Very Bad Plugin

  • savannah65

    (@savannah65)


    1 month ago

    I had a very poor experience after installing the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer plugin.

    Immediately after activation, my website became completely inaccessible. I could not open any page on the frontend, and the site showed errors or failed to load entirely. The only way to regain access was to log into the WordPress control panel and uninstall the plugin manually.

    As long as this plugin remained active, the site was unusable. This behavior is extremely risky, especially for live or business websites, as it can cause sudden downtime without any clear warning or recovery option.

    There was no proper error message, no fallback mechanism, and no indication of what caused the conflict. For a plugin that modifies links automatically, this level of instability is unacceptable.

    Because of this experience, I would strongly advise other users to avoid installing this plugin on a live site or to test it only in a staging environment first. In its current state, it feels unreliable and potentially harmful.

    Overall, this plugin caused more problems than it solved, and I cannot recommend it.

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  • Plugin Contributor Chuck Grimmett

    (@cagrimmett)

    1 month ago

    Hi @savannah65, I’m sorry you ran into problems with the plugin.

    Would you be able to share the error messages you received to help us figure out what happened? If you share which host you are on, I’m happy to share how to find those error logs.

    Also, would you be able to share more information about your WordPress instance? Please navigate to /wp-admin/site-health.php?tab=debug and click “Copy site info to clipboard”, then paste it here.

    Thank you in advance. We haven’t seen this issue before and would love to get to the bottom of it!

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