[wp-testers] Um, Seriously?

[Alex Hempton-Smith]

Well, I would think it's more user friendly to have a 404 telling the user
that plugin doesn't exist, with the plugin name they were looking for
already populating a search box perhaps?
/extend/plugins/foobar, would have 'foobar' already populating the search
box on the "404 - Plugin not found" page.

Just my 2 cents I guess :)

-- Alex


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea to replace a 404 with a 301
> redirect, if you can redirect the user to a useful page. A search
> engine would likely eliminate the link when it ran across it, or
> internally combine it with the new link. It would get rid of the older
> link on search engines rather quickly, I assume.
>
> -Otto
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