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404s

wordpress 404s plugin will fix broken links and broken images for you, this is all in one solution for 404 page not found errors. πŸ™‚

Active installs10+10+ tier
Downloads Β· 30d92β–² +13.6% vs prev. 30d
Ratingβ€”0 reviews
Health score23/100At risk
All-time downloads3.6KSince Dec 2016
Support resolvedβ€”No recent threads
RequiresWP 3.2PHP any
Downloads Β· 7d9β–Ό -70% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

404s shows warning signs in 2026 β€” compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites and was last updated 3 years ago, and scores 23/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (10+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in 2 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 6.4 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

246Jul 14Aug 27Oct 11
Yesterday1
Daily average (1y)3
Peak day13May 5, 2026
Last 12 months920

Download spikes usually follow a new release β€” each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where 404s stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
404 >100 2,744 Best 404 plugins β†’
404 redirect >100 1,239 Best 404 redirect plugins β†’
broken link >100 3,189 Best broken link plugins β†’
page not found error >100 4,082 Best page not found error plugins β†’
redirect >100 7,122 Best redirect plugins β†’

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 3.5100.0%

About 404s

From the official readme Β· v3.5.9

Description

wordpress 404s plugin will fix broken links and broken images for you, this is all in one solution for 404 page not found errors. πŸ™‚

πŸ‘‰ Free Download | 404s Document | 404s Support| Support Forums

Features of WordPress 404s Plugin:

Automatically log each 404 pages, referrers URL, IP, browser…, opt to mail 404s alert to admin, create post for each 404 url manually, redirect 404 to home page or any url using 301…, help you fix broken links and stop 404 Page Not Found happen again.

404s Features:

  • 404 Logs: help you fix broken links, in settings panel, you can view logs for each broken links, include broken URL, referrers URL, User IP, User Agent, Browser, Date… and so on. WordPress 404s plugin will not trace bots, spiders, crawlers, for example google bot or bing bot…etc
  • Fix broken images automatically: broken image is not good, you can opt to use a existed specific image to replace broken images in your wordpress.
  • Fix broken links:you can create a real post for each broken links, for example, you can create a post your.com/best-apple-iphone for the broken link your.com/apples, and create another post your.com/buy-iphone for broken link your.com/buy. In backend, you can edit / delete / manage / customized 404s posts, also you will find 404 menu item “Add New”, in which you can create new post manually and assign this post with a 404 url via “what is the 404 URL” metabox
  • Options to automatically redirect 404 page to wordpress home page: 404 users is vauleable too, in “404 Global Settings” panel, you can set up to redirect 404 error page to home page.
  • Options to automatically redirect 404 pages to any existed pages: do not waste user traffic, redirect 404 pages your existed URL will keep 404 users stay on your site, in “404 Global Settings” panel, you can set up to redirect 404 error page to specific posts or not, by default, we will use wordpress default 404.php template as 404 page, but in back end, you can enter any URLs as 404 page, 404 users will be redirected to your specific URL automatically, you can enter any URL in the filed, it can be your landing page, shop page, login page, category…. and url, even URL of another site!
  • Options to automatically send 404 error email notification: 404 bad links is bad for SEO rank of your site, 404s mail notification will help you fix 404 page errors asap, in “404 Global Settings” panel, you can opt to send 404 URL alert to webmaster’s mail box, by default, this function is disabled, but if you enabled 404 not found error mail notification function, wordpress 404s plugin will send 404 alert to admin email when it happen, also you can change the default admin email as any email address
  • Options to automatically redirect 404 pages to your pages using 301 or 302: using 301 redirect will improve your SEO rank, because search engine will index your 301 links, I recommend you enable this option to use 301 redirect. In “404 Global Settings” panel, you can set up to redirect 404 users with 301 moved permanently status code or 302 status code, by default wordpress 404s plugin will follow wordpress default function to use 302, you can opt to use 301 redirect 404 ereor not found pages.
  • Options to delete 404 logs: by default, wordpress 404s plugin will store 404s logs in mysql database, in “404 Global Settings” panel, you can one click to delete all 404 logs, also we are developed a new version to allow admin export 404 logs
  • Options to stop add new 404 logs in database: by default, wordpress 404s plugin will trace all 404 page not found error URLs and insert these 404 error logs into database, you can stop adding 404 error logs in mysql database
  • 404 logs paginate navigation: in 404s menu item, you can view all 404 logs in 404s lists, we have added paginate navigation for help admin check 404 pages easier, and avoid load too many records from mysql database in one time
  • Export 404s records to CSV: you can export all 404 pages with user informations to CSV file, CSV file can be used in excel, you can use excel to sort & analyze 404s error pages and 404 users, in “404 Global Settings” panel, just click “Export 404s” menu item to export 404s records into CSV file.

> * more…

Please note, if you set up “redirect 404 error page to specific posts” option and “redirect 404 error page to home page” option at the same time, the priority of “redirect 404 error page to specific posts” option is higher than “redirect 404 error page to home page” option

More amazing features are being developed and any feature request is welcome.

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  • WordPress 404s Plugin Change log

    = Version 3.5.9 =

    Corrected an error of new users having no data and another issue

    Version 3.5.1

    follow wordpress security standard to use esc_attr to escaped all output
    use sanitize_text_field to check and filter $_SERVER and $_REQUEST…etc too
    Thank You for guidance

    Version 3.4.9

    fix problem in “Stop Insert New 404 Log Records into Database”
    fix option “Clear 404 logs now”
    follow wordpress security standard to use sanitize_text_field to enhance security for field values which submit by super admin in wordpress admin
    Thanks for the report

    Version 3.4.1

    How to fixed broken images in wordpress automatically

    Version 3.3.5

    Support wordpress 5.5
    Removed unused functions and comments, removed debug codes, clean codes, clean unused css codes

    Version 3.3.3

    wordpress 404s plugin support multiple language, we use load_plugin_textdomain() to load plugin’s translated srtings, you can translate it with your language and put your .mo file in languages folder

    Version 3.2.9

    • New option in 404 Settings Panel: “Stop Insert New 404 Log Records into Database”, if you enable this option, we will not trace / record new 404 page URLs into site database
    • Improved 404 plugin menu item

    Version 3.2.5

    Support create post for each 404 error urls via wordperss editor, for example, you can create a post your.com/best-apple-iphone for the 404 error url your.com/apples, and create another post your.com/buy-iphone for 404 error url your.com/buy
    In backend, you will find new menu item “All 404s”, in which you can edit / delete / manage / custom 404s posts
    Also you will find new menu item “Add New”, in which you can create new post manually and assign this post with a 404 url via “what is the 404 URL” metabox

    Version 3.1.3

    Export 404s records to CSV: you can export all 404 pages with user informations to CSV file, CSV file can be used in excel, you can use excel to sort & analyze 404s error pages and 404 users, in “404 Global Settings” panel, just click “Export 404s” menu item to export 404s records into CSV file.

    Version 3.0.3

    Added more detailed description in setting panels to hlep users setp up easier

    Version 2.9.3

    In “404 Global Settings” panel, option to set up to redirect 404 error page to specific posts, if users enter an error page url, when they open the 404 error pages, they will go to be redirected to your specific page, it can be your landing page, shop page, login page, category…. and url, even URL of another site!

    Version 2.8.3

    Option to send 404 URL alert to webmaster’s mail box, you can enable or disable 404 alert in 404 global settings panel
    If you enable 404 error alert email notification, you can customize the email address which used to receive 404 errors notification

    Version 2.5.5

    In wordpress 404s settings panel, added “Redirect 404 with 301 moved permanently status code or 302 code” option box
    Added more description

    Version 2.4.7

    Fixed a php warning in log, which generated in paginate links of “404 Page Not Found Log” panel, caused by a few site did not use https

    Version 2.4.5

    Fix the php warning in apache log, which caused by some pages have no $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]

    Version 2.4.3

    In 404s trace page in admin area, added paginate navigation links, if the number of 404 records more than 20,
    we will show paginate navigation links at the bottom of the 404s page, you will see navigation links pre, 1,2,3…, next.. and so on
    per page will show 20 404 records

