Are You Wordpressed?

I found another neat plugin that I have integrated into this site.  It’s called Smart 404 for Wordpress, and can be found HERE.

When visitors arrive at your site, instead of seeing an error 404 page, Wordpress will search for whatever search terms they were looking for, search posts for tags and meta deta and take them to a post that is whatever it deems closest to what they were looking for.

LOL, I’m not quite bright enough to figure out how to test it, using a dummy search to come to a 404 page, but if anyone tries it with my site (if you would please, and know how) leave us a comment outlining exactly what you did so that we can try it to and see.

EDIT:  Michael, the author of the plugin stopped and gave me some helpful examples of what to try to see how it works.  Taken from his comment below.  Thank you so much, Michael!!

Try visiting http://areyouwordpressed.com/smart-404 or, say, http://areyouwordpressed.com/IntenseDebate. Or, to test the 404 page, http://areyouwordpressed.com/design perhaps.

Typical installation, only you FTP one single php file, rather than a folder and put it in the root of your plugins folder on your server.  Go to plugins via your website Dashboard and activate.  Under settings there will be a simple settings option for what exactly the plugin will search for the results.  I left it at the default settings.  Overall, pretty painless install.

It sounds like a neat idea.  What do you think?

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