part of the 404 page. Instead of, for instance, “Page Not Found” * If possible, how do I do this? What variable do I use? * Thanks for any help. I hope this made sense and is not too convoluted. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-customizing/#post-1307900) * `$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']` should give you the url that the user requested but if the page has been deleted from the database, there’s no way to finding out it’s original title. The best I think you can do is to try and extract the last part of the request url and try to build a human-readable pseudo-title from that. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘404 Customizing’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-customizing/#post-1307900) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics