Broken Link Checker for WordPress
Sometimes, links get broken. A page is deleted, a subdirectory forgotten, a site moved to a different domain. Most likely many of your blog posts contain links. It is almost inevitable that over time some of them will lead to a “404 Not Found” error page. Obviously you don’t want your readers to be annoyed by clicking a link that leads nowhere. You can check the links yourself but that might be quite a task if you have a lot of posts. You could use your webserver’s stats but that only works for local links.
So I’ve made a plugin for WordPress that will check your posts (and pages), looking for broken links, and let you know if any are found.
Download it now! (40 KB)
Note : This page, and the feature list below are slightly out of date as a major update has been released recently (see details). I’ll get around to updating this page eventually.
Features
- Checks your posts (and pages) in the background (whenever the WP admin panel is open ).
- Detects links that don’t work and missing images. Checks both internal and outbound links.
- Notifies you on the Dashboard if any problems are found.
- Link checking intervals can be configured.
- New/modified posts are checked ASAP.
The broken links show up in the Manage -> Broken Links tab. If any invalid URLs are found a notification will also show up in the sidebar on the Dashboard.
The Broken Links tab displays a list of invalid URLs found along with the relevant posts and the anchor text of the links. “View” and “Edit Post” do exactly what they say and “Discard” will remove the message about a broken link, but not the link itself (so it will show up again later unless you fix it; this plugin doesn’t modify your links).
By default all old posts/links are re-checked every 72 hours, or you can set a different time period.
Notes (Semi-Technical)
I realize there’s a lot of features that could be added to improve this plugin considerably. However, this release is intended to “test the waters” and see if there’s demand for a plugin like this, so I only implemented the most basic functions. The plugin has been upgraded to be slightly beyond “basic” 
I thought about using WP’s pseudo-cron to run the link checker by schedule and decided against it. AFAIK the cronjobs execute when a page is requested; since this plugin does some lengthy processing it may increase page load times unacceptably when used in this manner. That’s why I set it to run the checks asynchronously (AJAX) and invisibly in the admin panel.
Installation
Just like any other WordPress plugin -
- Download (see below).
- Unzip.
- Upload the broken-link-checker folder to you wp-content/plugins directory.
- Activate the plugin in the Plugins tab.
Upgrading
- Deactivate the plugin (important!).
- Do steps 1.-3. from “Installation”.
- Upload the broken-link-checker folder to you wp-content/plugins directory.
- Re-activate the plugin in the Plugins tab.
Download
Version 0.5.3 : broken-link-checker.zip (40 Kb)
Requirements
- WordPress 2.7 or later
- MySQL 4.1 or later
Starting with version 0.5 this plugin is only compatible with WordPress 2.7 and up. Older versions (e.g. ver. 0.4.14) should work with WP 2.1 – 2.6.x.
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just saying HI
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WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'hidden' in 'where clause']
SELECT count(*) FROM wp_blc_linkdata WHERE broken=1 AND hidden=0
No broken links found
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'a.hidden' in 'where clause']
SELECT b.post_title, a.* FROM wp_blc_linkdata a, wp_posts b WHERE a.post_id=b.id AND a.broken=1 AND a.hidden=0 ORDER BY a.last_check DESC
tony : Try deactivating the plugin and activating it again.
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I’m not sure if my previous message made it through, but I cannot get your latest, 0.2.2, version to work on my WP 2.3 installation. I can configure the settings, and the database does get your two tables, but it never actually checks the links. I’ve activated and deactivated and I have the same problem.
Peace,
Gene
I responded to your first comment here.
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Thanks for creating this plug-in – after installing WordPress I simply couldn’t understand why such a basic maintenance function is not included in the base package. Fortunately I stumbled upon your plug-in.
I upgraded to version 0.2.3 this morning but unfortunately it behaves just as erratically as the previous release – showing numerous (103 right now) and always changing ‘broken links’ that work just fine.
I cannot find any sensible explanation except that the plug-in might use time-outs to determine if a link is not there and that my site doesn’t respond fast enough. Could this be the case?
Yes, it does use timeouts – it has to set some limits so that the server isn’t overwhelmed by dozens of processes waiting for a page that might or might not load.
Currently the timeouts can only be changed by editing the plugin files. If you want to do this, look in the file wsblc_ajax.php, lines 229 – 230 (they contain the word “timeout”). The first number is the connection timeout (default = 15 seconds), the second is an “overall” timeout (default = 25 seconds). You can try setting higher timeouts.
If you give me a few examples of links that are reported as broken and yet work fine, I’ll try to find out what the problem is.
BTW, the list of broken links is always changing because existing links are re-checked every once in a while, plus links that are reported as broken are being rechecked several times to (hopefully) get rid of most false positives.
Eh, bugs :/
http://www.prepressure.com/postscript/troubleshooting/errors
There are loads of ‘missing links’ on this page but I am fairly certain the page is OK
I doubled those two time-out values but this does not solve the problem.
I am also troubled by ‘Error 500′ issues when using the ‘Broken links’ plug-in. This forces me to log-out of my Wordpress session – pretty annoying!
Forgot to mention that there is indeed a constant in the incorrect reporting of broken links: it typically happens on pages with 20+ links in them. Problem is that I have a few dozen of those on my site – with the above page holding over 100 links.
Of course I wouldn’t need your plug-in if I didn’t have loads of links on my site
Okay, I took some links from the page you mention and fed them into my local copy of the plugin… some of them turned out saying “broken”. I decreased the number of links in a single post to around 30 and they all checked out as not broken then… not good.
Some kind of timeout still seems likely. In addition to the network timeouts there’s also the script execution timeout, often enforced on shared servers – this causes any scripts that run for longer than X seconds be terminated. If the plugin is running over this limit it might behave inconsistently. I’ll look into it (might take some time). Meanwhile, set the timeouts you changed back to the defaults and see if changing the “session length” in the options tab to something in the range of 10 – 15 seconds is any help.
What about “Error 500″? How/when do you get those? I’ve never seen the plugin cause them myself.
The ‘Error 500′ messages appear at random but frankly scare the hell out of me.
Looking at temporary alternative solutions to check links I tried an online service (http://www.dead-links.com) a few minutes ago but that also reports error 500 issues!
I have deactivated your plug-in. As a fairly unexperienced Wordpress user, I have no idea what exactly is going on and don’t want to run into a situation that I cannot possibly fix myself without reinstalling. I guess it is better for me to stay away from beta plug-ins but once it gets a bit more reliable I’ll be back.
Eh, I usually try to fix any reported bugs, but diagnosing a random error on somebody elses site is, as you can probably imagine, very hard. So no guarantees.
I suspect third-party/hobbyist plugins in general tend to remain in “eternal beta”
Thanks – it works perfectly!
Suggestion:
Add a field/column: Status (published/ draft/ private/ pending moderation/ …)
Perhaps also allow filtering by status.
I have 211 broken links, but 175 are from 7 draft emails.
(They were published, but I had already found they were a mess, so the proper status is un-published – I wish we could designate them as such, not as drafts, but sorry, that’s not about your plugin.)
It would be easier to deal with the broken links if I could only address the published ones.
OR
Add an ignore list, so I can check a box, or copy and paste something, or if need be enter the post id#, so that those broken links won’t display, but a note will, reminding: “the following posts/pages are on your ignore list – they may contain broken links not listed above”.
Thanks again.
Thanks, and I’ve noted your suggestion. Though with the Christmas/etc coming closer I’m getting lazy, so don’t expect it to be implemented anytime soon
Here are a few false positives – the checker says these are broken, but they aren’t.
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Organic-Gardening-Prince-Charles/dp/0297844164/ref=sr_1_1/002-6538492-7010462?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190925978&sr=8-1
http://astore.amazon.com/gristmagazine/detail/1576753611/102-1183543-3665742
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090798/
http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/peint/inv0054/peint_f.htm
http://www.algds.com/
http://pressroom.pbs.org/photos/brain_fitness_merzenich?programid=the_brain_fitness_program_with_dr_michael_merzenich
(205 links correctly identified as broken, 6 falsely identified.)
On the wp-admin/options …, I selected Link Checker, then clicked “Recheck”. It returned “No broken links found”. Surely it should say “No new broken links found”.
Then I checked Manage – Broken Links, and this time it only showed 3 broken links. I re-loaded the page, and it showed 6, then 11, then 60 then 139, then 181, then 189.
All the above false positives appeared again.
And there’s one new false positive:
http://www.imagiscape.ca/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Breakfast+of+Champions
I checked some of these false positives and concluded they occur due to a bug. It was a relatively simple one and I think I have fixed it now. You can download the new version from this post (above). Or you could wait for the update notification which will appear in a few hours.
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Hi!
The link “View” at the broken-links don’t work to me.
I fix this with:
Please apply this patch to your next release.
$ cat broken-link-checker.php.patch
347c347
< post_id’ class=’edit’>View
—
> post_id).”‘ class=’edit’>View
I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as it is (it does on this site), but I’ll change it anyway – it won’t harm anything
Does it works on WordPress 2.3.2?
thanks…
Yes, it does. In fact, I just upgraded to 2.3.3 and it seems to be working okay.
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I want complain on XHTML validation when enabling this plugin with broken link CSS turned on. It says that broken-link bla-bla is not valid.
Here is the solution (may be author would add this to further versions):
1. Open broken-link-checker.php.
2. Find there string:
echo ”,$this->options['broken_link_css'],”;
3. Replace it with:
echo ”,$this->options['broken_link_css'],”;
4. Save and upload changed file on server.
Thats all! Thank you for your attention. =)
I TOTALLY LOVE this plugin… which is one of the most useful WordPress plugins I’ve come acrossed. I wish it would check broken links in comments… That would make it even more better.
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FYI: I changed my blog permalink structure and I use .htaccess file to redirect 301 all pages with the old permalink structure targetting to the new permalink structure, then I install BrokenLinkChecker.
BLC installed successfully BUT, this URL:
http://www.averagecoder.net/programming-tips/wordpress/how-to-easily-display-a-cute-google-map-inside-your-wordpress-post/
Which is working when you access it via web browser is identified as broken link by BLC.
I think it’s a good idea if BLC can works in conjunction with .htaccess rewrite rules.
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Daniel
I’m not entirely sure why it showed up as broken in your blog. Nevertheless, I’ve made some tweaks to the plugin and it should now handle that URL correctly. At least it does on my test blog
@White Shadow: You’re right, it seems to be working as expected. I am not sure why it reported false broken links before. I will keep monitoring the behavior .
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Daniel
Strange, it was working fine with older plugin version… then I updated to 0.3.2 today. Then it falsely reported 132 broken links. I checked all of of them and none of them were broken.
Even weirder, after activating the plugin, my WordPress Dashboard started loading very slowly, so I deactivated the plugin then “tried” to activate again and now I can’t activate at all… because I now keep getting this message:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
But now my WordPress Dashboard (2.3.3) is loading fine and fast. Hmm.
Strange. I suppose it could cause a slowdown in very specific circumstances (AJAX/broser/server configuration) while the links are checked.
Though I don’t see how it could “trigger a fatal error”. Hmm.
I updated to 0.3.2 and suddenly every link on my site became “broken” according to the plugin, but when I tried them, they all worked perfectly.
Nothing else changed apart from this update. The previous version worked perfectly.
Seems you’re not the only one to experience this. I’ll download 0.3.1 and 0.3.0 from the WP plugin database (there’s a link for “Other versions”) and try to find which change might have caused it.
On a related note, it seems that this plugin is now getting blocked by Bad Behaviour. Maybe that’s at least part of the problem?….
Hi. I installed the plugin and it appears to work fine with one exception. Once the plugin is activated, my system slows down to a crawl when navigating in the WordPress environment. As soon as I deactivate the plugin, everything is normal again.
It I’m using Version 2.3.3. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Dana Betz
Oops. Just realized others are experiencing similar problems. Thanks again for any help.
Dana
I don’t know why this happens, but my guess would be it’s something to do with the web browser. Try a different browser and see if it helps.
Graeme Says: March 13th, 2008 at 6:55 am
I updated to 0.3.2 and suddenly every link on my site became “broken” according to the plugin, but when I tried them, they all worked perfectly. Nothing else changed apart from this update. The previous version worked perfectly.
<<< Ditto me
Do you have any plugins/server modules that block bots? Some of them identify this plugin as a malicious bot, and will cause all of your links show up as broken.
Also, try the 0.3.3 version that I just uploaded.
<<>> yes- if Akismet and BadBehavior are what you mean… and it is imperative they stay as well.
<<>> where, please? at this writing 3.2 is linked above and on the WP Plugins Page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/
thx
RH
Damn, I suspected I had forgotten something. I uploaded the changes, but didn’t update the version information. It’s up now (wordpress.org will take 10-20 minutes to refresh).
I’ve got nothing against Bad Behaviour (which is probably the culprit here). However, I don’t think I’d be able to “fool” it into treating the plugin as harmless, now that BB has started blocking it.
0.3.3 is at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/ now – thx
0.3.3 is working ok for me – no apparent conflicts w BB –
thx
RH
Hi, I’d previously reported issues above that other people experienced (slow crawl, false broken links, etc.). Incidentally, I also have Bad Behavior plugin installed, so maybe that was a reason…
Anyway, you’ll be glad to know that I tried latest 0.3.3 and it seems to be working fine now…. for me. No false broken links, no weird activation issue (message that it could not be activated because it caused “fatal error”), etc. Great.
Thanks for the fixes. And thanks for releasing one of the most useful plugins that has ever been created for WordPress! It should be part of WordPress!
I just wish there was a feature/plugin that would check author links/any links in comments. I hate promoting broken links.
0.3.3 solved the problem. Only showing the one broken link that is actually broken, no false alarms and the admin pages speed seems fine in Firefox for me. Running several bot-blockers BB, Sabre, etc. and nothing clashing. Yeay
I tried this plugin but its giving me 408 Request Timeout all the time. What am I doing wrong? I mean its taking down my entire website. Any help would be appreciated.
moserw
http://www.nela.in/
@moserw : Maybe your hosting just can’t handle it. I don’t know of anyone who’s had a similar problem :/
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it might be an idea to add a notice or remove the download link, of the older version … it had me confused for a bit !
blc is great but its shows me every email-adress as broken link. Is there a feature not to look for emails but only for homepages?
Not yet, but I’ll add something soon. I’ll just make it ignore “mailto:” links.
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A very useful plugin!
I have found one small hitch though: I have a number of code examples (enclosed in
Thanks.
Yes, that seems doable. I’ll add it in the next version.
By the way, if you want the <code> tags show up in the comments here, you’ll have to write the angle brackets as < and >
While I don’t have the means to donate, I have put this plugin on my ‘whats new’ page and suggested WP users get it and install it.
I had to reinstall wp a few months ago after I hiccuped the mysql database. Many of my pages have links on the page to other parts of the blog. I felt just the category listing would mean too many clicks for viewers. So… the static links I had were out of sequence. I had corrected over 100 by hand over 3 months. This plugin found all of the remaining bad links I had been searching for in less than a day, 120 of them.
Thanks for a great plugin !
Thank you
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I had moved a lot of my photos in my gallery which my blog has about 100 links to, therefore I probably have about 100 broken links. However there seems to be a limit to how many you can see on the broken link page. After you have fixed those it doesn’t show the other broken links.
So right now it says I have 26 broken links but my broken links page is blank. I did fixed 20 of them yesterday (it said there was 46 broken links then). I tried clearing cache and logging out but the page is still blank. So how do I fix the other 26 broken links?
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There is no hard-wired limit to how many links the page will display.
Do you mean that it says somewhere that you have 26 broken links, but doesn’t display them on the “Broken Links” page (even after you refresh it)? I can’t think of any way that could happen.
A few things that might provide some clues :
* If you delete a post, all the broken links from that post will be gone, too (as you’d expect).
* When you edit a post all of it’s links (even those that you didn’t change) are removed from the “Broken Link” list and re-checked as soon as possible. This may take a while if there are a lot of links to check.
* Theoretically, in very rare circumstances, it is possible for the broken link table become desynchronized from the “posts” table. In this case, deactivate the plugin, activate it again and click “Recheck All Links” in the “Options -> Link Checker” page. This is pretty much the same thing as reinstalling the plugin, and should fix any discrepancies.
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Hi
I am getting an internal error 500 since upgrading to the new version of broken links. It shows all over the palce in admin panel. I had no problems with plugin until recently it worked like a dream – see error below:
[www.lets-makemoney.co.uk] [Sun Apr 13 18:19:04 2008] [error] [client 86.146.73.230] Premature end of script headers: wsblc_ajax.php, referer: http://www.lets-makemoney.co.uk/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=broken-link-checker/broken-link-checker.php&updated=true
I have had vaiorus problems wit the plugin dashboad too like plugins not auto updating on request and activating a plugin and going back to find it deactivated? I am using wp 2.5.
Some strange behaviuor which from the sounds of this board otehrs have experienced too? Any ideas? thanks muchly
I think I made no changes to the wsblc_ajax.php file in the new version, so it shouldn’t be suddenly crashing now. The error message also doesn’t explain much. If it wasn’t linked to the update I’d suspect server configuration or some kind of incompatibility…
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Great plugin. One problem – when I activate it, the drag & drop feature of some of my other plugins (pageMash, FAQ-tastic) stop working. Any idea why?
I guess there’s some kind of JavaScript conflict (Prototype vs JQuery). I’ll see if I can find it.
I move my data to new host and lot of images links missing, thank to Broken Link Checker that solve my problem, thanks author for your great job.
Great plugin. Found a bunch of false positives, all of which are links to wikipedia, but a couple other links that were actually broken. Well worth the trade off of occasionally getting a false positive.
175 and counting (but I have > 12,000 posts going back 4-1/2 years).
I’m certain I’m just missing it, but I can’t find where I “can set a different time period.” Not that I want to, I just wondered.
Also I don’t see the strike out, which is cool, documented. Am I just missing that too?
Good work. Thanks.
All of the options are found under Options -> Link Checker (or Settings -> Link checker if you have WP 2.5).
The “time period” option is on that same page and is called “Check Every Post Every [X] hours”. To get the strikethrough effect you need to enable the “Broken Link CSS” option, too (I think it should be on by default) and, if you have any caching plugins, make sure the cache is refreshed.
That should do it
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I get Error: Couldn’t update the post (DB error)
on almost every second thing I want to “unlink”.
besides, great plugin!
jez, I don’t see anything in the code that could cause this. In fact, you should never see that error message, except when the post containing the link no longer exists at the moment you click “Unlink”.
I’ll make the error reporting a bit more verbose in the next version, but that’s all I can do for now.
I do now get “Error: Couldn’t update the post” (with the brand new version)
If you really have the new version there should be a more detailed error message in parentheses after the basic message. Or just empty parentheses if the error was that there is no error
Eh, I don’t know.
Hi, Great plugin. But it seems not to be working with wikipedia links.
The following link is detected broken
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Richardson
Hi
I spoke to my host and figured why i was getting error500 with this plugi. they say they do not support AJAX at moment ???? Thing is the plugin did use to work, can i revert back to an old version. Is AJAX for recent versions? I am puzzelled. All i know is it used to work and the host are saying that they have never allowed AJAX so they dont know why it did? Can you advise pelase ?
Thanks
@Abi : The plugin has always used AJAX, since the very first version. I also find it highly unlikely that your host “doesn’t support AJAX”. After all, AJAX isn’t something that you need to enable or install server-side. Anyway, you could try to install an older version of the plugin and see if that works. You can find the previous versions here.
@Jandry : I’ll check the link on my blog. We’ll see how this goes.
I can confirm the wiki issue.
Right this is strange, i went all the way back to original version and uploaded it and it worked fine. No error 500 so i thought i would test for you all way through to see what version broke. I got all the way to the newest version which is now appearring to work fine so far??? In doing this i completely deleted the borken links directory before uploading the new version? Has this had anything to do with it now working?
To be honest, I don’t know. Maybe some of the plugin files were corrupted and reinstalling fixed it. Or maybe it’s the full moon that makes it work
@Jez, Jandry : The Wiki link works on my blog. Maybe Wikipedia is blocking automated access from your site (some sites tend to do that).
Hey White Shadow, first of all thanks for the plug in! The only problem is I have 160 broken links (I changed my domain name…heh) and so it becomes a hassle having to click ‘Edit Post’ for each broken link and search for the link within the post. I’m sure the majority of the people if not everyone using your plugin have around the same amount of broken links if not more, after all if it weren’t that many they wouldn’t have a use for this plugin in the first place.
For this reason I’m wondering how feasible it would be to implement a feature with AJAX where, within the broken link list, one can click the broken link URL or something and it becomes a text box, and then once someone clicks outside of the box or a button, it changes the link that way. It would be tremendously helpful. I would do it myself but I’ve no AJAX experience let alone Javascript experience (I just occasionally hack away with my knowledge of other languages). However if you do (And I really hope you do) choose to try to implement this, I would be glad to test this it for you if you need testers. Just wondering if you’ve ever thought about that, I’m positive everyone using this plug in would benefit from this.
My AJAX experience is a bit limited, but the idea seems doable and useful. I’ll add it to my “idea file” (aptly named arrgh.txt), though I make no promises as to when it’ll be implemented.
You see, if I immediately went after every suggestion I get for my programs, scripts and plugins, I would never get anything new done (well, I do usually fix reported bugs ASAP). So it might take a while for me to get around to it. I’m sure you understand
Yeah I do, maybe in that time I’d have learned AJAX and done it myself
But I’m glad you think it’s a good idea anyways and have added it to your todo list, though I’m curious as to how you couldn’t have thought of it before 
Really though, it’s obvious that it would make your plugin truly complete. Thanks for the consideration!
Complete, you say? Ah no, not even close. To be “complete” it would need to do at least the following :
* Also check for missing CSS files.
* And missing JavaScript.
* Check blogroll links.
* Check links in comments.
* Actually, check all links.
* Have a link checking function that doesn’t trigger any bot detectors.
* Gracefully handle “soft” 404 – when a site doesn’t send the expected 404 Not Found HTTP response, but displays a search page or something like that instead.
* Work without CURL (for compatibility).
* And so on (ad infinitum?).
There are always more ideas than there is time (or enthusiasm, or skill)
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* Also check for missing CSS files.
* And missing JavaScript.”
I understand your enthusiasm but this doesn’t necessarily have to be in a broken LINK checker, as broken link checker implies hyperlinks, nevertheless it would be a great feature.
Really though, not trying to nag you or anything, but wouldn’t this be a simple thing to do? Just take a look at the code in 2.5 that handles the following: when you go to write a post, it automatically generates a post slug under the post title. You can click on this slug and it’ll turn into a box with which you can change the post slug. Just use this same code to do the box thing. Then in the manner that you found the link within the post (Regex? Or did you hook onto a WP function? I’ll look at the plugin code later), change the link within the post.
I might try and hack something together later, I’ll give you whatever I could come up with, if anything.
It’s regexps + some hooks to know when a post if modified. You’d probably need to access the DB directly to modify a post (there’s probably an internal function for that, but I’ve found the documentation pretty spares in this regard).
I have a general idea of how to do the box thing at the moment… And sure, feel free to send me any code you might come up with.
Thank you very much!
This is a great plugin and made possible to for me to check and fix more than 3000 pages with 9000 links.
Is there a possibility to start it as cron job?
Not in the current version, but if you know PHP, it should be pretty easy to modify wsblc_ajax.php to work with cron. You’d need to slightly modify it so that wsblc_ajax.php?action=run_check doesn’t require the user to be logged in.
I’m not going to add official cron support to the plugin because many users don’t have the option to use cron.
Thank you a lot! I will do it with wsblc_ajax.php. Have a nice weekend!
Hello,
First off thank you very much for writng this plugin, great idea! The plugin was working great. But now the pages are not redirecting. In Explorer the pages gets hung up indefinitely, in Firefox it gives this error.
The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.
Any ideas of what could have happen? Are there plugins not compactable with Link Cloaker?
Thank you VERY MUCH for your time.
Bert
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At what interval does it check ? I have it set to 5 seconds for how long it checks, but my blog slows way down for a page request when it is running. If I could set this plugin to run for 5 seconds once every 60 seconds that would be great. This page slowdown is only there when the plugin is active and I’m in the admin panel. I think.
I broke my site during the wp2.5.1 upgrade, reloaded and now the database links have shuffled. So I probably have many broken links or static links that go to the wrong post. I had deleted old posts here and there, and when I reuploaded the database backup, mysql redid the post numbers filling in the blank spots.
Thanks,
D.J.
The option that you can set is how often the plugin is invoked (how often it runs). So if you have it at 5 seconds, it will
1) start up every five seconds (launched by JavaScript from the admin panel)
2) run for five seconds (approximate)
3) repeat from 1. while there are links to check
The intention is to use all the alloted time, so in an ideal case the plugin will run continuously – until there are no more links to check.
If it slows down you dashboard too much, try setting it to very long intervals instead.
thanks, I’ll try that.
White Shadow, you already have everything you need to implement what I mentioned (The click on the link and it shows an input box for faster link fixing). You already have the Regular Expressions in the wsblc_ajax.php file, just make a callback like unlink_link_callback and use a different $matches variable (Maybe $matches[0] I think is the href, not positive), the SQL queries already seem to be fine. The only major change will be adding the input box and all of that, and you can see an example of that in the wp-admin\js\slug.js file, the first function, edit_permalink. This function is the one that shows the input box and all of that.
I’m not trying to say it’s absolutely easy and bashing you for not doing it or anything, I would do it if I had a better understanding of this, just trying to help you out with some clarifications. If you ever want to give it a try, I’ll be glad to test it out for you. Like I said earlier, I’m /positive/ that every one of your users will benefit from this. It’d definitely be faster than having to click edit post for each post and look through the long post to find the link. Not trying to nag or anything though I know it’ll probably seem this way, just trying to show that I really care about this feature enough to investigate.
Ahem. It definitely isn’t easy. I tried, and got weird and unusual MySQL errors that I couldn’t trace to any particular source. Still, I’ve uploaded an experimental implementation to wordpress.org (you should get an “upgrade available” notice in your “Plugins” tab).
Hmm…don’t know what errors you’re talking about, where do you get them and when? I’ve tried the new plugin and it works perfectly, really, I’ve tried it multiple times.
One weird thing is that when I click view post on some of them, it uses my old domain name, only on posts that were created when I had that domain name, but I’m not sure if it’s your plugin’s own doing.
Well, you never know when a bug might crop up
The plugin gets the URL for the “View” link from the WordPress database (using the “guid” filed). Some of your older posts probably have outdated database info. I think.
Yeah I figured that out by viewing your plugin’s source, I simply ran a REPLACE query on the guid table so that’s fixed now. The only problem is that some of the guid’s are of when I used different permalinks (for example /p?=432) and as far as I can tell there’s no way of fixing that (I already tried update permalinks). Oh well, but hey at least your plugin is working perfectly fine. If I ever notice anything then I’ll hit you up.
You should announce this new feature man, I’m positive you’ll get a lot of attention for it and many people will love it. It would’ve been neater if you could do it like the slug editing is: The URL is just text and when one clicks on it it becomes the textbox and when one clicks outside of it or on the save link/button it saves it (If not the former then at least the latter). This would be a lot more intuitive and make for a smoother process. But hey at least it’s working now, perfectly fine too! This suggestion is just as a touch up.
I’ll let you know if anything happens but so far the plugin is working great. If you need anything let me know!
I suspect nearly 30% of my posts are about new plugins/features. So I’d rather skip posting about small updates
Hi,
Thanks for your amazing plugin!
I have a request for an enhancement.
I went through the source code and noticed that the “View” links are generated according to the the GUIDs. This may cause problems on non-English blogs, such as my blog in Chinese. I think using permalinks is a better approach. Hope this helps!
Thanks again.
Regards
Leo
Ahha, and how do I get the permalinks? (It’s probably not extremely hard, but I didn’t figure it out when writing that code)
You can probably use get_permalink, giving it the post’s ID as the parameter. This function is provided by WordPress core.
Anyway I’ve not tried that yet. Good luck with that! We can find a way out together if you are faced with any coding problem.
Interesting, that seems to work. I’ll have a new version up soon, thanks
Yeah I was about to tell you to do what Leo said, it’s definitely better and more logical.
hey white shadow, as mentioned in my pioneer (around 10 to 20) comment earlier in the development of your genius plugin – I do still get the unlink error.
only occurs with images (wikipedia and my own), do you have any idea how to fix that?
cheers,
jez
I didn’t figure it out at first, but now I know it doesn’t work because I haven’t added any specific “image-unlinking” code. So the “Unlink” button only works for links.
Maybe one day
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This is a very cool plug-in but I’m having some trouble with it. It’s constantly reporting many valid URLs as if they were invalid, aside from catching the occasional invalid one. I’ve experimented with the settings to no avail. I’m running 2.5… Any suggestions? Thanks
It’s possible that those links that are incorrectly reported as broken point to websites that employ some kind of anti-bot protection, which might block the link checker. This has already happened before.
Another possibility is that the “broken” links load very slowly, so the connection times out and the plugin assumes the links don’t work.
Yeah… I’m seeing it happening now on multiple blogs, each of which aren’t having load time issues and are also running plug-ins like Bad Behavior, AntiLeech and/or others (many of the URLs reported as invalid are internal)… I’ll play with different configurations to try to pin down where the incompatibility lies. thx
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Nice plugin! Thanks a lot! I hope that in future version could check broken links in comments too.
I’m testing comments to see if the DNS issue is on my end, or somewhere else.
Hi,
How can i use link checker for rapidshare or mu links?
Is it work for those?
@Piklog – I suppose it should work for those as well, but I haven’t tested it.
I’m new wp user, can you test it for me?
I think RS, MU links are different from direct link checking.
It’s different.
thanks
@Piklog – Ah okay, you’re just being lazy here, how hard would it be to add a RS link to a post and see if the link checker catches it?
Anyway, I tested it, and it doesn’t work for them. Apparently RS won’t report the standard 404 HTTP code when a file is missing. Shame on them.
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@Anna – Thanks. I fixed a few things (that shouldn’t have been translater) and will upload a new version soon.
By the way, I understand Russian just fine, though I’m not russian myself.
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After activating I get this:
Aborting: WordPress API Malfunction
For some reason the function get_currentuserinfo() did not behave as expected. Your user_level seems to be null. This can be resolved by navigationg to the Users section of the WordPress administrative interface. In this section check the user that you use for administrative purposes. Then under the drop down labled “change role to…” select administrator. Now click the change button. Should you still recieve this error please report this bug to the plug-in author. In your report please specify your WordPress version, PHP version, Apache (or whatever HTTP server you are using) verion, and the version of the plug-in you are using.
WordPress version: 2.5.1
PHP version: 4.4.7
Plug-in version: 2.1.2
@tino – I don’t have the slightest idea why that happens. Also, I think you’ve got something wrong here, as none of my plugins are currently on ver. 2.1.2
I had similar problems as Tino, but mine actually have to do with your plug-in. Despite the fact that I can’t find a post on your site referencing the new version 0.4, I received an update notice on my WP Plugins page. I applied the automatic upgrade and it instantly started kicking out SQL errors about my All-in-one-SEO plugin, which I’ve been using for a long time in conjunction with Broken Link Checker. These errors started the moment I upgraded your plugin, so it appears it conflicts with All-in-one-SEO. I wish it weren’t the case, but as soon as I deleted your plugin off of my server (because I couldn’t access my admin to deactivate first), the SQL errors disappeared. Bummer, ’cause I like your plugin a lot…
@Cody – It’s all probably caused by the internatialization code which was contributed by someone else (see a few comments below). I don’t know anything about debugging this aspect of WP plugins, so I’m tempted to simply “downgrade” the public version to the code that was in 0.3.9…
@White Shadow – Err, I put an internationalisation in, but i18n-ing is just a special markup of text strings and one extra function to tell wordpress where the translation file is. I use All-In-One SEO too and I had no problems with SQL… WTF?
@Anna – Yes, but it still caused problems for Cody and I, too, have no idea why. I’m quite sure there were no other changes in the plugin aside from i18n-related stuff.
@White Shadow – Maybe Cody’s update went wrong – connection errors, access rights or smth like that…
Maybe, but it doesn’t seem very likely. If the download was corrupted he wouldn’t have been able to extract the ZIP archive (at least not with WP’s automatic upgrade). The plugin worked before, so access rights were okay; there’s most likely no reason why the should have changed with the update.
does it checks rapidshare links if they are alive or files have been deleted?
@koullis – nope, as I mentioned before, it doesn’t work with RS. It would always treat those links as working.
@White Shadow –
thnx for your reply
do you know other plugin which checks RS links?
@koullis – Nope, haven’t heard of any.
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I have a website that contains about 3500 posts all of which contain a link to a news article. I used to check for broken links manually every month – in May, for example, I would go through all the posts for May for each year. Lately, however, I have been unable to keep up with this. Will this plugin work efficiently with this many posts?
Thank you.
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@Kim Woodbridge – It will work, but I can’t say how well it will work. It might take a long time to check all the posts.
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@White Shadow – thanks! I will try and see what happens … after the first pass wouldn’t it be quicker because there won’t be so many broken links or will it always be slow because there are just so many links to check? I’m also looking into using a standalone program such as Xenu to deal with this my broken links.
@Kim Woodbridge – It should be a bit quicker after the first pass, but with that amount of posts it will always take time to check them all.
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Well, I installed it and have it running now in a separate browser window. It’s slowish but is running without any problems at all. It’s gotten about halfway through the 3500 posts in 1.5 hours and has found 82 broken links so far. I immediately changed the checking schedule to weekly and may even change it to monthly. So, even if this does take 3 hours it is still so much faster than I can do it manually. So, thanks for a great plugin and we now know it can handle an unusually high number of posts
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@Kim Woodbridge – Welcome
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I got this on my dashboard after I installed it: Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/igneous/public_html/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/wsblc_ajax.php on line 292
@bob cobb – your server doesn’t have CURL installed, and this plugin will not work. There is no workaround except for installing CURL.
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Hello, can you create a plugin that report the videos removed from youtube?
That would be impressive!
Thank you.!
@Jvista – You mean embedded videos, right? That’d depend on how they’re inserted in the post – just the HMTL or via some plugin.
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Hello, Yeah, as the plugin “Broken Links”, but than report videos of youtube deleted or removed, inserted for Embed direct in wordpress, as:
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So bloggers we can always know when a video has been removed, and can us update it.
maybe rename to “Yotube Broken Links” or “Youtube Broken Embed”,
Well, Thanks! for “Broken Links”, is a exelent plugin!
Good Luck!.
Sorry for my english, I don´t speak english. =/
Hi. Thanks for your great plugin! It’s making trouble with WP 2.6, though: If I click “unlink” it tells me that it cannot edit the post (in a popup).
@Eric – I’ve upgraded to WP 2.6 and seems to be working for me still. Maybe you tried to “unlink” an image? That would produce the popup you mention.
@Jvista – maybe someday
Works fine with WP 2.6!
On one of my projects, images and links are added in custom fields. Coould you please consider as an option a check in custom fields? Thanks
@Razvan Antonescu – I’ll add that to my idea list. Though I can’t promise you’ll see it implemented anytime soon.
Oh well, I can understand that that is not a very common use and priority must be given to regular users. So if it’s on your list is more then enough for me
I had huge problems with this plugin eating up lots of resources on the server, leading to 500-er “internal server” errors after I upgraded to WP 2.6. Therefore I had to disabled the plugin for now. this is using the latest plugin version.
Excellent plugin.
Two suggestions:
- exclude ‘revisions’ and ‘autosave’.
- include an option for ‘orphaned pages’ (I have so many pages and can’t really tell which ones are actually being linked to…)
@Karel – okay, it makes sense to exclude revisions & autosave. I’ll add this right now.
Also, Eric, this might be the cause for the unexpected server load you experienced (maybe
), so the next version might work better.
Nope, same problem (error 500) also with version 0.4.3.
I’m running WordPress 2.6 and just installed Broken Link Checker 0.4.3. I thought this was working beautifully on two different sites but I just noticed a Fatal Error message at the bottom of the Write Post page on one of the sites (not the other one, which is a different ISP):
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/wsblc_ajax.php on line 294
Can you issue a modification that doesn’t use Curl?
@Cynthia – that would be a pretty complex task. Not likely in the foreseeable future.
Looks like I found a bug. The broken link checker 0.4.3 records a URL which returns a 401 as a broken link. These are NOT broken links. They’re sites that require a login. Example is http://www.totalfark.com/
@Michael Hampton – Hmm, good point. I’ll update the plugin.
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Oops, I think I found another one. If there are two or more links to the same URL in the same page, editing, discarding or unlinking affects all of them. This isn’t necessarily desirable. In my case I wanted to edit one and unlink the other, but both of them got unlinked and I had to put one back in.
And if you hit Discard, then while all of them get discarded, only one of them is removed from the listing via AJAX.
@Michael Hampton – I think it makes sense to change/remove all broken links, so I won’t change that. I’ll look into fixing the Discard/AJAX issue though.
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i have the problem that my wordpress blog is now running on new webspace and of course your plugin found morgen than 500 broken links.
so it would be great to change all broken links at the same time.
http://www.xyz.de/wordpress to http://www.123.de/wordpress
so maybe you can include this possibility to your plugin!
would be great!
change all xyz to 123 !
@Rob Vegas – That’s a good idea, but I think there are already plugins that can do this. I’m pretty certain I’ve seen some “global search & replace” plugins before, Google may turn some up.
Hey, I’ve got some oddball stuff going on here with version 0.3.5. Specifically it seems to run for a while, and then gets stuck at, for instance, “3 posts and 9278 links in the work queue.” It’s been sitting here for four days, despite having the setting to recheck everything every 72 hours. Any idea how I can figure out what’s going on?
Er, excuse me, I seem to have version 0.4.4. not 0.3.5.
@Michael Hampton – I’ve thought about your problem for a while and haven’t thought up anything useful. I don’t know why it’s stalling. I’ll let you know if I get any ideas.
I think this is an excellent plugin, thanks so much for your work on it.
Our blog has many levels of users. We’d like to allow editors to use the Broken Link Checker, but they have “insufficient permissions.” Is there a way to extend permissions beyond just administrators? Thank you.
@Kate – It’s not easily extendable – you’d need to edit the source code. If you’re up for that, what you need to do is replace two references to ‘manage_options’ (around line 340) with ‘edit_others_posts’. This should give editor-level users access to the plugin.
Hello! I think that this plugin is really useful… However, I noticed that with wordpress 2.6 can give some problems. Watch this post in my blog:aggiornamento-a-wordpress-26
I think this can help to solve the problem.
Thank you and see you soon,
Denis
@Denis – Riiight. I can’t really read that (as I don’t know the language), but if you mean the “Internal Server Error” thing it’s probably caused by some tricky server configuration conflict. For example, it could be some security-related Apache module that causes this, or a .htaccess thing.
@White Shadow – @White Shadow – Sure, it’s italian
However if I deactive the plugin, all things works right again… See you
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BLOATWARE ALERT… caused my blog to take FOREVER to load… probably because I have LOTS of content… but still! This is hardly “running invisibly in the background”!!!
@Bleh – Depends on your browser… I’ve had no problems with it
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This is a great plugin! Except that it’s reporting links to nearly all Wikipedia pages as broken, while they not. Such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E3%81%AE%E9%9B%AB
Is there something funny about these Wikipedia pages? Or is it just that the Wikipedia web sites can’t be reached from my host?
