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Solution: Custom 404 page

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Solution: Custom 404 page

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Here's where the 404 page started, and here's my finished 404 page. I started by finding the right template. And we can use the template hierarchy to do so. There's a 404.php in the template hierarchy, and our parent theme already has that file. All we have to do is copy it over. Then, I wanted to search for a nice image. I love using Unsplash since everything there is royalty free. You can use any images without any stipulations. I found this image, which I then imported into an image editing program like Photoshop to remove the background, resize it, and crop off the edges. We're going to use this image on the right-hand side, so the line of text isn't so long. Speaking of which, this is very boring text, so let's reword this. So I'll go to my code. Let's take a look at 404.php. And I reworded it to, you know, "We couldn't find the page you were looking for," and "It probably got lost in the baking supplies." I like a little bit of humor on my 404…

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