Lay Theme Forum

Hi @arminunruh I’m struggling to set up a custom 404 page in Lay Theme and I’m a bit confused about how Lay handles it.

Here’s my situation:
I cannot find any existing 404 page or template in the backend.

I created a normal page and named it “404”, but WordPress automatically changes the permalink to 404-2, which makes me think that a 404 page already exists somewhere — but I can’t find it anywhere in:
• Pages
• Templates
• Customizer
• Lay Theme settings

Also, when I add any random slug like:
https://energiebuero-hetschko.de/hpajdsapjdsaü
I don’t get a 404 page, instead, I always get redirected to the homepage.

PW: test

I also tried creating a 404 as a template, but I can’t find any way to assign a template to a page as 404.

Dont’ know if it helps but I use yoast free plugin for SEO.

Thanks in advance for your help!

ah perfekt! Thanks so much!! Worked! <3

https://energiebuero-hetschko.de/leistungen/
PW is: test

Hi @arminunruh ,

I’m trying to customize the page transitions on my site and I’m running into a scroll issue during AJAX navigation.

When switching pages, LayTheme keeps the scroll position from the previous page and then scrolls back to the top. I would like each new page to start at the top immediately, without showing any visible scroll movement.

What makes it confusing is that the behavior differs by browser:
• Firefox: works fine – the transition uses opacity and the new page appears only after it’s already at the top
• Chrome & Safari: the new page appears at the old scroll position first and then visibly scrolls to the top afterwards

So users can actually see the page jumping/scrolling up, which looks off.

Things I already tried:
• window.scrollTo(0,0) in the Head
• forcing .scrollTop = 0 on LayTheme containers
• overriding window.scrollTo()
• custom JS on page transition events

None of these worked.
In DevTools I can see that frontend.app.min.js calls scrollTo() after the new page loads, which seems to override everything.

My questions:
1. Is there a built-in LayTheme option to disable this automatic scroll behavior?
2. Is there a recommended way to force every new page to start at scroll position 0 with AJAX transitions?
3. Why does Firefox behave differently from Chrome/Safari here?

Thanks a lot for your help!