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https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/

A tool to make it ridiculously easy to not just find and edit broken links, but has other features to apply to them, like changing their style.

Recommended by Internet Archive, which is good enough for me.

• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/broken-link-checker/

• https://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links&filter_id=broken

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• 2023-02-28 – 2.0 on WordPress 6.1.1, with PHP 8.1.16

  • I signed up to wpmudev.com but did not give my administrator credentials. I installed their plugin instead.
  • All the configuration and use are now totally different.

• 2018-03-07 – (version not recorded) – on WordPress 4.9.4, with PHP 5.6.33

  • It’s still working fine.

Configuration ∞

Settings are under Settings > Link Checker

blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=link-checker-settings

General ∞

• Check each link: 700

  • (this is a little less than a month)
• [_] Send me e-mail notifications about newly detected broken links
• [_] Apply custom formatting to broken links

• [_] Apply custom formatting to removed links

Look For Links In ∞

• [x] Scheduled
• [x] Draft

• [x] Pending

Which Links To Check ∞

• [x] Plaintext URLs
• [x] Embedded YouTube videos (old embed code)
• [x] Embedded GoogleVideo videos
• [x] Embedded YouTube playlists (old embed code)
• [x] Smart YouTube httpv:// URLs
• [x] Embedded Vimeo videos

• [x] Embedded DailyMotion videos

Exclusion list

://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/
://blog.spiralofhope.com/?p=
://example.com
://www.example.com
://subdomain.example.com
://www.wowace.com/projects/
://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/
://archive.today/
://youtube.com/view_play_list?
://youtube.com/playlist?
://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?
://www.youtube.com/playlist?
://www.instagram.com/
://www.facebook.com/

Advanced ∞

• Timeout 90

• Show link actions [x] Fix redirect

Usage ∞

If you accidentally click dismiss link you can search your blog for removed_link.