Silly new 404 message
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So I notice that one of the cutsie new additions is a silly new 404 message that says something like “Oh, this is so embarrassing, I can’t find your file”, which is not really how I want to present myself.
I’m not embarrassed, it’s just a 404.
Is there any way to edit the error message displayed when content is not found?
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That exact text doesn’t sound familiar to me, but it’s possible for themes to each setup their own 404 pages with messages decided by the theme author. I know of several older themes that have text like “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?” on them. I’m not sure if you’re seeing the message you quoted on a theme’s 404 page or some other page. There is also a Firefox error page that goes something like “Well, this is embarrassing” when it has trouble recovering tabs after a restart. If you’d like further help looking into it, please post an example link or post a screenshot showing the entire browser window.
I tried testing a few 404 pages myself to see if I could find the message you’re referring to. For example, I looked at https://wordpress.com/this-page-does-not-exist but the message I saw on that page said, “Sorry, the page you were looking for doesn’t exist or has been moved. Check out some of our popular tags, read some recent news, compare plans, or just search for something else.”
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Thank you kindly. It must be a theme response. I shouldn’t have assumed it was across the board. I’m using Suburbia on the blog in question, and yup, it was just the standard 404 message, customized to say : “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?”
It’s the last thing I want my blog to say on a 404, but man, I love the Suburbia look. I pay for customization- I wonder if I get into that part of the code and edit it?
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You can’t edit the code, I’m afraid, but you can hide the title and/or add a different snippet of plain text using custom CSS if you have a Custom Design upgrade or one of the WordPress.com plans.
Here is an example 404 page from the Suburbia demo site for reference:
http://suburbiademo.wordpress.com/404Here is an example showing how to hide just the heading on 404 pages like that one you mentioned for the Suburbia theme:
.error404 #single h1 { display: none; }Add that example to your Appearance > Customize > CSS editor to try it out.
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