[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2996: Content-managed error pages (particularly for 404 errors)

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#2996: Content-managed error pages (particularly for 404 errors)
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 Reporter:  wnicholls       |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.1      
Component:  Administration  |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:                  |  
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Changes (by wnicholls):

  * summary:  Add option for special page ('404') when URL does not match
              any page or post => Content-managed error pages
              (particularly for 404 errors)

Comment:

 RuddO: yes you're right, I got a bit confused because I started writing
 this as a comment on #2515 but changed my mind halfway through, decided
 this was a separate enhancement.

 404 pages are of course well-documented at
 http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Error_404_Page, but as I understand
 it that doesn't allow editing of the page content in Wordpress, unless the
 theme author codes in some kind of get_post() call. A full-blown "page"
 object would be very useful: it could still use a custom template (in fact
 that may be desirable).

 I do realise on thinking this through that there may be real ramifications
 for this (eg broken themes), but that's why I logged this as an
 enhancement separate to other tickets.

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