This morning I came across a Broken Links Checker plugin for Wordpress while looking to see why my tag cloud disappeared when I updated it (it’s back).
Looks like a good idea.
I thought.
It adds a Broken Links link to the Wordpress dashboard. I was unprepared for what it found.
First, 3 broken links. I started fixing them, but as I did so more and more were being added to the list. Eventually it stopped at about 30.
I’ve removed or updated half of them and will get to the rest gradually. The reasons the links were broken were quite varied
- a domain name change
- https in the link instead of http
- a web site reorganized (path changes)
- pages removed from the web, apparently; discontinued products in some cases
- URL errors (e.g., this blog’s URL spuriously entered at the start of the link; how?)
It seems to me that something like this should be built into Wordpress. I wish I’d found it earlier.
Recommended if you use Wordpress.
Update: All broken links have now been fixed or removed, leaving 1,510 good links. I suppose the good news is that 99.9% of the links were fine!
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