@hillman – Wikipedia links work okay (i.e. not detected as “broken”) on my blogs, but some other users seem to have problems with them. Maybe it’s really a problem with your server, or maybe Wiki is blocking certain ranges of IP addresses.
@White Shadow – I see. Perhaps I’ll just discard those errors. Thanks for the reply!
Does Broken Link Checker keep a log of the checking result? Like, whether it reports the link as broken coz it gets a 404 or 503 when checking?
Also, one of the link in my blog is linking to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora’s_box
but BLC is reporting the link as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora
Does it stumble on single quote in the URL?
Xenu Link Sleuth produces some sort of error message on Wikipedia links (”forbidden”), I am guessing the same thing that stops XLS also blocks the BLC4WP.
@hillman – There is no log.
The plugin can probably get confused by links that contain a quote. I’ll need a more advanced link-finding regexp to solve that, but it’s doable.
The official regex for URIs is
^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?Confused yet?
Nah, it makes perfect sense
Actually I need a regexp for HTML links. I think I’ll need to update the existing one to use a backreference to ensure it only accepts matching types of quotes for the opening and closing quote of the href parameter (I think that sentence got a bit tangled).
Anyway, I’m putting that off, because currently I have a more pressing issue – finding out how somebody managed to hack this site today. I’ve got it back working, but now I need to read the logs and whatnot…
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OK, more on my broken link checker stopping in the queue. It appears to get hung up when checking a link to http://www.phl.org/ . The site never loads up, the curl call never seems to actually time out as it should, and so the AJAX call comes back with a 504 (Gateway Timeout) error. When I manually removed this link from the blc_linkdata table, it went happily on checking the rest of the queue.
@Michael Hampton – Hmm, I guess I’ll have to think of something to detect cases like that.
Well, curl should be timing out, but it isn’t. Looks like the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT isn’t being honored. I don’t know if that’s a bug in curl or in PHP, but it’s certainly a bug.
Anyway, I worked around it by just having the link checker pull links from the work queue randomly, i.e.:
/* check the queue and process any links unchecked */$sql="SELECT * FROM $linkdata_name WHERE ".
" ((last_check<'$check_treshold') OR ".
" (broken=1 AND check_count<5 AND last_check<'$recheck_treshold')) ".
" ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100";
Now it’s at least checking most of them.
@Michael Hampton – I seem to recall that “ORDER BY RAND()” is considered a bad thing performance-wise.
Sure, it’s a performance problem if you’re randomizing a few million records. Randomizing 100 is trivial.
P.S. Please fix your comment form. I’m going nuts having to re-type my information in all over again every time.
@Michael Hampton – I’ll use a different workaround. The new version should be up soon.
I think one of my antispam plugins is causing the comment problem. I’ll investigate, but it might take a while.
really works thanks
Hello, nice to meet you, Janis.
This is nice plugin.
I fixed a lot of broken links on my blog.
But, first time, I got a error below at “Status : ” area on admin page:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class wpdb in /var/www/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 53
So, I remove the line
require_once(”../../../wp-includes/wp-db.php”);
from wsblc_ajax.php , thinking it was negative solution.
Today, I found an article, “Tackle Plugin Compatibility Issues While Using Popular Libraries” : http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/27/tackle-plugin-compatibility-issues-while-using-popular-libraries/
Yes, That might be the answer!!
I changed like below :
/*
The AJAX-y part of the link checker.
*/
require_once(”../../../wp-config.php”);
if(!class_exists(’wpdb’)) {
require_once(”../../../wp-includes/wp-db.php”);
}
…
I GOT IT!!!
It potentially has same problem in require_once(”../../../wp-config.php”), maybe.
I wish my work will help you, thank you.
@Dai – While I haven’t encountered this problem before your suggested modification certainly can’t hurt. I’ll add it to the plugin
However, I think using “isset($wpdb)” instead of “class_exists(’wpdb’)” will be a better choice because the comments in wp-db.php indicate that it is possible to replace this class by something else by setting the global variable $wpdb.
Including wp-config.php should be okay, that just loads the WordPress core.
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Thank you for update.
> using “isset($wpdb)” instead of “class_exists(’wpdb’)” will be a better choice
I guess you’re right, actually, it works fine.
‘wp-db.php’ is not one of the “Popular Libraries” like PclZip, but a part of
WordPress system.
The article is may not suitable for this situation.
Anyway, the problem has gone.
I won’t have to edit when this plugin updated.
If you need, I’ll try to find out which plugin cause the conflict I wrote.
@Dai – Nah, it’s fine, though feel free to investigate if that helps your peace of mind.
This is a great plugin – found loads of dead links on one of my blogs. But on another, I can’t get it to run.
Both blogs are 2.6.1, and both are hosted on the same server, so I think there must be some interference with another plugin, one that I’m not using with the first, successful installation. Specifically, what happens is that it doesn’t run automatically, and when I click ‘re-check all pages’ in an attempt to trigger it, I get my ‘no results of a search’ page, suggesting other links, up for a few seconds. Then the default Broken Link Checker start page comes up again. Very odd!
I’ve tried deactivating all the obvious plugins – do you have any suggestions?
@Lucy – Hmm, here are some ideas :
* When you click the “re-check all” button note the URL of the “search page” (before it redirects). That might give some clues.
* Check your .htaccess. Maybe there are some security-related rules that are blocking parts of the plugin.
* Try disabling/enabling any cache-related plugins. My intuition tells me those could have something to do with it (somehow).
* Check file permissions/file owner of broken-link-checker.php and wsblc_ajax.php (especially the second one). The “right” permissions depend on your server configuration, but in general these files should both have the same permissions as the .php files of other, working WP plugins on your server.
Hi man.
I just tested a hack:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/190128?replies=4#post-840910
And I have this problems, can you kindly search the wp-config file in a relative way?:
Warning: require_once(../../../wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wordpress/plugins/broken-link-checker/wsblc_ajax.php on line 5
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../../../wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php’) in /home/wordpress/plugins/broken-link-checker/wsblc_ajax.php on line 5
@Nokao – I see why the plugin wouldn’t work in that configuration, but I’m not quite sure what you mean by “in a relative way”. It’s already using a relative path to include wp-config.php, do you mean I should use an absolute path, or what?
Hi White Shadow (and compliments for your storms pictures, we have the same photographic taste for natural strength).
I said “relative” because someway, your plugin recognizes that he is in a “symbolic link jailed folder”.
The point is that it’s the only plugin that it’s not working and I think that it’s not the only that uses the wp-config someway.
I’m not a WordPress hacker, so maybe you can look how do plugins like nextgen gallery look into the wp-config file…
I also have another question I posted months ago:
to remove the check of links that have different protocols from http, like for example skype://
Your plugin hates my msn and skype “addme” buttons
Thanks again for your work!
@Nokao – It doesn’t “recognize” it, it just tries to include the file as if the plugin was in the usual location, and, obviously, fails. I don’t think there’s anything I can do to the plugin to fix this except overhauling the entire AJAX part of it and getting rid of wsblc_ajax.php altogether. That would take a lot of time & work, so it probably won’t happen in the foreseeable future.
For the time being, you should just edit the plugin and replace “../../../wp-config.php” with a full path to the wp-config.php file. Hopefully I’ll be able to remove this need for hacks in the next version – but, as I said, it probably won’t be soon.
Ah, and thanks for the compliments
@White Shadow –
Ok… I’ll surrender to the fact that I can’t use your plugin in that server
(i’ll continue to use that for my personal blog)
Infact, I can’t change the ../../../ folder with something, because, you know, I did that “hack” to have the SAME plugins folder with more than 25 wordpress websites.
So I can’t know wich website is calling the function, and I can’t address a wp-config.php in an absolute way.
I really hope that your plugin is the only that have that problem… I’m curious about that.
Actually, all seems to be working fine.
@Nokao – Oops, I forgot about that. You’re right, my suggestion wouldn’t work.
Other plugins work because either they don’t use AJAX at all or use it in a different way (possible, but as I mentioned it would take a while to convert this plugin to use the other method).
@White Shadow –
Uh
Even nextgen-gallery have SOME problems, in the admin menu’, the link is wrong and it’s a mix of server path and symlink.
I don’t understand honestly why this is happening… and why you need to look for wp-config.php
@Nokao – Do you really want to know all the details?…
Okay, for my plugin it’s like that : the link checks run in the background using AJAX in the admin menu. This is necessary because I can’t expect every user to set up a cronjob for the broken link script.
In WordPress plugins an AJAX-y component can be built in several ways. This plugin uses a different PHP file for the AJAX tasks. The file, wsblc_ajax.php, needs to be able to access the WordPress database to be able to read posts and check links in them, etc. That’s why it needs to load the WP core engine and blog configuration. This is done by including wp-config.php. Also, the plugin needs to load the database layer, so it includes wpdb.php.
That’s it
That seems to happen on CGI and FastCGI installations of PHP, which is the vast majority. Apparently the symlink is getting dereferenced when the file is loaded. So the script has no idea where it was called from, but instead sees where it actually is on the filesystem. Therefore it can’t figure out where anything else is because it isn’t in the directory tree you expected. My test Apache/mod_php install doesn’t seem to have this problem, though my FastCGI install does. As far as I know there’s no good way to “fix” this.
@Michael Hampton –
Maybe we can try with an hard-link ?
Can you contact me in private so we don’t go off-topic here on White Shadow’s website?
info at
nokao dot
com
If someone reads my previous questions about having a multi-blog engine installed to have only one WP and of course only one plugins/themes folder… and wants to know if there is a solution…
Yes, there is, and it’s called:
http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/virtual-multiblog/
I’m astonished… now I have more than 20 WP websites with a single WP installation, no more multi-update-caring and balls-breaking.
Bye
Thanks a lot for the great add-on, should save me having to use a manual solution.
I just installed the plug in and works really great but since then the wp admin becomes really slow, do you know or anybody knows or have the same issue?
thx!
@Dan – Some users have had similar issues, but the only thing I can suggest is trying a different browser. I think the problem is site/browser specific.
I think the broken link checker hmight have a problem with del.icio.us (wonder if their nofollow is part of it?) BLC is showing false positives for just about ALL my del.icio.us tag links. For about a month earlier this year I was doing a LOT of bookmarking on delicious and was having del.icio.us do a daily post to my blog since the bookmarks were of mostly useful, relevant content – in a nutshell, I have LOT of del.icio.us bookmark links on my site and BLC is showing 3000+ bad links I have nary the time to go thru by hand so I ‘d be tickled pink if there arose a automagical remedy to this problem. – thx
@R. Richard Hobbs – Del.icio.us links seem to work fine on my test blog, so I’m guessing the problem is site-specific. I can only suggest you add del.icio.us and delicious.com to the exclusion list in Settings -> Link Checker.
>>> I can only suggest you add del.icio.us and delicious.com to the exclusion list in Settings -> Link Checker.
<<< thanks for that – I really only turned BLC back on yesterday after I had deactivated a while back. I have been keeping it updated but I hadnt really noticed that feature – thx again
Feature request: make links to check open in new tab or window
Feature request: make your comment form remember me
thx
@R. Richard Hobbs – Could you clarify what you mean by “links to check”?
As for the comment form, I’m aware of the problem – it’s caused by the same plugin that handles comment paging. I’ve let the author know about this bug, but it’s not fixed yet. And I think disabling the plugin would be a bad idea – for example, this page would take forever to load with >250 comments on one page.
>>> Could you clarify what you mean by “links to check”?
<<< after the BLC has done its work you are presented with a list of bad links it has found (it’s”edit” link is next to each of these) I’ll call this the “work page”… Normally I will confirm for myself they are bad if just click on each link you are moved off the work page and have to go back after following the link unless it is opened in a new tab or window. Its a relatively small chore but little things matter if there are a lot of links to check. Automatically opening the link in a new tab (or giving users the option on the config page would please me immensely.
Another suggestion might be to be able to select all the text automatically (like the “embed” box on Youtube) in the edit form window. There appear to be lots of free javascripts that do this. Admittedly I havent gotten in there and tried it so I cant say exactly how easy or hard it might be to implement this, but for me it would be a helpful feature.
Thanks again for your hard work and kind ear.
@R. Richard Hobbs – Ah, I usually just middle-click those links which opens the link in a background tab in Opera. Anyway, I’ll make them open in a new window by default (the window/tab distinction is browser-specific, can’t control it from JS AFAIK).
I’ll see what I can do about auto-selecting the text.
We’ve been able to fix many bad links in the resources lists on our site. But there are four links that it keeps marking as bad links that are really good links. Why are these URLs being marked as bad? (I tried putting them in normally but your comment form thinks it is spam so I’ll try the following to see if that gets accepted.)
www dot accessible dot ie
www dot accessible dot ie/?p=50
www dot natural-access dot com
www dot eschoolnews dot com
Thanks.
@SleeplessinDC – Those links work fine in my tests. Anyway, the next version of the plugin will have more detailed reporting which should help you figure out why the links get marked as broken.
