Title: Medium.com links
Last modified: March 31, 2026

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# Medium.com links

 *  Resolved [rick111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rick111/)
 * (@rick111)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/medium-com-links/)
 * Why do links to Medium.com articles constantly appear broken, even though they
   work? It’s weird. A similar thing happens to links to SSRN articles.

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 *  Plugin Support [Williams – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport3/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport3)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/medium-com-links/#post-18868509)
 * Hi [@rick111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rick111/) ,
 * I hope you’re doing well.
 * It is normal that links from external URLs block bots like the Broken Link Checker.
   Note that this is something that we can’t control, and we do skip certain links
   from sites that are known to block those bots like x.com
 * Here is more info – [https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#scanned-skipped](https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#scanned-skipped)
 * Could you please confirm if these links are from external sites? If these are
   returning 403 and not coming from your site, it should be safe to ignore those.
 * I hope this helps.
    Best Regards, Williams Valerio
 *  Plugin Support [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport12)
 * [3 weeks, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/medium-com-links/#post-18877600)
 * Hi [@rick111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rick111/)
 * We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll go and mark this thread as resolved.
   If you have any additional questions or require further help, please let us know!
 * Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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 * Last reply from: [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * Last activity: [3 weeks, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/medium-com-links/#post-18877600)
 * Status: resolved