Broken Link Checker
https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/
Description
Once installed, the plugin will begin parsing your posts, bookmarks (AKA blogroll) and other
content and looking for links. Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few
minutes up to an hour or more. When parsing is complete, the plugin will start checking each
link to see if it works. Again, how long this takes depends on how big your site is and how many
links there are. You can monitor the progress and tweak various link checking options in
Settings -> Link Checker.
The broken links, if any are found, will show up in a new tab of the WP admin panel – Tools ->
Broken Links. A notification will also appear in the “Broken Link Checker” widget on the
Dashboard. To save display space, you can keep the widget closed and configure it to expand
automatically when problematic links are detected. E-mail notifications need to be enabled
separately (in Settings -> Link Checker).
The “Broken Links” tab will by default display a list of broken links that have been detected so
far. However, you can use the links on that page to view redirects or see a listing of all links –
working or not – instead. You can also create new link filters by performing a search and
clicking the “Create Custom Filter” button. For example, this can be used to create a filter that
only shows comment links.
There are several actions associated with each link. They show up when you move your mouse
over to one of the links listed the aforementioned tab –
● “Edit URL” lets you change the URL of that link. If the link is present in more than one
place (e.g. both in a post and in the blogroll), all occurrences of that URL will be
changed.
● “Unlink” removes the link but leaves the link text intact.
● “Not broken” lets you manually mark a “broken” link as working. This is useful if you
know it was incorrectly detected as broken due to a network glitch or a bug. The
marked link will still be checked periodically, but the plugin won’t consider it broken
unless it gets a new result.
● “Dismiss” hides the link from the “Broken Links” and “Redirects” views. It will still be
checked as normal and get the normal link styles (e.g. a strike-through effect for
broken links), but won’t be reported again unless its status changes. Useful if you
want to acknowledge a link as broken/redirected and just leave as it is.
Steps to Fix Broken Links
1. Login to site
2. Goto http://thenewsaavy.com/wp-admin/plugins.php
3. Activate Broken Link Checker plugin
4. After activating goto plugin settings
http://thenewsaavy.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=link-checker-settings
5. Make sure that check each link value in general tab should be at least 72 hours (this is to
introduce delay in links checking process on the backend through a background job so that in
case of 1 hour when we hit to check all links then this will not trigger on backend)
6. You can see and check all settings in all tabs and if want to change some according to
requirement after changing don’t forget to press save button
7. Click on advanced tab inorder to invoke process (please check the options that are
highlighted, that they should be unchecked before clicking links checking button)
8. Click on Forced Recheck button to check all site links
9. Leave for at least 1 to 2 hours so that all links should be checked (you can cross verify by
clicking on Tools -> Broken Links tab if links are not increasing any more then it means its done) .
10. After that go to Tools -> Broken Links tab
http://thenewsaavy.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links Actually this is the
place where you will be fixing broken links if any
11. In the All tab you can see whole site links, in Broken tab you will be seeing the links that
are detected by the plugin as defected. You select links from here and can change them,
remove(unlink) them or Dismiss them (Dismiss means that this link will be ignored whenever
again broken link service will run)
12. Bulk Action (select many and apply one operation at onces)
13. 1 by 1 fixing (if you hover over link you will see options)
14. Onces you are done with fixing go to http://thenewsaavy.com/wp-admin/plugins.php and
simply deactivate the plugin.
15. Repeat from 8-13 whenever you want to check links again and fix them. Don’t forget to
deactivate plugin.