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Hi there,
I thought I’d give BLC a try in WP 2.6(.1). No (PHP/WP) errors but it marks perfectly fine links as ‘broken’ while they’re obviously not! At first I thought it only did that with ’shorthand’ links like domain dot com instead of www dot domain dot com but it has now also marked other ‘good’ links as ‘broken’…
This somewhat negates the use of BLC…
However: Great plugin and I’m looking forward to seeing any issues resolved or more documentation on ‘why BLC marks those links as broken’ becomes available.
Thanx!!!
@CID – If you have the latest version (0.4.8) you should be able to get some clues as to why those links were marked as broken by clicking the new “Details” button(s) in Manage -> Broken Links. However, meaningful info will only be available about “broken” links that were checked with this newer version.
Hey WhiteShadow,
Thanks for your quick response!
Yes, I do have version 0.4.8 and it lists ‘details’. However, every link detail (except the URL’s and time ofcourse) reads:
——————————————————————————
Last checked : 2008-09-09 12:06:09
Final URL : http://www.cid-iv.com
HTTP code : 0
Log :
=== First try : No response. ===
Trying a second time with different settings…
=== Second try : No response. ===
Link is broken.
——————————————————————————
The sites load fine but BLC keeps getting ‘no response’…
@CID – It’s probably timing out. The timeout is hardcoded to be about 30 seconds (when using CURL). Maybe I should add an option to configure it…
Yes, well, that would, in any case, be a welcome addition. Always nice to be able to set the threshold for this kind of functionality. But I don’t think that that’s the case here because the site (mentioned in the example) loads in under 2 seconds… (Checked with Fasterfox.)
@CID – Maybe the site has some kind of security software in place to prevent suspicious bots from accessing it. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Ok, yes, that would cause such behaviour, I will check!
But how about the internal links it marks as ‘broken’?
And to me it seams that it has problems handling shorthand URL’s. Or can’t that be the case?
@CID – “shorthand” URLs shouldn’t be a problem if the URL is otherwise valid and working. In particular, external links should always include the protocol part (usually http://).
Are the local links using relative URLs? The plugin should handle it, but the algorithm is not perfect.
~ bug ~
When I activate the plug-in my website bleeds through the admin. So I can actually see my website below with some themes the admin, and integrated with the admin in other themes.
~ end bug ~
has this been fixed yet?
When I search for “broken link checker” in the wordpress plugins search I do not see your plugin any more. What happened?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=broken+link+checker
@Bart Gibby – The WordPress.org plugin search is notoriously bad. The plugin page is still up.
As for the “bug”, check that wsblc_ajax.php is present in the plugin’s folder (i.e. in wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/) and that it doesn’t have any weird permissions set. Actually, just see if you can access yourblog.com/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/wsblc_ajax.php. You might have a .htaccess rule or some security module blocking it. Or possibly your “wp-content” folder isn’t where the plugin expects it to be.
Broken Link Checker is not compatible with Ozh Better Feed
@cartmanffc – Okay, thanks for the info.
If i’am klick on ‘unlink’ in the list of Broken Links, The complete text of the Artikel is deleted!
I’am working with the newest Version of WordPress 2.6.2!
@Stefan – Err, sorry? That has never happened in my tests :/ If you have backups (hopefully you do) could you mail me the post (including HTML etc, not just the text) that got deleted? My email is whiteshadow (et) w-shadow (dott) com
I would run some tests with that posts and try to find the cause of the problem.
Love the plugin — it works so much better than any other link checker I’ve tried! Sadly, I had to turn it off after upgrading WP because of server load problems (I’ll keep an eye out for updates that address this issue!).
@alice – Thanks
I haven’t been able to pinpoint the source of the performance issues yet as only certain people/blogs seem to have them. The plugin has always been running well on my sites.
White Shadow,
I’ve been thinking about the server load problem and how only a few people seem to have run into the issue. In trying to come up with reasons I might have had the problem where others didn’t, I came up with two possibilities:
1) my blog goes back to July, 2004, so there are a lot of entries with an abundance of links, which could have kept the link checker pretty busy; and
2) and this one is probably the more important one: I tend to just leave my dashboard open in a browser tab all the time. Since your plugin is designed to work certain intervals whenever the dashboard is open, that means that I’m letting it work around the clock. Maybe there needs to be a setting to slow down the link checker if the dashboard is left open for long periods of time?
Anyway, maybe this info might be of some use to you.
Have a great weekend,
Alice
@alice – So is the slowdown you experience really occuring on the server, or just in the browser? If you try to access the site from a different computer when you have the dashboard open on another, does it still load more slowly than usual on the other computer? That would help narrow down the range of possibilities.
I don’t know if this would help, but here’s an idea – go to the plugin’s settings and increase the “Check every post” value to ~160 hours. Also increase “work session length” to 60-120 seconds. It might reduce the load, or it could make it worse, or do nothing, but it would be an interesting data point.
what difference of this and google webmaster tools ?!
thanks for share this plugin.
@mobile software – Google Webmaster Tools lets you know about internal broken links, for example, when a link somewhere leads to a missing post on the your site.
The plugin, on the other hand, shows broken links from your posts to any site, either your own or external. For example, if your blog is blog.com and you link to example.com/article.html in a post, and that page (article.html) goes missing one day, the plugin will tell you that the link to example.com/article.html is “broken”.
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Hi,
Thanks for the plugin – very neatly done. I modified your source so that it includes a javascript mechanism to resort the broken links by post date (or by the original last check date). I’ve tested in firefox so far – going on to test in IE. Haven’t tested under heavy load yet (massive number of broken links).
Wanted to know if you were interested in the modified source for inclusion back to the trunk when I’m done?
~Aron Beal
@Aron Beal – Sure, sounds like a useful feature. You can post a link here or email it to me at whiteshadow@[this domain] when it’s done.
On my dashboard I get a notification of a lot of broken links but when I check them there’s actually none. This started to happen when I deleted a page where all those links (of images) belonged.
@Nelson – This might be caused by a database bug in an older version. Click “Re-check All” on the link checker settings page to reset the plugin’s tables. It will probably take a while to recheck everyghting, but it should fix the problem.
@White Shadow – That’s odd. I believe I had already done that before. Anyway, I’m glad it really did the fix this time. Thanks!
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After installing broken link checker, it seems that only account authors with a status of “admin” can access the link checker. Is there a way to let other user status’ to access the link checker as well?
@Drew McManus – It is done. Editors (in particular, users with the “edit_others_posts” capability) can now access the page as well. The update should show up in 24 hours.
@White Shadow – Wow, that was fast, many thanks!
I find that this plugin often displays broken links for images in post and links to photos in my NextGen gallery. Testing the links shows that they are not broken. When I tell the plugin the recheck for broken links it then comes up with none. A little strange…..
@AJ – Probably just temporary glitches with the links, that does happen once in a while. There isn’t anything substantial I can do about it.
This is an excellent plugin, I’ve included it in my must-have maintenance Wordpress plugins list at:
http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/how-to-set-up-a-blog/must-have-wordpress-blog-maintenance-plugins/
Thank you for the wonderful plugin!
I tried it out for a few days and it was working well (and even helped me find a couple of links that had recently changed. However, it is now reporting a status of “Error: You can’t do that. Access denied.” while logged in as an Administrator. Any suggestions?
@Lance – That’s strange. I recently updated the plugin and changed what capabilities are needed to see/edit broken links : now it’s “edit_others_posts”. Administrators should have this capability by default and I haven’t encountered any problems with my two blogs (WP 2.6.3 and 2.7-almost-beta).
Are you using the latest version of WP? Also, can you still access the Manage -> Broken Links page?
I am running the latest plugin version, am using WP 2.6.3 and can access Manage -> Broken Links. It did stop working a couple of days ago, perhaps this is when I upgraded the plugin. I will email you with a few more details. Thank you!
You were right; after logging out and back in, everything is now working. Thank you so much for your assistance!
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I have been using your broken link checker plugin on a few WP sites and it seems to be randomly putting a strikethrough line through some of my affiliate links. At least that is what the developer of the paid for link cloaker says. So I’m going to leave your plugin active until the next time an affiliate link gets the strikethrough and then I will deactivate it to confirm if it is in fact the culprit. Has anyone else had this same problem?
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@Steve – Yes, the plugin will show a “strikethrough” line on links it considers broken. You can turn off this feature by going to Settings -> Link Checker and unchecking the “Apply class=”broken_link” to broken links” box.
Great plugin!
Congratulation an thaks from Brazil!
@White Shadow –
Okay great! That is good to know and thanks for taking the time to reply!
Hi,
Been using your plugin for a little while now and have found it very handy (especially when I moved my blog about six months ago).
I have a question:
I would like to display the number of broken links on a stats page I have put together and basically want to show my readers the number of broken links on my blog.
Any ideas?
R
@Robert@PNG – Hmm, it can be done, but probably not easily. There isn’t any built-in API useful for this purpose.
In a nutshell, you can get the number of broken links by running this MySQL query : “SELECT count(*) FROM [linkdata_name] WHERE broken=1″, where “[linkdata_name]” is the name of the plugin’s link metadata table (usually it is “wp_blc_linkdata”).
I don’t know if this helps any
That did the trick mate!
Thanks,
R
@AJ –
I’m having the same problem. I have WordPress 2.6
So you have Wp plugin too!!!
Man you’re so great
Thnx for this useful plugin ..
regards
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G’day from Australia
Have you been getting any problems with this plugin on GoDaddy Hosting? I have a couple of blogs (2.65 and 2.7) and they are both failing on GoDaddy.
My other blogs on other hosting servers are fine.
Any ideas.
Dave
@David from the Jewelry Appraisal Center – What kind of problem are you having exactly?
@White Shadow – G’day again and many thanks for your swift reply.
When I first installed it there was a FATAL ERROR – probably due to activating 2 plugins at the same time. Once I did them one at a time it seemed to just hang but eventually (after kicking me out of the Admin area and asking me to download the edit file?) I managed to get back in.
Everything was extremely slow – but with some patience (I went for coffee) found it was simply checking all my posts and links. There were 79 broken links – Wow and I thought I had everything under control
Now all is well and so I put it down to PHP4 on GoDaddy PLUS two plugins clashing.
Many thanks anyway – great plugin.
Dave.
@Dave at the Jewelry Appraisal Center – Hmm, yes, it can slow down the site for some users, but I haven’t been able to figure out why. Glad to hear it’s working now.
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Is the plugin compatible with wordpress 2.7 ?
Thank you for your great work.
I haven’t done any in-depth testing, but it appears to be working okay on my two WP 2.7 sites. I think it should be fine.
i have just downloaded it mate.. hope it works well for my website… thanks a lot for sharing..
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Hellon
like coment#302 I have this error on admin panel:
“Error: You can’t do that. Access denied.”
Hmm, try to log out and log in again. If that doesn’t help, try resetting your account’s role to “Administrator”.
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Hey, nice plugin.
For some reason, whenever I update the options (pressing the button), I am redirected to my login page, and cannot proceed from there. Entering the password does not help.
If nobody else experienced it, it is probably a collision between your plugin and some other plugin i have – maybe MiniMeta widget, which incorporates some wordpress redirect function.
Anyways, thought Id let you know.
Indeed, it’s probably some kind of plugin conflict. As far as I know, nobody has reported anything similar yet.
There is a conflict with Broken Link Checker and a $97.00 paid-for plugin called ‘MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate WP Plugin.’ MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate is a plugin that cloaks affiliate links. Anyway, what happens is that Broken Link Checker will randomly put a strikethrough line through a couple of my affiliate links. I say “random” because I haven’t figured out any pattern as to why it will do that to one affiliate link and not other affiliate links. Your plugin is a good one but unfortuneately had to deactivate it because of that problem. I have no interest with the company that makes this plugin but you can see more about it here: http://www.mbpninjaaffiliate.com/ It would be nice to know if you plan on fixing your plugin so I can start using it again.
Thanks
Steve
I don’t have any immediate idea about how to fix the conflict itself, but you can remove the strikethrough by unchecking “Apply class=’broken_link’ to broken links” in the plugin’s settings (Setting -> Link Checker).
Also, you might be able to stop the link checker from checking cloaked links by experimenting wih the exclusion list on the same page. Find a piece of text that appears in all cloaked links and add it to the list. Though I’m not entirely sure if that would work because I haven’t used the Ninja Affiliate plugin.
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Hello!
I observed strange behavior with wordpress 2.7:
when I post youtube video, link checker reports them as dead. It’s not a problem – I can discard them, but… they are back sooner or later.
any update?
Is there anything interesting in the “Details” of the reported links? Maybe YouTube have started using some spambot protection that interferes with the plugin.
I have a couple of links showing as broken due to the way in which they are formed. Is it possible to add an options for exceptions whereby the user lists “links” which they don’t want checked so as to avoid those links appearing as broken links?
@ Gary O : Err, there’s already the “Exclusion list” for that. See Settings -> Link Checker
DOH!!!!
That’ll teach me to look more carefully before making a comment!
I’m so embarrassed.
I am using it, but since I activated WP-SuperCache it throws an Internal Server Error (every second). It looks like the settings for this plugin (.htaccess changed) are interferring the work of your plugin. Could this be and how could I solve this?
Cheers
Sebari
@ sebari : That’s interesting. I’m using WP-SuperCache 0.8.8 myself and I haven’t encountered any problems. In fact, I can’t immediately think of any possible way these plugins could conflict. You might have better luck reporting this issue to the author of WP-SuperCache.
