Automatically redirect to the content the user was most likely after, or show suggestions, instead of showing an unhelpful 404 error.
As of April 2026, genius 404 is a WordPress 404 plugin with 10 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Redirection.
Save your visitors from unhelpful 404 errors!
Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches content that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were
after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, pages, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested
URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that content instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the
404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.
genius404_has_suggestions
Returns true if there are some suggestions, false otherwise
genius404_get_suggestions
Retrieve an array of post objects for rendering manually.
genius404_suggestions
Draw a list of suggested posts.
Pass the parameter “list…
| WordPress | 2.6+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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