Comments on: Broken Link Checker 0.5 Available

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:35:12 +0000

My first impulse is to say the site is doing it wrong – the 201 code is definitely not intended for reporting errors – and so there’s nothing for me to fix. However, I have plans for eventually adding a new filter (or something similar) that would let you sort links by response code, so that might help once it’s implemented.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:36:59 +0000

Hi there I love the idea of this plugin, however it is not detecting all my broken links. There is a site that I frequently link to that uses 201 error pages (I think…the broken links all end with 201) and it is imperative to the nature of my site that I am able to find these broken links and remove the posts when they are no longer valid links. Can you provide any help?

By: BK

BK — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:46:16 +0000

Thank you soooo much! I didn’t really expect to get an answer, that’s so kind of you! Have a great day!

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:01:11 +0000

You can view & download old versions here. Any of the 0.4.x releases should be compatible with WP 2.6.1.

By: BK

BK — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:17:13 +0000

Does anyone know of a version of this I can download that will work on my install of 2.6.1? I would love to use this, even if it’s a slightly out of date version. I get “network error” when installing the newest one, so there must be an incompatability (as advertised).

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By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:20:08 +0000

new version works flawless, might have been a glitch….

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:30:36 +0000

@ ovidiu : Hmm, the plugin seems to be detecting redirects created by Redirection (arrgh) properly when I try it on my own site. Maybe the problem is with redirects in general, not just those created by that plugin? Do any other redirects show up in the plugin’s “Redirects” list?

Also, when the next version of the link checker is out (should be within 12 hours), go to the settings page and click on the small “Show debug info” link near the “Status” field. This will display a short report about your server configuration and WP installation; see if it mentions anything about redirects.

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:34:37 +0000

@ Stuart : There probably is a bug in there somewhere, but are you sure it’s that one? Snoopy is actually present in WP 2.8.4.

By: Stuart M

Stuart M — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:50:28 +0000

I recently moved one of my websites to a new server, and upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4 and Broken Link Checker Version 0.5.13.

Broken Link Checker thinks that *all* of my links are broken. Each link has the following details:

Log : === First try : 0 (No response) ===
Link is broken. (Most likely the connection timed out or the domain doesn’t exist)
HTTP code : 0

Investigating the code in the plugin, it seems that the HTTP requests are made with cURL or Snoopy. The plugin will fail silently if neither of these are present.

Code in link-classes.php looks like this:

if ( function_exists(’curl_init’) ) {
// removed link checking code.
} elseif ( class_exists(’Snoopy’) ) {
// removed link checking code.
}
// no code to detect situation where both curl_init and Snoopy do not exist (and alert the WordPress admin).

This is a bug that should be fixed.

Cheers,
Stuart.