404 page
What a visitor sees when they land on a page that doesn't exist — a mistyped address, an old link, a product you've deleted. Peregrine treats it as a second chance rather than a dead end.
Why it has a search box
Somebody reaches this page because they couldn't find something. A page that only says "not found" and offers a link home makes them start their search over. Peregrine puts a search box on it, so they can finish looking instead — it's the single most useful thing this page can do, and it's on by default.
Settings
Open the theme editor and switch the page selector to 404 page.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Heading | Leave blank for the theme's own wording, which is written to be human rather than technical. |
| Message | The line under the heading. Blank uses the default. |
| Show a search box | On by default, and worth leaving on — see above. |
| Collection | Optional. Pick one and a row of its products appears below the message, turning the page into a way back into your catalog. Nothing shows until you choose one. |
| Heading (products) | The line above that row. "Popular right now" by default. |
| Products to show | 2–8. |
A note on the big "404"
The oversized 404 near the top is decorative — it's hidden from screen readers on purpose. The page's real heading is the sentence beneath it, because "404" tells somebody using a screen reader nothing they can act on. It's a small thing that matters for accessibility reviews.
Testing it
Add any nonsense to your store's address — yourstore.com/not-a-real-page — and you'll land on it. The page returns a proper 404 status to search engines as well, so a missing page is correctly dropped from search results rather than being indexed as a real one.