{"id":23243,"date":"2022-02-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/?p=23243"},"modified":"2025-07-12T19:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:43:33","slug":"redirect-404-to-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/redirect-404-to-homepage\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Redirect 404 To Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;If you want to redirect all the old posts and pages and 404 errors on a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WordPress<\/a> site to the home page. Today we will show how to redirect 404 to homepage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bg-light wp-block-paragraph\">You Might Also Like How to <a href=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/submit-website-to-google-search-console\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/submit-website-to-google-search-console\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit website to Google Search Console<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"redirect-404-to-homepage\">Redirect 404 To Homepage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To redirect all posts and pages even custom post type 404 errors to the homepage, you need to follow the below steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"step wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Open the WordPress dashboard. Go to Plugins &gt; Add New &gt; Search Redirect 404 to Homepage &gt;Install and Activate &#8220;Redirect 404 to Homepage&#8221; plugin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Redirect-404-To-Homepage.webp\" alt=\"Redirect 404 To Homepage\" class=\"wp-image-23264\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"step wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> After plugins activation, you don&#8217;t need any configuration. It works properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"step bg-light wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If<\/strong> you are using the rank math SEO plugin then follow the below steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"step wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Go to rank math &gt; General Settings &gt; Redirections &gt; Click on Redirect to Homepage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Redirect-404-To-Homepage-plugins.webp\" alt=\"Redirect 404 To Homepage plugins\" class=\"wp-image-23270\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"step wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Last, Click on Save Changes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rank-Math-Save-Changes-Setting.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23278\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope this post helped you redirect 404 to homepage. If you still face an issue then comment below, definitely we will help you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bg-light wp-block-paragraph\">You Might Also Like Four Steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/create-a-robots-txt-file\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/create-a-robots-txt-file\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Create a Robots txt File<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;If you want to redirect all the old posts and pages and 404 errors on a WordPress site to the home page. Today we will show how to redirect 404 to homepage. You Might Also Like How to Submit website to Google Search Console Redirect 404 To Homepage To redirect all posts and pages even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}