How to f@ckin 404 redirect to main page in wordpress

Wasted like 3 hours in finding this one out

I have loads of 404 pages on my wp blog. And I want to redirect all of them to my home page. How can I do this ?

The htaccess method won't work ..

Doing php redirect from my themes' index.php file won't do it as the the index.php first calls the header and using this code when there is no post(in case of 404 errors) gives the error while implementing the standard php redirect i.e

<?php
   header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");
   header("Location:http://www.ChangeThisURL.com");
?>

Code (markup):

The error on 404 page in wordpress -

Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output.. blah blah

Code (markup):

The wp theme doesn't have its own 404.php error page and 404 in handled in the index.php only through function <?php else : ?>

 

create a new 404.php

 

Try the redirection plugin:
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

 

I am having this problem but the plugin does not re-direct back to the main page. Can anyone help?

 

Looking for this as well.

 

I use this code and does the job for me.

When a visitor enters a dead link on one of my sites, it gets automatically redirected to the root (www.domain.com)

<?php

//Simple Redirect for WordPress. 
//Christopher Carey
//301 Redirect for Wordpress
//http://wwww.noheat.com

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: ".get_bloginfo('url'));

exit();

?>

PHP:

Make a php file and name this file "404.php" and upload this in the theme folder via FTP (NOT in your plugins folder!)

If there is already a 404.php file simply overwrite it with the new one.

 

GENIUS! PURE GENIUS! This Worked!!!!

Thank you!

 

*nods@ilook thank you

 

Glad it helped guys

 

i have been working around wordpress lately and this error that you get about headers sent out is mostly due to the white space above and below php closing an opening tags, so be careful , dont leave any space

 

This is working like a charm...

 

Hi folks, may be this thread will help?

forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1765914

 

Thanks!

This 404 code works great!

 

It's already solved by my solution posted above

 

That sounds really interesting. Will try it on my blogs. I have already added to your user reputation. Thanks

 

Thanks Kevoh99

 

Is there a plugin for this? Just curious.

 

This is what I use these days
http://atastypixel.com/blog/wordpress/plugins/smart-404/

 

use 404 redirection plugin, so simple

 

In wordpress did the 404 redirect in 404.php as shown in this thread... I get to main page but the relatively linked images have the erroneous "stub" in them...

There may be some OTHER config problem... I'm flummoxed.

Any help/advice appreciated.