Comments on: Broken Link Checker Plugin Version 0.3

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:46:24 +0000

A month seems too much for me, I wouldn’t use anything higher than 2 weeks myself.

The plugin doesn’t use that much bandwidth. It tries to use only HEAD requests (doesn’t download the page, just checks it) when possible. However, it will double-check problematic links by attempting to download the entire page, which could expend a bit more bandwidth.

By: Liverpool

Liverpool — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:09:53 +0000

Works well! great thanks, using in 2.7.1 ok.

It does find some broken links in post revisions which could confuse some.
(I have now disabled and removed all revisions!)

I have set to link check every 730 hours (1month), as our posts don’t change that often. Is this wise? I just wanted to save bandwidth. Does this checker use much processing power & bandwidth?

By: Greg Smith

Greg Smith — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:14:22 +0000

Having just moved from one blogging platform to WordPress, I had a ton of internal broken links. I would like to suggest that the broken link list just show internal links and links from specific domains. There’s not much I can do about external links but I like the way they are crossed out.

Using it with 2.7 without issues so far.

By: KadincaModa

KadincaModa — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:56:54 +0000

Wooow. Nice Plug. Very nice share

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:08:53 +0000

@JC - Your idea was added to a very long list of suggested features. That is all. :P

By: JC

JC — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:36:59 +0000

You know what would be great to add on to this would be to list the 301 redirects, and an ability to mass update them by any certain domain which changes their URL format. This would identify in most cases expired domains which become link farms and return as a 301, but certainly not something you want to still link to.

By: bayan

bayan — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:47:16 +0000

thank good plugin broken link checker

By: Dade Williams

Dade Williams — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:13:34 +0000

ahh, well it appears it has worked

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:06:08 +0000

You know, when you hit the “Delete” link, it just sends a request to the server – it’s not deleted instantly. So if you click it a lot of times and navigate away from the page some links might not get deleted ;)

By: Dade Williams

Dade Williams — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:36:01 +0000

correction the dashboard does show the 517 broken links message but eitherway minor bug ;)