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AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Could you provide more information? For example, what error message did you get, and how exactly did the plugin crash your site (errors, blank pages, etc)?
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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What button are you referring to? The plugin always starts automatically. There's no option to run it manually.
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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That sounds like it might be a bug. What exactly do you do to fix a redirect: do you use the "Fix redirects" bulk action, the "Fix redirect" link next to the "Recheck" link, or do you manually edit the URL?
In the first two cases, the link should automatically disappear from the "Redirects" list. If you edit the URL manually, it might take a while for that to happen, and the it might stay in the list if the new URL is also a redirect.
Also, is the plugin detecting redirects correctly? Normally, the "status" column should show the status of the last page in the redirect chain, not the redirect itself. So if it's something like 301 instead of 200, the server might not be configured to allow following redirects.
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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I've sent you an email.
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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While it's not as convenient as an actual "pause" button, turning off both "Link monitor" options in "Settings -> Link Checker -> Advanced" would effectively pause the link checker.
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Perhaps. From a discoverability perspective, maybe the plugin could also display a notice after installation that tells the user where to find its admin menus. One of my other plugins shows something like "Tip: Go to Settings -> Example to start using plugin X". The notice automatically disappears when you visit the plugin page for the first time. Several users commented that they found this helpful..
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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Consistency is certainly good, but breaking backwards compatibility/user habits is bad. The menu names have been like that for years. I'd be wary of changing them now.
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Yep. In general, BLC is supposed to detect changed posts automatically. but changing them directly in the database bypasses the usual notification mechanisms.
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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Usually you can trigger a partial rescan by opening the post(s) in the editor and clicking "Update" (without actually changing anything).
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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Both approaches have their trade-offs. I suspect that sending 100 AJAX requests that each process one link would take significantly more time and cause more server load than batch-processing 100 links in one request.
Each request has a considerable overhead: load and run WordPress files, connect to the database, load the current theme, load all active plugins, do a bunch of pre-processing to determine which plugin/hook should handle the request, check user permissions, etc. Doing all of that only once is more efficient than repeating the entire process for each link.
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Interesting. I can't seem to reproduce this bug in my own Gmail account. BLC's email notifications look fine and the "see all broken links" link works correctly.
Could this be a strange plugin conflict of some sort? Do you have any plugins that filter outgoing email, or change the WordPress admin URLs somehow (e.g. domain mapping)?
Also, I noticed that this line is exactly 78 characters long (not including the trailing space):
You can see all broken links here:<br><a href="http://danforthgreens.ca/word
Many email clients hard-wrap lines at somewhere between 70 to 80 characters. Normally this wouldn't affect HTML email, and BLC definitely doesn't wrap its emails, but it might still be a clue.
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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The query string probably isn't the problem. BLC checks other links with query strings just fine, and even the example link you posted was correctly marked as working (i.e. not broken) when I added it to a test site. More likely, there's either a temporary network problem or some kind of server configuration issue.
What status message does the plugin show for these links? You can click on the message to display more details about the link. What does the "Log" field say?
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1 voteAdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Try completely uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin.
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Did you uninstall through WordPress and allow it delete plugin data, or just delete the plugin folder via FTP? In this case you would need to uninstall it via WP for it to help.
Other than that, you could try manually deleting the "wsblc_options" entry from the "wp_options" table.
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Are you quite sure it's not some other plugin? This plugin doesn't add any links to sites (it simply doesn't have that capability), it just checks links that already exist.
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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What status message does the plugin report for those links? Is it "404 Not Found" or something else?
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3 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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Snow blizzard? It should already report missing YouTube videos if you turn on YouTube API under Settings -> Link Checker -> Protocols & APIs.
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2 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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If this only affects pictures then there's probably something on your server that prevents the plugin from accessing them. For example, some kind of hotlink protection setting or anti-crawler script.
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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"Comments -> Trash", "Posts -> All Posts -> Trash" for posts, and so on.
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14 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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Normally that would happen automatically. If it doesn't, try updating the posts (sources) without changing anything. That should get rid of the links.
An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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Just go to "Settings -> Link Checker" and enable "Send authors e-mail notifications about broken links in their posts".
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
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There are many, many things that can cause false positives. They range from simple server configuration errors to sites deliberately blocking all automated requests. Without further information, it's impossible to say what exactly went wrong in your case.
What status message(s) does the plugin show for those links? Do all of the links point to the same site, or different sites? Do the links have anything else in common (e.g. all are images, or they redirect to a different page when clicked, etc)? If you click the status message to view additional link details, what does it say in the "Log" section?
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An error occurred while saving the comment AdminJānis Elsts
(Admin, W-Shadow.com)
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It already re-checks each broken link several times with an interval of about 30 minutes. Of course, a site can be down for longer than 30 * X minutes, so this is not a foolproof solution.
The trouble is, it *does* already work on the sites that I've tried. To fix a bug, there needs to be a way to reproduce it. Could you post more details about what links you tried to replace and what exactly was the result?
For example, were there any error messages? Did the post in question get modified at all, or did the function do nothing? Did anything show up in the PHP error log?