Title: Categorizing 404s
Last modified: September 18, 2021

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# Categorizing 404s

 *  Resolved [Ambyomoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * (@josiah-s-carberry)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-404s/)
 * A suggestion for augmenting the functionality of the 404 page:
 * I would find it useful to be able to categorize each record so as to more easily
   distinguish hackers; errors in search engines; other bots; errors in links in
   a site; and legitimate visitors who typed in an non-existent URL. Each of these
   cases has a different workflow to follow up on the 404.
 * The ability to do batch updates of such a category would make such functionality
   much more efficient.

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-404s/#post-14886563)
 * It isn’t straightforward to categorise URLs like that, but
    more useful information
   is planned for the future.
 *  Thread Starter [Ambyomoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * (@josiah-s-carberry)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-404s/#post-14886669)
 * Indeed. But it would be useful nonetheless to let the user categorize them manually.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-404s/#post-14886679)
 * Sure, and that is something that will come at the same time. It is still a considerable
   amount of work.

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 * Last reply from: [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-404s/#post-14886679)
 * Status: resolved