Title: Anchor? Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Anchor? * Resolved [himitsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/himitsu/) * (@himitsu) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anchor-2/) * Why are anchor marked as broken links? * `Verweistext` * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/) * (@whiteshadow) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anchor-2/#post-5221357) * I can’t seem to reproduce that on my site. Anchor links are reported as working. * What status code and URL does the plugin show for that link? * Thread Starter [himitsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/himitsu/) * (@himitsu) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anchor-2/#post-5221593) * The problem was then solved by itself. After the article was public, it was no longer marked as invalid. It was apparently only shown in the preview, while writing. * [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/) * (@whiteshadow) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anchor-2/#post-5221594) * Ah, so the article was private before? In general, the plugin can’t check links to private or password-protected posts. When it checks a link, it attempts to load the linked page as a non-privileged visitor. So given a private post, it would probably get an “access denied” error when trying to retrieve it. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Anchor?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/broken-link-checker/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2900468) * [Broken Link Checker](https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/broken-link-checker/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/broken-link-checker/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/broken-link-checker/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/broken-link-checker/reviews/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/) * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anchor-2/#post-5221594) * Status: resolved