Comments on: Broken Link Checker Plugin 0.2 Update

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:23:01 +0000

To be honest, I have no idea. Something like this has never come up before. Regardless, you could just give it a go and see how it fares.

By: Werner Peters

Werner Peters — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:08:16 +0000

Hello,

some time ago i made my new website, which contents an ä in the domainname.

Please tell me, if the Broken-Link-Checker works korrekt in this case.

Thank you

Werner

By: ylyad

ylyad — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:31:11 +0000

I understood it the same way but I have some posts that just point to a specific article/news/post and removing that link makes my post completely meaningless. Marking it as “broken” would be an interesting workaround for the reader.

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:17:46 +0000

Okay, suggestion noted

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:51:52 +0000

Just in case it wasn’t clear
When i said “automatically” I meant some way to click a “delete link button” so the link (and not the text) is removed.
For example, the plugin says that, in a post, the word “Google” is pointing to “http://google.com”, which doesn’t exist anymore (haha!). So, clicking a “remove-link button”, the link to “http://google.com” is removed, but in the text, the word “Google” remains there, so the whole paragraph still makes sense.

Anyway, I also do like the “definitively discard” buton

By: ylyad

ylyad — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:06:27 +0000

Hi, and thanks for your plugin, it’s really helpful and helped me discovering that I had plenty of broken links! Not only dead websites (that I was aware of) but also plenty of sites that regularly change the way they manage their links (news at yahoo.com is one of the examples) and that’s a pity.
Please allow me one suggestion: some of my posts become completely pointless if I remove the link and I’d like to avoid removing it ro at least not waste time into it. However, they still show up as broken links and I cannot do anything against that. So, two options here:
- have the possibility to definitely discard them
- instead of Lucas’ proposal to automatically remove (I don’t like it either), make it possible to mark it as “broken link” in the post (from the admin page), maybe with the possibility to apply special formatting and/or note or something

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:09:13 +0000

Well, if you managed to get to the Plugin panel to click the “Delete link” button, i guess you could do many worse things, there! hehe..
Now I read again my comment, and when I said “automatically”, I meant “automatically done by the user”, instead of entering the post, and removing it…

Bad that my programming knowledge is not enough!
Thank you for the reply, anyway!

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:53:19 +0000

Not in the foreseeable future. Any kind of automatic deletion is a bit too unsafe to add it at this time. Maybe someday

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:34:13 +0000

Your plugin is awesome! Really, really helpful.
But… what about an option (where “View”, “Edit” and “Discard” are) for deleting automatically the link?
Is it possible?

Thanx!

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:56:18 +0000

Well, that is very strange.

At this point it becomes hard to suggest anything if I can’t look at the problem personally. Some thoughts -

1) Maybe your server is very fast and the plugin manages to check all links before status message is refreshed? Test : intentionally create a broken link in a post.

2) Maybe the server is very slow and the plugin always ties out before checking even one link? Partial test : go to http://your_blog_url/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/wsblc_ajax.php?action=run_check , wait while it finishes loading (if it does), view page source. There should be some HTML comments. See if any timeouts are reported.

3) Something else.