Very good start

Promising plugin and off to an excellent start. I have a website that has nearly 20 years of content, so you can imagine how many broken links I might have. This one scans them in one of the most performant ways I have seen in these types of plugins – it’s about as fast as you could expect given the nature of the checking process is inherently slow.

Everything is written to a couple of database tables that are well-designed, so you can easily check those directly and understand what is going on if you are comfortable with MySQL.

The interface is simple and easy to understand and navigate, and it performs well, too. And the idea overall – linking to a past snapshot of a link – is a fantastic alternative to just leaving a link broken.

It desperately needs two things to make it even better:

1. An exclusion list to skip entirely for scans (for sites that you know beforehand are ok or will return false positives). This would have dramatically sped up the checking time for my site, and I am sure I am not the only one.
2. A method to filter out entirely anything that has already been fixed. This is important because you can easily end up “fixing” links more than once and the plugin is not smart enough to skip items you’ve already fixed, which can make for some interesting URLs (where the webarchive URL prefix is prepended recursively, making the link totally useless). Especially important on a site like mine with upwards of 20000 links. The recovery feature is nice but it also does not work in those circumstances, so your only option is restoring from a database backup and doing it all over (or a LOT of manual cleanup).

• This topic was modified 1 week, 2 days ago by sephage.