Broken Link Checker

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    1. Replace broken links by the follow structure:

      Sometimes, in the process of remove the broken link, it is necessary to keep the information of the old URL for research consistency. The relevance of some pages for researchers of any kind, depends to keep this reference (URL). It`s a way to inform them that, even besides the link is not available anymore, I will know that the exactly URL was available in that page once. For example, look to this sentence:

      <p>The astronomer Carl Sagan <a href="http://example.com/speach.html">said once</a> that the probability of us, human beings, being alone in the universe is near "4”.</p>

      I`m sugesting that… more

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      • Apply css selectively to broken links

        ...rather than applying to ALL broken links. What I'd really like to do is keep certain broken links, apply a css class, and remove those links from future broken link reports. Thanks!

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        • Permanently mark a redirect as OK

          Some links detected as redirects I would like to mark such that they are reported again only if the redirect changes. For instance, I have a link to http://www.r5.fs.fed.us/plumas/incident/streamfire/ which expands to http://fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gjAwhwtDDw9_AI8zPwhQoY6IeDdGCqCPOBqwDLG-AAjgb6fh75uan6BdnZaY6OiooA1tkqlQ!!/dl3/d3/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnZ3LzZfMjAwMDAwMDBBODBPSEhWTjBNMDAwMDAwMDA!/?ss=110511&navtype=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&cid=FSE_003853&navid=091000000000000&pnavid=null&position=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&ttype=main&pname=Plumas%20National%20Forest-%20Home/incident/streamfire/

          I don't ever want to publish that long ugly link, and expect that it may change the next time the site switches CRM software, but hope that the short pretty one will have greater longevity.

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          • Proxy Support

            Some of the picture/video sharing sites block IPs if there are many requests in short amount of time. So the BLC returns broken links even if they are not broken. This is a problem on bigger blogs and on shared hosts where multiple people share one IP. A box where we could input multiple proxy servers to use would be helpful to solve this problem.

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            • Show destination of redirection

              Plugin correctly detect (301) redirection.
              It should be useful, show the destination url in another column.

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              • 20 votes
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                • make it work for ms-wordpress again, please! "Installation failed" in all sub-blogs after update

                  tried to de- and re-activate, de- and re-install it, nothing helps

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                  • 13 votes
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                    • wikipedia

                      Im using auto search wikipedia function

                      example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword Keyword

                      which keyword is celebrity name (post title). some celebrity name is not in Wikipedia, I wanna show user that link is broken, maybe highlighted with red text

                      example broken link:
                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No Name

                      Thank you

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                      • List Links MISSING their 'TITLE' attibute

                        Many agree that applying TITLE tags to links is good SEO practice, and certainly good usability. It would be EASY to add a list of links missing their TITLE attribute and allow it to be added.

                        I suggest instead of creating a special title editor, you have a universal link editor that opens up, so that if, when correcting a broken link you notice it needs work on the title it can all be done in one place.

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                        • Broken link when 404 by Self hosted images

                          I've tested it a few times and I think it's not included yet. I use WP 3.0.1 with the Suffusion Theme and when I deleted an image that is included in a page or post it won't show up in the broken list.

                          This probably is because it redirects to a 404 page not found. But I would really like to see it come up in my broken list. Is this possible?

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                          • 11 votes
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                            • MegaVideo Support

                              Add MegaVideo embed video support and I'll buy it for sure :)

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                              • Don't check links from certain categories

                                Let me exclude specific categories from link checking.

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                                • wordpress-mu

                                  Please consider the broken link checker to work with wordpress-mu (mulitsites). I use wordpress mu and when I install broken link checker, it only works for the mainsite. When I run the plugin with my wordpress mu, it just checks the mainsite again.

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                                  • Links on sub-directory-installed WordPress coming up as broken

                                    I have my WordPress installed to a sub-directory on the server root. This plugin is detecting many links in my blog as broken when they are not. What's happening is it's throwing the sub-directory in front of the permalink, which is incorrect. It's happening on links like this:

                                    <a href="#somePageAnchor">asdf</a>

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                                    • Allow users to edit link text

                                      Editting the link is great, but sometimes the link text is also wrong.

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                                      • Add a separate category for URL shoteners

                                        You should recognize short URLs from services such as bit.ly, and categorize these differently. I want to keep track of these, but they need to be handled differently from other redirects, as the author will likely want to keep them around permanently do to the preference for sharing them over their long ugly expanded forms, but will want to be notified if the redirect breaks.

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                                        • Dummy links <a href="#">

                                          In addition to broken links, a good value add would be to also find dummy links that are put as placeholders while a site in under development.

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