404 Modifying Text
Okay, so now you know where the Title, Subtitle and actual body Text of the 404 page lives.
And, you can simply modify those items to change the verbiage around to something a bit more suited to your style and liking.
NOTE: A brief word of caution here......
You can modify the text, save it and then test it out. Well, IF you have a broken link somewhere to test with! LOL!
Don't worry, you won't lock yourself out of WordPress like with many of the other PHP (template) files if you mess up the syntax. This is simply for when an error occurs with a link.
But, it wouldn't hurt to copy that file in its entirety and keep it somewhere safe.
There are a couple of characters that the title, subtitle and text lines won't take. I think an apostrophe is one. So, you won't see a "contraction" in my wording. I changed "IF you're" to "IF you are" for example.
Okay, so now let's take it a step further and insert a cool graphic!
Remember, be funny, humor goes a long way!
"They may not always remember what you said, but they'll remember how you made them feel !" - author unknown (Peej said it here though!)
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Since a child theme works by overriding the coding in its parent theme, theme updates don't affect those overrides. (Updates only change the parent theme's files; there won't be any updating done to your child theme files.)
