Great idea, missing url filter

  • pol

    (@pscolv)


    5 months, 2 weeks ago

    I installed this plugin today, and it seems that I’ve found at last, the solution for checking broken links on my website !

    I found very interesting the idea of leveraging visitors for triggering broken links scans… indeed that doesn’t require a resource-intensive browsing, generating additional traffic, whereas the visitors already do it… and moreover, they prioritize themselves the pages most visited, which deserve more attention !

    The only issue I’ve identified sofar, is that the plugin is generating many “false positives” on some “ads” URLS, starting with …googleads.g.doubleclick.net. I suppose it’s due to specific behavior on those urls, and actually I don’t care for those, since it’s all taken care of by Google themselves.

    Therefore I think it would be great to have a “url filter” feature, allowing to discard any url containing a given pattern, like in my case ” googleads”.

    Regards,

    Pascal.

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  • Plugin Support Aristocles

    (@aristocles)

    5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Thank you for the positive review, @pscolv. There is a URL filter, though, that works exactly like you explain. Under Broken Link Checker, go to Omitted Links. From there you can enter a partial URL with an asterisk at the end (ie https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net*), which plays like a wildcard. I do this for google calendar add ons and social media share buttons, too. 👍

    Thread Starter pol

    (@pscolv)

    5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Oh great, I had missed that… that’s even better then !

    Thanks for your prompt reply,

    Pascal.

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