Title: 404 errors
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# 404 errors

 *  [MarionFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marionfw/)
 * (@marionfw)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-55/)
 * I get a lot of 404 errors in the security Log Data referring to url’s that don’t
   exist. (My website is [http://www.waternatuurlijkgrootsalland.nl](http://www.waternatuurlijkgrootsalland.nl))
 * For example: /de-fractie/hans-de-jong/colofon
 * The first part is the normal url: [http://www.waternatuurlijkgrootsalland.nl/de-fractie/hans-de-jong](http://www.waternatuurlijkgrootsalland.nl/de-fractie/hans-de-jong)
 * The last word “colofon” is added for some reason I cannot track. There was a 
   page “colofon” I linked to from the footer in html-code, i.e. in the Theme Hueman–
   Theme Options – Footer – Footer Copyright (because I didn’t want a footer with
   widgets because of the size they have).
    Obviously, this caused the problem, 
   so I remoeved the link from the footer, and even deleted this page. I also deleted
   cache, and synced the .htaccess file, but I still get these 404 errors.
 * I do hope some can explain and help!

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 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-55/#post-5727295)
 * Hi MarionFW. Here’s a [Google article](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2409439?hl=en)
   that might help. And [this thread](http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/63024/massive-404-attack-with-non-existent-urls-how-to-prevent-this)
   might have some related information.
 *  Thread Starter [MarionFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marionfw/)
 * (@marionfw)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-55/#post-5727309)
 * Hi BDBrown, thanks for the information. I understand that 404 errors are not 
   harmful, so that’s a relief, although it’s a bit annoying to have 50 or more 
   errors per day.
    I still wonder what could be done in the theme settings te prevent
   these errors. I suppose I should get a proper eduction on WordPress to find out
   🙂
 * I anyone has a suggestion where to look for a solution, I would appreciate.

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 * Last reply from: [MarionFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marionfw/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-55/#post-5727309)
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