Having real fun with a great many 404s being generated on my site of late.

I’m being informed of the missing URLs, because of this PHP code that I placed inside my own 404.PHP file.

<?php
$adminemail = get_option( 'admin_email' );
$website = get_bloginfo( 'url' );
$websitename = get_bloginfo( 'name' ); 
if ( !isset ( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_REFERER' ] ) ) 
{
// left blank ..
} 
elseif ( isset( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_REFERER' ] ) ) 
{
$failuremess = 'Heads up!<br />A user tried to go to $website ..<br /> [ ';
$failuremess .= $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ] . ' ] <br />';
$failuremess .= ' .. And received a 404 (page not found) error. <br />';
$failuremess .= 'It (probably) twernt their fault: so try fixing it, they came from ..<br /><br /> [ '; 
$failuremess .= isset( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_REFERER' ]) ? $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_REFERER' ] : 'Taz been spoofed' . ' ] <br />';
wp_mail( $adminemail, "Bad Link To " . $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ], $failuremess, "From: $websitename <noreply@$website>");
}
?>

No rems included, and I’m sorry if you can’t read it: not! – My advise – LEARN (!!!) – And then stop whinging!

Most of the reported errors are the results are from the poxy little minded “script kiddies” banging out their corrupt URLs; gleaned (then twisted) from my own site paths I might add, but some are from the main crawlers themselves.

Currently installed a plugin called:-

XML Sitemaps.

Which then promptly displays the following, ..

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