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I always get a broken link message for the following link:
http://www.panasonic.de/html/de_DE/2036940/index.html
but everytime I’m testing the link there are no problems.
Andreas
@ Andreas : Click the “Details” link in the report, there might be some clues there. Other than that, all I can suggest is adding the link to the exclusion list.
@ White Shadow : “Details” says:
1. Log : === First try : No response. ===
Trying a second time with different settings…
=== Second try : No response. ===
Link is broken.
Hmm, this would usually be a temporary error. The plugin tried to access the link and got no response from the target server – not even an error message. This might happen (very occasionally) if the server was overloaded, but if the problem reoccurs then the target server might be actually blocking the plugin, or similar.
Then the server must block the plugin as it happens with every link to this server and always.
I’ll put the server on the exclusion list.
Thanks, Andreas
can you make plugin to check rapidshare, depositfiles … if links are alive or dead
@ Matrix : Probably not. That would needlessly complicate the plugin.
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Very nice plugin, I found a bunch of broken links on my blog! o.O;;;
Great plugin!Im allready in love with it!Im testing if it also works on videolinks like megavideo etc.Hope it works cause then i will be using it a lot.So far so good,keep up the good work!
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How can i get the links with redirects to be displayed as broken links.
is it just a case of changing
$result['okay'] = (($code>=200) && ($code=200) && ($code<300)) || ($code == 401);
Thanks
Craig
Code looks like its working all 302 / 301 redirects are now displayed as broken links, so i can clean them up now
Thanks for the great plugin
Craig
That feature has in fact been suggested before, but I’ve put it off due to lazyness
Glad you got it working for you.
Loads of my posts with images are showing up as broken links, even though they work fine when you look at the post. Any ideas?
Hmm. Are the images hosted on your site or somewhere else? What do the “Details” reports say?
There are some missing, which is odd, but most of them are 404 errors, but when I view the post they are there. I do have image hotlinking protection turned on in my .htaccess file, maybe thats the problem? They are on the same domain, so I don’t think that should be a problem, but maybe it is?
Yes, hotlinking protection could cause this problem. I don’t know your particular setup, but if the protection works by detecting visits without a referer header, it would block the plugin.
Yes its using the referer, any way around it?
I’ll upload a minor update that should fix it.
Now this is why I love the Wordpress community! You can’t beat support like this. Thank you very much!
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What does this mean lol???? I just want to detect broken youtube videos. Hard to test, so not sure if this plugin will work for it. . . .
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Hello, Yeah, as the plugin “Broken Links”, but than report videos of youtube deleted or removed, inserted for Embed direct in wordpress, as:
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So bloggers we can always know when a video has been removed, and can us update it.
maybe rename to “Yotube Broken Links” or “Youtube Broken Embed”,
Well, Thanks! for “Broken Links”, is a exelent plugin!
Good Luck!.
Sorry for my english, I don´t speak english. =/
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@dave : You can’t do that with this plugin. First, an embedded video is not a link and requires custom parsing to recognize it. Second, when you try to access/view a removed YouTube video, YT doesn’t send the standard “404 Not Found” error reply, but sends a redirect instead. In the current implementation the plugin treats redirects as working links.
@white shadow: thanks for the quick reply. The comment I quoted does seem to imply that this plugin CAN do that, so thanks for the clarification. Hmm, I guess the only way I’ll be able to add this is to have a link on each page called ‘report broken video’ or something similar.
Anyone got any good ideas for how to add this in, without writing some kind of custom email script? I just want to allow a user to click a button, and somehow I get notified that the video my post links to has been taken down.
Cheers!
You could use one of the contact form plugins and include a link to the contact page below each video. Personally, I use Contact Form 7, but there are also other alternatives available.
im thinking more along the lines of an auto responder to me which includes post title. ive found a couple of options but can’t get either working for 2.7.1
This one shows the link, but notification doesn’t appear in back-end. I also get errors trying to configure:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-report-posts/
This one looks awesome, but I can’t get the link to display on the page (display changing the incorrect syntax for < ?php . . .)
http://www.jailbait.gr/downloads/report-post.rar
Success! I followed the instructions for getting report post working here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/206058
works now! woot!
thanks shadow for your help
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Help! I just installed Broken Link Checker. I am running WordPress 2.7.1. Whenever I go to my wp-admin page and click on plugins, the page just hangs. I have tried it in two different browsers — FireFox and Safari.
I was able to deactivate the plugin. Is it not compatible with 2.7.1?
It should be compatible; at least it works on my 2.7.1 blogs. Some users have reported strange slowdowns this plugin may cause with various versions of WP, but I’ve never been able to pinpoint the exact cause. Maybe you have a lot of posts and it’s trying to check them all right away?
Yes, I have about 320 posts. I wish there were a way for me to use this. Checking all of these by hand is a hassle. (I recently converted from TypePad.)
in case you don’t know, your link-checker did not find the bad links in my header (only the pages).
cheers!
@johny : Yep, I know. It only checks the post/page content at this time.
Does the broken link checker check the links in the blogroll(s) (or is it planned for a future development) – ordinary users who are not admins don’t see these type of links to be anything different – they just bitch (sometimes) “It does not work” or go away from your site never to return !!
This is in the long-term To-Do list. It will probably get implemented eventually, but unfortunately I can’t give you a timescale. After all, I’m not paid to update my plugins so the updates happen whenever
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There is something wrong when I deleted a post, this message occurs:
“WordPress database error:[You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near”
When I turn off this plugin, it works!
Wow, looks like this bug has been present since the first release and nobody spotted it till now
I’ll upload a fixed version; you should see the upgrade notice in 12 hours or so.
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Thanks for the update, my site is now showing no broken links at all, which is what I hoped for! Its great to see an author respond so swiftly to bug reports.
Great Job for the update! Swiftly done!
Now I found this error when trying to edit a post:
Warning: join() [function.join]: Bad arguments. in …/plugins/broken-link-checker/broken-link-checker.php on line 323
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I’m not quite sure why that happens, but 0.4.13 might fix it. You can download the update from the link in the post, or wait for the update notification.
I have just noticed this error message on my dashboard
“You don’t have permission to access /wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/wsblc_ajax.php on this server.”
I don’t think I’ve changed anything regarding BLC – tried to upgrade to the latest version but I still get the same message. I’m not sure if this means that BLC does not work – there are no reports of broken links .
Judging by the error message, I don’t think this is a BLC problem. Something – like a security-oriented plugin or something in .htaccess – might be blocking the access to that file.
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Nice plugin!!!
Any chance that you will add localization to it? That would be nice!
Is there a changelog published somewhere on the net, where users can review changes before upgrading to a new version?
@ BLC : Yes, see the revision log.
@ Georg : Perhaps someday
Great job! I’m amazed at your working phase
I just found this recently, all the link directing toward en.wikipedia.org is deemed as broken link (it has a strikethrough line in it). Please see it here:
http://netsains.com/2009/03/kalah-teknologi-iphone-tak-laku-di-jepang/
I remember ‘discard’ a link to wikipedia once, but after that I’ve done nothing regardless.
Wikipedia probably thinks the plugin is a suspicious bot and blocks it. There’s not much I can do about it – a big site like Wikipedia will probably have very sophisticated bot traps.
You can add Wikipedia to the exclusion list in Settings -> Link Checker if you don’t want to see those false positives anymore.
The plugin breaks the layout of the admin page when used with PHP 5. I’ve uploaded a screenshot here if you’d like to see.
I use PHP 5.2.6 and I don’t see any problems, Richard. Are you sure that it is not another plugin that causes it?
Same here, I use PHP 5 both on my dev machine and on this site and the plugin works fine. Are there any PHP error messages in the HTML?
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I’ve deactivated all other plugins and still get the same problem, only when running PHP 5 but not PHP 4. Sorry, how would I check for PHP error messages?
View source and search for any mentions of “error” or “warning”. My guess is that there’s an error message generated somewhere that breaks the HTML and makes the page render incorrectly.
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any hints on how to show redirect-pages 302/303 as broken links?
$result['okay'] = (($code>=200) && ($code=200) && ($code<300)) || ($code == 401); is not working.
Off the top of my head :
This will treat all 3XX codes as indicating broken links. The RFC says those are all some form of redirect, so the code should do what you want.
Thanks a bunch!Works sweeeet!Thank you so much,great plugin,love your site!
Btw,do you know if this plugin consumes a lot of bandwidth when checking links?I need to check about 4500 links every 24 hours.Thanks in advance.
It tries to use only HEAD requests (when possible); that is, it asks the target server whether the page exists and doesn’t try to actually download it. This uses very little bandwidth. However, it will double-check each broken link and use more bandwidth for them.
Okay thanks,plugin works great
There seems to be some interaction between BLC and Twitter Tools. With BLC activated, there suddenly appears a stack of ‘function()’ lines in the hour and minute drop down in Twitter Tools.
Will also post this on Twitter Tools site.
Apart from that, the plugin worked like a dream.
I’ll look into it when I have time.
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Broken Link Checker worked fine for a few month. But now, I have some errors. When I run “Re-check all pages”, all the website is in error (error 500) and many good links which point to my website are marked as broken :
Log : === First try : 500 ===
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:07:21 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.X (OVH)
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.9
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Last-Modified: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:07:21 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Trying a second time with different settings…
=== Second try : 500 ===
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:07:21 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.X (OVH)
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.9
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Last-Modified: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:07:21 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Link is broken.
Why the whole website is out when the plugin is checking all links ?
WP 2.7.1 (Akismet 2.2.3, akWpLightbox 1.0.0, All in One SEO Pack 1.4.7.4, Broken Link Checker 0.4.14, cforms 9.1, Exec-PHP 4.9, FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1, FeedWordPress 2008.1214, Google Analytics for WordPress 2.9, Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2, MobilePress 1.0.3, Remove Generator Meta Tag 1.0, WordPress.com Stats 1.3.7, Wordpress.com Stats Helper 0.5.5.3, Wordpress Newsletter subscription Opt-in for SendBlaster 1.1.6, WordPress Related Posts 1.0).
Ah, the mysterious “500 Internal Server Error”. That’s one of the most abused HTTP codes that can mean any number of things. Have you recently installed any security-related stuff on your server (e.g. new Apache modules)? The plugins look fine, but it could be caused by something else that works on webserver level.
Quite difficult to know what has been updated on the web server… It’s a shared hosting ! I will open a case next week to try to have more information or log file.
I will try if this issue is related to the last version of the plugin (try version 0.4.13).
Thanks for your reply !
I have the same issue with version 0.4.13. I have open an incident to have more informations from my hosting provider. It seems my database is limited to up to 3 concurrent access. Any idea ?
Thanks.
That sounds very restrictive, though I have to admit I don’t know much about this aspect of databases. No ideas, sorry.
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I tried the plugin on a free server for testing,worked great with the 3xx redirects,but now i switched it to my paid server and the plugin doesnt show the redirects anymore.I tried:uninstalling and reinstalling,upgrading,deactivated all other plugins to check for conflict,went thrue the css numerous times,php5 on both servers,but nothing works…Can you come up with anything that could help?Cause i`m going insane
Thanx
Does the new server have cURL? If not, the plugin would use another algorithm to check links that handles redirects slightly differently.
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Yes it has curl,i checked with the helpdesk and they gave me this info:
cURL support enabled
cURL Information libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.1
Is that any help?
Well, is the modified code still there?
Are typical broken links (error 404) detected?
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Yes the modified code is still there
I imported a old blog and it detected 117 dead links (404) but not the 3xx range
I just cant figure out what the problem is…
Hmm, nothing else comes to mind at this time… :/
The strange thing is that i have another link-check plugin (but it only checks links when a post is actualy visited) that does detect the 3xx redirects.I guess its gonna be a long night trying to figure it out…
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The plugin reports that http://www.eeicom.com:80/training/dispclas.cfm?classID=70700 is a broken link but it isn’t. Here are the details: HTTP Code : 60
1. Log : (Using Snoopy)
connection failed (60)
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:52:13 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Set-Cookie: CFID=1193978;expires=Wed, 30-Mar-2039 22:52:13 GMT;path=/
Set-Cookie: CFTOKEN=73796203;expires=Wed, 30-Mar-2039 22:52:13 GMT;path=/
location: /training/dispclas.cfm?classID=70700
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Link is broken.
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Looks like an internal Snoopy problem (Snoopy is the library that the plugin uses when cURL is unavailable). All I can suggest at the moment is to get your host to install cURL.
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A quick comment on the plugin. Is there any way to send broken link findings to my email? It’d be a great help as I’m not often able to check my Wordpress all that often, but I do check my email. Thanks!
Unfortunately not. While it would be possible to make a little script that checks the plugin’s DB table and reports broken links by email, the plugin wouldn’t actually run if no-one visits the admin dashboard (this might be changed in a future update).
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The last trackback is from me. It describes (in german) how to display a tooltip on broken links in posts. Unfortunately a code change is necessary for that, but an easy one, maybe you could integrate that in a further release.
In broken-link-checker.php in line 124, just add something like this at the end of the line: “This link is broken”.
Then define the broken link class so, that span elements are only display when they are hovered over with the mouse. You get a tooltip effect where the user can see a small info what is wrong with the link.
Marco
Ok, the span elements were filtered out for the info text, just add span-Elements between the quotes and you are good to go.
