Fri 11 Jul 2008
Broken Links Remover
Posted by techblissonline under Plugins
(57 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)
Loading ...Broken links Remover wordpress plugin helps you fix bad/broken links, both text links(anchor tags) and image links (img tags).It blocks the display of such links on your wordpress post/page, until you fix them. These links would not be visible to search engine robots as well as the human readers, until you correct them.
Links are very commonly used in posts/pages. Quite often, these links may get broken when a page, that the link represents, is deleted or when a site to which you have linked has moved to a different domain or when a subdirectory is forgotten or for any other reasons including a typo.
Broken links, on your site, are bad for your readers as well as the search engine crawlers.
How is Broken links remover different from several broken link checker tools available on the web?
- Broken links remover does not scan through all your posts/pages in the background.It works as and when the requestor (human reader or search engine robot) requests a post/page on your wordpress site.However, once a link has been detected as bad/broken, Broken links remover plugin does not check the link’s status again, until you fix it.
- Broken links remover plugin not only alerts you of bad/broken links through dashboards but it also removes(hides) those links from the requestor’s view
Broken links remover can either use CURL or PHP’s native socket functionalities (FSOCKOPEN) to detect link’s status, as some hosts disable the use of FSOCKOPEN or CURL.
While Platinum SEO Plugin helps you automate the onsite SEO (search engine optimization) process, Broken links Remover Wordpress Plugin complements it by automatically removing/hiding all bad/broken links on your website, until you fix them.
This plugin helps in making the web cleaner.This plugin also helps you link to the final destination, in case the website to whom you have linked to uses a 301 (permanent) redirection.Eventually you are helping him out, by linking to the page to which he has moved the content.Find out why broken links are bad for both your readers and search engines at my site.
(57 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5) Loading ...
July 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Your plugin Broken Links Remover is a good idea. However, it removed the more link in my posts and left the words “Read More” (or whatever I had it set for) Anyway, there was no link to the more link.
I thought you might want to know about this.
Also, in theory, shouldn’t there have been a list of the more links that were removed listed in the Broken Links table? That table was empty.
July 26th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Looks like it has the potential for being very helpful but it needs some work. There’s something wrong with the MySQL syntax - it filled my error logs up with errors from both the SELECT and INSERT INTO queries. Also it’s a little difficult to tell from the logs alone, but it seems to have tried to mark all the “mailto:” links as 301 errors which seems odd to me.
I’d be happy to provide some bits of logfile privately if you’d like.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:34 am
I’d love to see this work but it broke my blog with a Fatal error because it requires Curl.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:22 am
adrienne, There were some confusions in the versions i made available for download, due to my inability to version them.The latest one on the site will work for you.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thanks for the updated version - problem fixed!
July 29th, 2008 at 12:52 am
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August 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Removed links which weren’t broken. Very annoying.
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August 9th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Good potential but no cigar. Things that should be fixed/changed.
1) Removing the links should be optional.
2) It should check for curl on activation, and deactivate itself if it’s not available (with a message why).
August 10th, 2008 at 3:01 am
1)Yes the option will soon be introduced.
2) The plu supports curl and fsockopen.so if curl is not there it will continue to run with fsockopen.If neither can’t be run, then a warning is displayed when you setup the plugin.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:02 am
1)Yes the option will soon be introduced.
2) The plugin supports curl and fsockopen.so if curl is not there it will continue to run with fsockopen.If neither can’t be run, then a warning is displayed when you setup the plugin and the plugin does not work.