    Version 1.4.3

    Support redirect 404 error page users to custom url
    In 404s Global Settings panel, you will find the in the select box “Redirect 404 to HomePage”, we added new option “Custom URL”,
    if you select “Custom URL”, URL input box will shown under the select box, you can enter custom url in here,
    if you select other options in the select box, the url input box will be hide
    in front end, when users view a page which do not exist, he will be redirected to the custom url

    Instead of ‘wp_redirect’ function, we use wp_safe_redirect with 301 status to get a better and safe redirection for users and improve seo rank

    Version 1.2.1

    opt to redirect 404 error page to home page
    You will find “Redirect 404 to HomePage ? ” option box in “404 Global Settings” panel, opt to redirect 404 error page to home page, so users come from search engines will not open 404 errror pages, they will go to home page directly

    Version 1.1.1

    Improved design in back end 404 trace page, will not messed up again when user enter a very long URL

    Version 1.0.9

    Added “Global Setting Panel” in admin area
    You can remove 404 Logs now
    When change settings in admin area, we will show a notify bar after the settings changed successful
    Improved UI in setting panel
    Fixed the bug of UI messed up when emptyed log

    Version 1.0

    • Spell out that the license is GPLv3
    • Finished the first version
    • General code clean up

    Installation

    1:Upload the 404s plugin to your blog
    2:Activate it
    3: You will find 404s menu item in admin area, just click 404s menu item, you can find all 404 records in a table.
    1, 2, 3: You’re done!

    Changelog

    Version 3.5.1

    follow wordpress security standard to use esc_attr to escaped all output
    use sanitize_text_field to check and filter $_SERVER and $_REQUEST…etc too
    Thank You for guidance

    Version 3.4.9

    fix problem in “Stop Insert New 404 Log Records into Database”
    fix option “Clear 404 logs now”
    follow wordpress security standard to use sanitize_text_field to enhance security for field values which submit by super admin in wordpress admin
    Thanks for the report

    Version 3.3.5

    Support wordpress 5.5
    Removed unused functions and comments, removed debug codes, clean codes, clean unused css codes

    Version 3.3.3

    wordpress 404s plugin support multiple language, we use load_plugin_textdomain() to load plugin’s translated srtings, you can translate it with your language and put your .mo file in languages folder

    Version 3.3.1

    Follow wordpress standard to imporoved menus of wordpress 404s plugin

    Version 3.2.9

    • New option in 404 Settings Panel: “Stop Insert New 404 Log Records into Database”, if you enable this option, we will not trace / record new 404 page URLs into site database
    • Improved 404 plugin menu item

    Full changelog on WordPress.org β†’

    Screenshots

    404 global settings panel
    404 global settings panel
    404s Log Panel
    404s Log Panel
    Create post for each 404 error page not found URL
    Create post for each 404 error page not found URL
    Manage 404 posts
    Manage 404 posts
    Export 404s logs to excel csv file for SEO analyze...
    Export 404s logs to excel csv file for SEO analyze...

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    FAQ

    404s: quick answers

    Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

    Live data from WordPress.org Β· checked Oct 12, 2026

    Is 404s free?

    Yes. 404s is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

    Is 404s safe to use in 2026?

    404s shows warning signs in 2026 β€” compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites and was last updated 3 years ago, and scores 23/100 on our health check.

    How many websites use 404s?

    404s is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 3,556 times since it launched in December 2016. It was downloaded 92 times in the last 30 days.

    Does 404s work with WordPress 7.1?

    404s is officially tested up to WordPress 6.4.13, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

    When was 404s last updated?

    The latest version, 3.5.9, was released on February 7, 2024 (3 years ago).

    Who makes 404s?

    404s is developed and maintained by Tomas.

    What are the best alternatives to 404s?

    The most popular alternatives to 404s are Redirection (2M+ installs), Broken Link Checker by AIOS… (300K+ installs) and Smart Custom 404 Error Page (100K+ installs).

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