Enable 404's not soft 404's

[Casey]

Hi,

I’ve gone through the forums and have read that in a recent update the day pages with no events (e.g. 2015-07-03/) were change to return a soft 404 (HTTP 200), i need those pages to return a 404 error (opposite of what most people want it know). I would rather the site return a 404 than a page that isn’t relevant.

Is there somewhere in the code i can change the response code for these pages?

Thanks in advance.

[George]

Hey @Casey,

Thanks for reaching out. This is unfortunately a bit tricky to do 🙁 For a quick example, you can look at the code that we used to share in the past for changing our “Hard” 404s to a 200 status:


add_filter( 'status_header', 'tribe_no_event_404s_allowed' );

function tribe_no_event_404s_allowed( $status ) {
global $wp_query;

// If The Events Calendar hasn't loaded/is not activated we should not interfere
if ( ! function_exists( 'tribe_is_event_query' ) ) return $status;

// If the current query is not event related we should not interfere
if ( ! tribe_is_event_query() ) return $status;

// Convert 404s into 200s
if ( false !== strpos( $status, '404 Not Found' ) )
$status = 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK';

return $status;
}


Here, you’ll see that for Event Queries that return a 404 Not Found error, they are changed to the 200 status regardless of context.

But basically everything not-broken would return a 200 status, so you can’t use this approach for switching 200 status responses to 404 responses as easily.

I unfortunately cannot think of a way to pull of exactly what you mean – even with the fact that this behavior should only be limited to Day View items, there is unfortunately not enough context provided to determine whether a 200 response is because of a “true” success, or a “soft 404″…

Let me know what you think about all of this!

Cheers,
George

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