I have recently changed my blog theme to The Seven Five is a semi-automatic “Lifestream” WordPress theme, the theme is great & I am luving  it. I added some pages like archives page, 404 error page. I could have added a plugin for a 404 page but I like to make a own custom 404 error page, you can check my 404 page.  It is very simple & you can do to just by doing the following steps

# Create a 404.php page in your themes folder if you do not have one. It’s best to use the same styles your blog so that it looks a part of the blog.

# Add the basic Add these basic code lines in your 404 file. The beast way is to put the same Header, footer lines & and insert content as u wish.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

These are some of the tags that you can use:

Display Archive by Months:

<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>

This code will display archive by months, but it will list all months.

Display list of Categories

<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

This code will list all categories on your blog.  you can style them however using list tags or others.

Display Recent Posts

<?php get_archives(’postbypost’, ‘17?, ‘custom’, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’); ?>

This shows the most recent Posts written on your Blog.

There are other tags too which can be used but these are the most basic ones to use.