I’ve had a similar idea for a while; I’ll add it soon.
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Hey, this is a great Tool,
but when this is activate, the Plugin Site is only white.
Can you Help?
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I love this plugin and I’ve been using it for a while. However, I’ve been getting some false positives, in particular from IMDb. I review movies for fun and always link to IMDb, both movie titles and actors. I have over 17 false positives right now. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
I’ll be releasing a new version of the plugin relatively soon (hopefully next week, with a public beta coming ~tomorrow). I suggest waiting for that and, if you still have the same problem with the new version, get back to me and I’ll see what I can do.
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Hi,
i talked to you about the 302-redirection problem a while back,how it worked on my previous site but not on the new site,remember?
Well,my new site opens in about a week or two,and its packed with links i need to check daily.When its finished i have over 4000 links.
I tried numerous other link-ckeck apps but non with satisfactory results.So im turning to you for help again!But this time i want to ask you if you could help me for a fee,or rather cash-money(although i`m not rich).Thanks in advance.
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Somewhat hazily. You wanted redirect detection, yes? Try the new beta. It has that feature implemented in a more reliable manner than in any of the previously suggested hacks.
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Well thank you very much,works like a charm!Is there any way to clear the detected redirection urls on the redirection page?Thanks in advance.
Not as such, but if you edit the link in question so that it points to the actual target URL (and not the redirect) then it won’t show up on that page anymore.
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Unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t seem to work for me. I have WP 2.7.1, the plugin installed and was activated without problems. However, it fails to find any missing images and broken links in my posts. Just as a test, I added a broken link to one of my posts and also deleted an image from the server. I re-scanned the site using the plugin and it still reported no problems. I know I have quite a few broken links and missing images in my blog. You plugin failed to detect any of them. Am I doing something wrong?
Does it detect any links at all? It should show a status message on the configuration page that says how many URLs/links were detected. You can also see all detected links in Tools -> Broken Links -> All.
If any links are detected, check the list for the one’s that are supposed to be broken and see what their detailed log says. You can see the log by clicking either the “link text” cell of the corresponding row or the “Details” action link.
Hint : the newest links will show up at the end of the “All” list.
could you add support for rapidshare and Megaupload links to your plugin? :/ thanks
That would be tricky. They probably use non-standard error pages. So probably not in the near future.
It does detect Megaupload links,i use a lot of links from Megaupload and they get detected as a 302 redirection
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Having recently changed the permalink structure on my blog, I wanted to use Broken Link Checker as a tool to help me change internal links, but none of these seem to show up even though they are returning error 404s.
Does the plugin detect those links at all? Go to to Tools -> Broken Links and click on “All” to see the complete list of detected links. You can then click the “Details” link below each item in the list to see when/if that URL was checked and what the result was.
Also, make sure your site isn’t mentioned in the exclusion list in Settings -> Link Checker.
I’ve gone through the 64 pages of links it has detected and none that link to blog posts have been detected, although links to images and other media are detected.
Take this post:
http://www.stephennewton.com/nave-marketing-strategies2-easy4men/
The links with anchor text:
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This is consistent across the whole blog.
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I see your problem – those links don’t have quotes around the URL. This is invalid markup and the plugin can’t parse it.
I’m afraid fixing those links is up to you. I might add robust HTML parsing in a later version of the plugin, but that’s a long way off.
Fortunately, I’ll probably be able to solve the problem with a .htacess redirect. I’ve been hand coding since 1994 and haven’t bothered keeping up with the more pedantic stuff.
It’s a shame linkchecker isn’t robust. Do you insist on double quotes or do you recognise single quotes too? It may be worth mentioning this issue in the readme.
In the meantime, many thanks for all your help. It’s appreciated.
It works with either kind of quotes.
As for why it isn’t robust – failure-tolerant and flexible HTML parsers are typically huge, complex beasts. I’m not quite convinced it’s worthwhile to add one of those to the plugin just so it can handle the odd malformed link. However, PHP 5 includes a semi-decent DOM parser, so I will eventually modify the plugin to use that when it’s available.
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Hi, I love this plugin but I’m having some problems with it. When I activate this plugin, most of my dashboard will fail to load. It will show the modules that come before where this module shows up on my dashboard, but not the ones after. This happened when I upgraded to Wordpress version 2.8. If you need more details please email me and I’ll do my best to help you. Like I said, I love this plugin, and I’d like to see an update so that I can use it again. =)
Thanks for you time.
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Just like Katrina (comment #569) said, the plug-in seems to be broken in WordPress 2.8 making my admin side fails to load. I emailed my hosting because I thought there was a problem in the server before I realize this
Hopefully it will be fixed!
Unfortunately I will need more information to fix this. I’ve emailed Katryna about it, but so far I haven’t received a reply.
It doesn`t report redirects anymore since wordpress 2.8
Any suggestions?
Revision,
Its not 2.8,just tested on 2.7.1 and doesnt work either.So then the problem must be my recent change of webhosts.
Do i need to make some file or directory writable for the plugin to work?
@ Allstar :
I still haven’t gotten around to investigating this in-depth, but here’s what I can tell you now -
1) You don’t need to make any files/directories writable to use this plugin.
2) If it doesn’t report redirects then that’s probably because your (new) host doesn’t have CURL. In theory, the plugin should detect redirects even then, but I’ve barely tested that part of the code and it’s probably buggy.
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When have the Dashboard open in your browser, click View -> Source and check the HTML for PHP error messages (probably near the end of the source code).
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Hi,
I tried the latest version of this plugin and it didnt reported 302 redirection.You said that it was probably cause my server didnt have curl.I checked and my server has curl.I tried an older version of this plugin and it works with the 302 redirects.So good news but do you have any idea how this is posible cause your latest version of this plugin has a so much better dashboard interface and i would like to use the latest one
Which version was that? I’m asking so I can compare the relevant code and (hopefully) see why it doesn’t work in the newer version. Also, could you give me an example URL (or two) that isn’t reported correctly? It might help with the debugging.
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The version that is working is 0.4.13 running on wordpress 2.8, example url: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=UJHYX7FE
I also use your latest version of the plugin on another site running 2.7.1 and it works great,but the older version wont work on that site
hello thanks for this plugin has come along way since i first sen it one thing if you can tell me where in the code i can change the timeout value as some of the sites i use/link to can load slow at times therefor they be reported as broken links
thanks
@Allstar : Looks like this is a bug in the linked site and possibly cURL. The the example URL returns a misnamed field in the HTTP response header (”location” instead of “Location”) and apparently this causes some kind of glitch in your version of cURL.
Well at least that’s what I think. Here’s a test : put a link to http://w-shadow.com/redirect302.php in one of your posts (this is simply a one-line PHP script that does a well-formed 302 redirect to my homepage. You can use an old post and remove the link later). If my idea above was right, this link should be detected correctly by the plugin.
@ paul : The timeouts are set in the link-classes.php file.
If you have cURL, change the lines 159-160 :
If not, change line 222 :
I have a longstanding blog with many broken links.
Finding them is one thing … do you have a global search and replace utility that works on my WordPress SQL database to fix any that I condsider fixable ?
You can change a link via the plugin’s interface. On the broken link list, hover your mouse over the link’s URL and click the “Edit” thing that will show up. Then input the new URL and click “Save”. This will replace the old URL with the new one in all posts and pages where it’s used.
Also, check out the Search and Replace plugin.
Wow, many thanks.
That’s the power I am looking for … I shall be trying out this plug in and contributing if it works
Double wow – that global S&R will be very useful too … I have repeatedly mistyped names and terms over the years and that will ease my housekeeping.
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When I activate the plugin on a test blog with only a few articles (v0.5.3), it works like a charm. When I activate it on my main blog with over 300 articles and thousands of links, it takes a few minutes to get going and the site isn’t responsive during that time.
Any way to improve performance and making the install/upgrade play more nicely in the background?
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@ Jacob : Sorry, I can’t think of anything useful at the moment. Maybe your server is just slow? It might be possible to make introduce some kind of staggered update algorithm, but that wouldn’t make much sense for the initial install because most users probably want the plugin to be up and going as fast as possible.
Hi! The plugin is nice, but I decided to delete it from one of my blogs because the plugin does uses too many memory and the uninstall process simply brought me to a blank page, and nothing was deleted
At first look, it seems that you are using the right code, but who knows. I’m using WP 2.8.1.
Any fix necessary?
I’m not sure what I can do about the memory usage, but I’ll fix the uninstaller right away (found the bug).
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White Shadow, thank you for your time.
Can you think of reasons why I seem to be getting a lot of false broken links? I think this has been going on since upgrading WP to 2.8 (now at 2.8.2 and latest plugin). They show up as broken links, but when I expand them they show something similar to:
# Link last checked : July 20, 2009
# HTTP code : 0
# Response time : 0.000 seconds
# Final URL :
# Redirect count : 0
# Instance count : 1
What other info would you need? Thank you for your time.
Links that are currently being checked may be incorrectly reported as broken. However, those false positives should go away in a few minutes, tops.
Another possibility is that the plugin starts checking a link (the link record is “half-updated” immediately due to complicated reasons) and the link URL takes a long time to respond, causing the checking script to be terminated for exceeding the maximum allowed execution time. I’ve never seen this happen myself, but it’s theoretically possible on servers that have the max execution time set low and don’t allow scripts to change it.
Or it could just be a legitimate link timeout. Network glitches/server overloads do happen. In this case the false positives should go away in a few hours.
If you don’t think the above ideas explain the issue, post a few example URLs that are (consistently and incorrectly) detected as broken. I’ll see if I can find out why.
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Just like Dan I’m getting 12 false broken links on a regular basis. When I recheck all pages the list clears, but then later the same 12 show up again. Here are three.
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Works great for me. Sometimes it detects a false positive first time, but next time it corrects the problem which is good.
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Hello,
Thank you for this great plugin! I just installed it, ran it and am already loving it!
I have a feature request, though: add an option “Use archive.org’s version” (or whatever shorter form to say it). I think you’ll see the use of it: a frozen link is better than a dead link. When archive.org has several links, choose the latest version.
Two possible enhancements:
- when multiple links are available, choose the one closer *in the past* to the post’s timestamp (avoid links in the future of the post)
- automation: well, this is pretty much self-explanatory
All of this take its toll on the server and archive.org’s server (my blog is 3000 post and 9000 comments wide), so some sort of load balancing could be necessary.
Thanks again!
Oh, by the way, two more things:
- first, I noticed there ate 631 comments (with this one). It means you won’t read this. I have to find another way to send feature requests
- second, another feature request: when a link appears several times (complet link, that is, with identical up to the nternal anchor included), to have the possibility of changing it everywhere. In understand this goes beyon checking (it is not reading anymore — it is writing)
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@David : I read all comments; I get a notification email for each one
It just sometimes takes a while for me to respond.
Anyway, I’ve added your suggestion about archive.org to my To-Do list. You can expect it implemented sometime in August, I think. As for changing a link everywhere, the plugin already does that – if you edit a link via the plugin’s interface, all links that have the same URL will be changed in all of your posts and pages (and the blogroll).
@Larry : Sorry for the delay, I’ll get around to checking those links soon.
archive.org idea sounds awesome. Thanks
After a couple of weeks in use this plug works like a dream – EXCEPT – it has some unexpected “features”. It clearly doesn’t like links with spaces in them and marks them as broken even if they are not. And when you ask it to ignore them it does so for one checking cycle … but marks them as bad again next time round. (Same as Larry says above)
This either needs a fix or more configurability of rules ?
And I have to agree the “archive.org” idea sounds very interesting.
Allright, URLs with spaces should be handled properly in the latest version (0.5.5). Note that it may take up to 12 hours before you get the update notification on your dashboard.
Works great, thank you
@White Shadow: wow, that is a very good surprise! Honestly, if quarter a blog I post in had such a good support… well I’d be pleased
And the batch-rename thing too is a good surprise.
I seriously consider adding this plugin to my must-have list for every WordPress blog!
Why, thank you
Question: does the plugin automatically strikes-through dead links or is it a bug with the theme I am using now (I am using K2 and I think I noticed this annoyance before ever installing the link checker)?
That is a feature. You can turn it off in the plugin’s settings – either uncheck the “Apply class=”broken_link” to broken links” checkbox or edit the relevant CSS in the textbox below that.
Question again:
- how to “unexclude” accidentally excluded links?
- out of editing my SQL dump with regexp, what is the best way to massively rename links? For instance, I want to change http://david.latapie.name/tag/ to http://david.latapie.name/blog/?tag= (I moved from one blog system to WordPress and most of my links are now dead)
Oops, now without brackets:
h**p://david.latapie.name/tag/something to h**p://david.latapie.name/blog/?tag=something
By the way, a preview function would be great.
The excluded links/keywords are also listed on the settings page, in another textbox. Just delete the unnecessary ones.
As for your second question, check out the Search And Replace plugin.
You deserve some (more) publicity.
Thanks, White Shadow. I had to reopen the page on another tab, because it did not finished checking yet.
Just for fun:
Found 1614 broken links
7467 URLs in the work queue
Detected 11312 unique URLs in 13210 links.
And counting, I guess
If you ever need a something huge blog for bugtesting, a dump of mine will be available on request
Thanks WS. I’ll look out for the update, and drop in a paypal donation.
