# 404 page

Source: <https://docs.ictsviluppo.example/dossier/sections/main-404/>

The 404 page is what customers see when they open an address that doesn’t exist in your store: a mistyped link, a product you deleted, an old URL from a newsletter. It tells them the page wasn’t found and gives them three ways to carry on: search, continue shopping, or go back to the home page. It is used only on the 404 page template.

## Change the words on the page

The title, the explanation and the link labels (“Page not found”, “Continue shopping”, “Back to home”) aren’t settings: they come with the theme and are translated into every language your store uses. To reword them, edit the theme’s default content in **Online Store > Themes > Edit default theme content** in your Shopify admin.

## Help customers find what they were looking for

**Show search** adds a search field below the explanation. It opens your store’s search results page, like the search in the header. Leave it on unless your catalog is very small: a customer who followed an old product link usually knows what they want.

**Continue shopping** always leads to the page with all your products, and **Back to home** to your home page.

## Add products below the message

The section is only the message. On the 404 page template, new arrivals and recently viewed products already sit below it, in the [Featured collection](https://docs.ictsviluppo.example/dossier/sections/section-featured-collection) and [Recently viewed](https://docs.ictsviluppo.example/dossier/sections/section-recently-viewed) sections. You can change, reorder or remove them, and add other sections, like on any other template.

## Keep old links working

When you change the handle of a product, collection or page, or delete one, links to the old address end up here. Add a [URL redirect](https://help.shopify.com/manual/online-store/menus-and-links/url-redirect) in your Shopify admin to send them to the new page instead.

## Settings

| Setting | Type | Default | Options |
| - | - | - | - |
| **Show search** | Checkbox | On | — |
| **Use full page width** | Checkbox | On | — |
| **Color scheme** | Color scheme | scheme-1 | — |