Redirect to custom page on fatal error

  • Resolved Jan

    (@krugmedien)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    when a plugin or theme causes a fatal error, WordPress shows the message “there has been a critical error on your website”.

    Is it possible to redirect users to a custom error page in this case?

    Something like this:

    if ( is_critical_error() )
{
    wp_redirect( "https://mywebsite.com/critical.html" );
    exit;
}

    Thanks. ??

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  • Hi, this is possible.
    Create a php file named “php-error.php” in your wp-content folder.
    In this file just add your redirect

    Thread Starter Jan

    (@krugmedien)

    @benniledl thank you very much, that works!

    If anyone is interested, the php-error.php file is loaded from \wp-includes\class-wp-fatal-error-handler.php

    if ( defined( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR' ) ) {
  // Load custom PHP error template, if present.
  $php_error_pluggable = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/php-error.php';
  if ( is_readable( $php_error_pluggable ) ) {
    require_once $php_error_pluggable;

    return;
  }
}

    By default you can add a 404.php file to your theme.
    If you add this code to the php-error.php file, you can also include a 500.php in your theme:

    <?php 
$file = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/500.php'; 
if ( file_exists( $file ) )
{
  include( $file );
}
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