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Redirect 404 to Home Page – Custom URL

by danielbolander · Uncategorized

Redirect visitors away from broken 404 pages and send them to your homepage or any custom URL with a simple, lightweight setup.

⚠ Few reviews
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84 Health · B
Maintenance 100
Rating quality 76
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+220%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “4K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
4K–5K ≈4.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-09-19 · 1,380 observations

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
2d ago
Added
2019-10-10
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
7.0.1
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2025-06-26 3K+ → 4K+ up after 236 days in band
  2. 2024-11-02 2K+ → 3K+ up after 368 days in band
  3. 2023-10-31 3K+ → 2K+ down

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Redirect 404 to Home Page – Custom URL: 4K+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/redirect-404-to-home-page-custom-url