A helpful 'page not found' page with Elementor Pro
Replace the plain 404 page with one that matches your site and points visitors to search, your best pages and a way to contact you.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Time
- about 20 min
- Works with
- Elementor Pro
When someone lands on a missing page of my WordPress site they see a plain error. Build a 404 template with Elementor Pro instead: a friendly heading in [tone, e.g. light and short], a search box, links to [three pages, e.g. the shop, the menu and contact] and a button to [main action]. Use my site's colours and only widgets the site already has. Keep it as a draft until I have seen it, then make it the site's 404 page when I approve.
Already connected?
If SAR is already in your AI app, this is enough:
Build a 404 page in Elementor Pro with search and links to [pages], and wait for my approval.
What happens
- The AI app checks whether a 404 template already exists, so it changes that one rather than adding another.
- It checks which widgets the site has, including the search form.
- It saves the 404 template as a draft that shows nowhere yet.
- Making it the site's 404 page is approved in SAR with your password and can be undone.
- It opens a missing address in a browser afterwards and reports anything that looks broken.
Approvals involved
Worked out from the tools this recipe uses.
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What you get
Visitors who follow an old or mistyped link find their way back instead of leaving.
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Try it on your own site
Install the plugin, add SAR to your AI app and paste the prompt. Free to start.