Title: Page generating incorrect 404 errors
Last modified: December 14, 2016

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# Page generating incorrect 404 errors

 *  [fpmortimore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmortimore/)
 * (@fpmortimore)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/)
 * Hi, I wonder if anyone can share a solution to my problem. I’ve recently updated
   a site and in the process created new pages however despite those new pages being
   live and in my /page-sitemap.xml, I’m getting this message in Webmaster tools
   console:
 * Googlebot couldn’t crawl this URL because it points to a non-existent page
 * A curl check (???) has been performed by a plugin support team and they’ve confirmed
   that a 404 error exists in the header. But they are not sure why the page is 
   generating a 404 error.
 * Can anyone suggest a way of clearing these incorrect 404’s from my pages?

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 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8551203)
 * Can you share a link to one of these pages?
 *  Thread Starter [fpmortimore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmortimore/)
 * (@fpmortimore)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8551677)
 * Here’s one:
 * [http://www.bereadytoparent.co.uk/maternity-nurse-courses/](http://www.bereadytoparent.co.uk/maternity-nurse-courses/)
 * Thanks
 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8551833)
 * Hm, this is very strange. I’m not getting a 404 code when I put the site through
   [http://httpstatus.io](http://httpstatus.io), but the body does have the class
   error404, which suggests that WordPress’s body class functions think it’s a 404.
   I also can’t see the page listed in your sitemap: [http://www.bereadytoparent.co.uk/page-sitemap.xml](http://www.bereadytoparent.co.uk/page-sitemap.xml)
 * Is this page listed when you go to Pages from the Dashboard? Or is it created/
   managed somewhere else?
 *  Thread Starter [fpmortimore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmortimore/)
 * (@fpmortimore)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8551875)
 * Hi, thanks for responding. The page is in the site map (3rd from bottom) and 
   it is listed when I go to Pages from the Dashboard. I’m assuming that most of
   my pages have the same error as Google has only indexed 6 out of 53.
 * Do you have any suggestions as to what is causing the strange error?
 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8551895)
 * So it is. Sorry, must’ve missed it.
 * My only suggestion would be to deactivate plugins one by one until the issue 
   resolves itself (if it does), leaving whichever plugin is creating your xml sitemap
   until last.
 * Since waiting for Google to try to crawl them again each time would take a long
   time, I’d just [inspect the page source](http://www.wikihow.com/View-Source-Code)
   and keep an eye our for the `error404` class on the body. It seems like it correlates
   with your issue, so would be a good way to tell which plugin is the problem.
 * It looks like you’re using a caching plugin. I’d deactivate that first so changes
   made by deactivating other plugins show up right away (and who knows, it might
   be the culprit).
 * If that doesn’t work, try switching to a different theme and checking the class
   again.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/).
 *  Thread Starter [fpmortimore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmortimore/)
 * (@fpmortimore)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8552161)
 * You’ve been very helpful thank you. I’ve may have discovered the plugin that 
   was causing the issue. Would you mind taking a look at that page again and see
   if the error404 has gone?
 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8552168)
 * Yep. Gone.
 * Let us know if this helps with Google, and what plugin was causing the issue.
 *  Thread Starter [fpmortimore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmortimore/)
 * (@fpmortimore)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8555446)
 * Oh dear, I asked a plugin support team to run the cURL test again and the page
   is still returning a 404.

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 * Last reply from: [fpmortimore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmortimore/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-generating-incorrect-404-errors/#post-8555446)
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