I don’t advise you do that as it can negatively affect your site. A 404 is the correct response for a page that doesn’t exist.
Thread Starter
Сергей
(@derevnya)
Is it better to create a 404 page and set an automatic redirect to a 404 page?
No, that would be worse. It’s better to let WordPress handle 404s as it does correctly by default.
Thread Starter
Сергей
(@derevnya)
You can lose traffic! What pages do you recommend specifying 404 – 301?
How can you lose traffic?
If you have a page that has moved then you should redirect it to the new page. Otherwise, what WordPress does by default is the correct behaviour.