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Thanks for this very helpful plugin.
But there is one thing wrong when cheking pages: The plugin is unable to understand relativ links.
An example:
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The plugin was supposed to already understand relative URLs, but it appears I forgot to fully implement that feature. It should work better in the new version I’ve just uploaded to wordpress.org (0.5.6).
That is really a very useful tool, thanks.
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Saludos cordiales
I just wrote a review of your great plugin on my blog: http://www.word-ex-press.com/an-useful-plugin-broken-link-checker/.
Thanks for your job!
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Addition to your answer with id: 657
I updated to thew new version and most oft my “broken links” did disappear. I fixed the other ones manually.
But one thing which still does not work. If the relative link starts with “../” or “../../” etc. the link is reported to be broken.
Specific examples would be nice. It’s supposed to handle URLs like that, so I need to see a more specific situation where it fails to find the bug.
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Hi,
I was wondering if the plugin already had this capability or if it doesn’t it would be good to have it.
This plugin I think so far only checks official links that you can click on. But can it check just a simple url without being in a link format?
Like this: http://www.google.com
and not http://www.google.com
EDIT:
Hi,
I was wondering if the plugin already had this capability or if it doesn’t it would be good to have it.
This plugin I think so far only checks official links that you can click on. But can it check just a simple url without being in a link format?
Like this: http ://www. google.com (added spaces so it wouldn’t link) Basically urls that you have to copy and paste into your browser to get to it and now just one that you can click on.
and not http://www.google.com
Thanks.
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@Pascal : I shall add that to my To-Do list
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I noticed that the font styling was a little off in the dashboard widget. (Why I notice these things, I do not know.) If you change the div tag to p, it’ll match the other widgets, and you won’t need the line-height style. The script still loads correctly.
Alright, it shall be done. And thank you for the donation
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We are behind a huge firewall, and therefore we have to modify the code of Broken Link Checker, so that all links in our sites don’t become broken. But with each new release, we have to find out where to re-add the code
Here’s an example of the code we added from plugin version 0.4.14, Line 278:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, “http://our-firewall.domain.gov:1234″);
We’d certainly request a place to add the proxy in the admin interface. Please feel free to contact me directly with questions and I’ll relay them to our PHP expert.
Don’t post to websites in the morning before you’ve had your cup of tea!
Corrections to my previous post in brackets []:
“We are behind a huge firewall, and therefore we have had to modify the code of Broken Link Checker [with each upgrade], so that all links in our sites don’t [appear false postive] broken in BLC. But with each new release, we have to find out where to re-add the code.”
Here’s an example of the code we added from plugin version 0.4.14, Line 278:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, “http://our-firewall.domain.gov:1234″);
We’d certainly request a place to add the proxy in the admin interface. Please feel free to contact me directly with questions and I’ll relay them to our PHP expert.
I will donate to this plugin if you add a WP-blessed changelog to the Broken Links WP Plugins page
I shall add that to my To-Do list, too
But seriously, I’m currently working on updating another WP plugin, so these suggestions will have to wait. Though I will probably get around to implementing them within a week or two (at most).
@joebanks
Instead of making up new variables, you could just use the globally defined proxy settings in Wordpress.
WP_PROXY_HOST
WP_PROXY_PORT
@joshglemza
I am such a n00b. Thanks, Josh.
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I’m having this problem when using broken link checker and Simplepress Forum,
“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare json_encode() (previously declared in wordpress/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/library/JSON.php:810) in /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/utility-class.php on line 16″
It seems you must wrap the JSON calls with if(!function_exists()) calls. There should be no conflict.
best regards
It is wrapped with if(!function_exists()) calls, so I must say I’m quite confused by this error. See the relevant code fragment :
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Thks for your answer.
In that case, there is no clue, from where the error is coming from?
Hey Janis –
Don’t know what you do on this last iteration of the plugin but it seems to work a LOT better now. The broken links really are broken!
Thank you for your continued development!
@mgomes : I installed the latest version of the SimplePress forum to see what causes the problem, and I’m not getting the error you mentioned. Both plugins appear to co-exist peacefully.
Do you have the latest versions of both the broken link checker and the forum plugin?
@Dan : Ahha, thanks
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dude, this is an awesome plugin and pretty quick one if one know how to work with wordpress plugin. However, this plugin have quite a serious issue on the amount of resource it takes on the server which is not that good. Please look this up. Thanks
The error only happens when you post a topic to simplepress forum. that’s the only time.
I’m using SPF 4.1 beta.
@ mgomes : Try installing the development version. I added a little workaround that may help.
@ Clay : I’d be glad to reduce the resource usage, but I don’t see any easy ways to do that. If you have any practical ideas on how to improve the plugin’s performance, don’t hesitate to reveal them
It’s working, the 2 plugins are now working peacefully
Thanks for this and keep up the good work in this really usefull plugin.
Just installed the upgrade and if I try to run this along with WP Super Cache it makes my blog unusuable…can’t access home page or admin area. Have to disable BLC and WPSC by renaming folders in Cpanel (to disable both plugins) then I can enable one or the other, but not both. Enjoyed it while it lasted, but until this is fixed, I value WP Super Cache much more.
…this is bad, and I have no idea why it would happen. I’ll try to find out.
Meanwhile, you could use one of the older versions of the plugin. The DB format should be backwards-compatible for all 0.5.x releases.
Patti, you could also try this modified version. I doubt it will help much, but it’s worth a try.
Thanks White Shadow. I’ll go back to the older version for now. Loved the plugin and never had a problem with it (other than the occasional false report of a dead link) before the latest upgrade. I have another blog that does fine with the latest version (http://shop.bostonsandboxers.com/store) but I don’t run wp-super cache on that install.
Thanks again for your help, and courtesy. I hesitated even reporting the issue as my previous experience w/plugin authors was less than pleasant. It’s nice to be treated with common courtesy
Hi
I love your plugin. yes after i installed I found 18 broken link at essential page at my blog.so i can repair it.
thanks
I make simple tutorial rich with screenshoot at my plugin blog at http://www.pluginspecialist.com
thanks
Don’t be dumb with Broken Link Checker…
If your blog rich of links, this Broken Link checker plugin is a must for you to prevent called “dumb” by visitor and never come back coz found one of your link not work well.
By this plugin activated it will automatically test al…
Sorry to be dense … I loaded the link checker and have assumed all was well until I found a broken link in my site … went back and the BLC said nothing about it. Upon further inspection I read the script’s output more carefully in the admin site, realizing that it isn’t telling me I have zero broken links … it says I have zero links!
Specifically it says:
No broken links found.
No URLs in the work queue.
No links detected.
I searched the site for others who have experienced this phenomenon for some insight and direction, but couldn’t make any progress. Can you give me any advice on how to proceed in troubleshooting or checking the configuration more intensely?
Thanks in advance!
That is most certainly a bug. Try this version of the plugin and run a re-check from the options page (and please report back if it works).
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I tried installing the older version of the plugin and got the same result (where it ran w/o a problem before). In order to access my bog’s dashboaed or homeage I had to rename BOTH plugin folders (BLC and WP-supercache) in order to deactivate the plugins and regain access. I don’t get it, but I can’t afford to keep crashing my blog. Thanks for trying
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As promised, a donation has been sent. Thanks for the changelog! This is an essential plugin for regular website maintenance. Keep up the good work!
Thanks
i’ve got this plugin working splendidly on one blog I administer, but on another (running on a separate host) I get a 500 Internal Server Error when attempting to activate the plugin. It does appear to be active though, but it finds no links.
Under Tools-> Broken Links, I see the following error:
Table ‘***.**_blc_links’ doesn’t exist
I have tried using version 0.5.9 and 0.5.10 with the same result. I migrated this wordpress installation to MySQL 5 (from version 4) to see if that was the problem, and I still got the same error. When I look at my database I do not see any blc tables.
Any idea why they are not being created, or what would be causing this Internal Server Error? Any help would be appreciated. This is a great plugin (when i can get it working)! thanks!
I’m not sure, but I suspect this is somehow related to the fact that the database upgrade function that the plugin used is unable to handle explicitly specified character sets and collations.
Try the development version again, I’ve made some changes that might help.
Sidenote : There were only two significant DB-related changes in the latest versions. One, the plugin now uses case-sensitive collation (latin1_general_cs) for it’s URL column(s). Two, I switched from creating the tables directly to using the aforementioned upgrade function. I think one of these modification is be to blame.
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I have the Broken Link Checker version 0.5.9 installed and now left deactivated because it has been increasingly reporting links as being broken when they are not. I tried deleting all the data for the plugin and reinstalling it, but that didn’t help.
I have 5 other plugins and wonder if maybe the Broken Link Checker might be conflicting with 1 (or more?) of them. They are: Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, CR Flexible Comment Moderation, WordPress.com Stats, and Wordpress Popular Posts.
I also tried changing the amount of hours it rechecks the links to see if that made any difference. It made no difference.
When I first began using the Broken Link Checker many months ago, it only reported links that really were broken. Now it seems to be heading in the direction of labeling all my links as being broken (I have an enormous amount of links!).
Check the “Details” panel for the incorrectly reported links (either click the “Details” link that pops up when you hover your mouse cursor over the table row, or just click anywhere in the “Link Text” column). Is there anything unusual in the log? Maybe a pattern of some kind (e.g. all links showing “No response”)?
You might also try installing the dev. version on the off-chance that it might help.
As for your other plugins : I’ve successfully tested the link checker with Akismet, All in One SEO and WP.com Stats, and I’m pretty sure the other two should cause no conflicts either.
Oh, and have you recently moved to a new server/has the server configuration changed significantly?
Yes, alll the links reported as broken show “No response” in the “Details” link. Does this mean I should install the dev. version?
No, I haven’t moved to a new serve and the server configuration has not changed. Thank you for your quick response.
I’m curious to see how this problem will resolve.
I did delete version 0.5.9 and install 0.5.1
0.5.1 is doing the same thing. What’s odd is that when I recheck for broken links manually, it sets the results to zero. In less than a minute, it’s back to compiling a long list of broken links with every one having the detail showing no response.
Hmm, I still haven’t figured out why this happens. Does the log also say anything like “(Most likely the connection timed out or the domain doesn’t exist)” or “Using Snoopy”?
Try this – open /broken-link-checker/link-classes.php and change these lines (near line 160) :
to something like this :
These numbers specify how long the plugin is willing to wait for a response from a remote server. Setting them this high should help if the problem is caused by a network glitch.
If figures!… after having deleted 0.5.1 and leaving my blog without a Broken Link Checker Plugin all day; then reinstalling 0.5.9 to try out your suggestion, the problem no longer exists! It’s working fine now.
I will keep your suggestion handy in case if malfunctions again. I wonder if it’s possible the hosting company that my blog is on had some glitch going on and resolved it? If that’s the case, is it possible that it could have taken weeks for them to work out the bug?
Thank you for your quick and caring responses!
Well, I love problems that solve themselves
Still, could you perhaps install the 0.5.10 again and see if the bug reappears? I realize you don’t need to, but it might provide valuable information for me.
I installed 0.5.10 again and I thought the bug did not reappear because it wasn’t developing a ‘weird’ list again. Now I’m not sure, because it reported a link as broken for this reason: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Every time I manually checked that ‘broken’ link, it worked fine.
Then I put back 0.5.9 and that version is now doing the same thing. Before installing 0.5.10 today, it wasn’t giving that 503 message for that ‘broken’ link.
I’d suggest waiting a few hours (or until the link is checked again). It might actually be a temporary glitch on the server hosting the linked site (that happens from time to time), in which case the 503 message should go away after a while.
There are also some sites that always show an error page to the plugin but let normal visitors access them, but those are relatively few.
Thank you for all of your help and tips. I hope my feedback is helpful.
The Broken Link Checker seems to be fine now.
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Hi There!
I use this plugin and am very satisfied. I think my site is being hacked, and I think your plugin is helping me to find this. It’s currently indicating that I have over 150 links in the work queue, but I do not see any pending posts in my site. Where does the tool check through to find links in work queue?
Scarry to be hacked…
Sepi
The “work queue” here refers to the plugin’s own internal queue of links that need to be checked (or re-checked) at this time; it has nothing to do with pending posts. And it’s certainly not an indication that your site is being hacked
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I enjoy the links checker, however, I’ve noticed a systematic error that the plugin is making. I have links to the site http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com, and all the links are working (hand-checked). However, the plugin identifies them as broken and draws a line through them.
Here’s the actual post location: http://www.chileunderground.com/2008/08/14/august-f-bom-tigers-and-strawberries/
The broken-link details include notification of error 412, precondition not met. I’m now looking through all the other links the plugin found to be “broken” looking for more instances. Is there a workaround to keep these type of “broken links” from being mis-identified?
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At first glance the 412 response code seems like a fairly sure indication that the site in question is running some kind of anti-bot script that’s blocking the plugin. I’ll run some tests later to make sure, but it’s probably the most likely answer.
As far as I know, there isn’t much I can do to prevent the plugin from being detected as a web crawler/bot/an automated thingy – in a sense, it actually is those things.
Great Plugin – love it, I was shamed by the amount of broken links by blog had.
I just wanted to thank you for your quick response the other day. I asked about the work queue (mistakenly thought I was being hacked). Thank you for responding right away!
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