Hello @galbaras
At this moment, the Local version of Broken Link Checker doesn’t have a function to exclude notifications or alerts when the plugin can’t access a link with a 403 error message. Usually this error message appears when the crawler can’t load a page because the access is forbidden. For the Cloud-based Link Checker, this can be solved by adding the Broken Link Checker IP addresses found in our documentation:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/getting-started/wpmu-dev-ip-addresses/
The Local Link Checker works inside your site, as a plugin, it shouldn’t be blocked by the site or a firewall of the site when it checks links of your site. But it can be occasions where you have a link pointing to another site, and the crawler can’t check it because that other site blocks it. In the case you get a notification like that, confirm that the link effectively loads for you, and then add that link in the exclusion list by going to Link Checker -> Settings -> Which Links to Check -> Exclusion list.
If that doesn’t work for you, please share us more information about what kind of errors or alerts are you getting, if the broken link is from your site or an external site, and if adding that link to the exclusion list doesn’t work.
Kind regards,
Jair.
Well, it seems like many popular sites, like freepik.com, pixabay.com and news sites, block the local checker, even when it checks a single page. This could mean that the user agent is deemed to be a bot and disallowed, but this type of error has never been real in years of running the plugin.
If the plugin cannot filter out 403 errors right now, please add this option, because I will happily use it.
This can be added as a PHP filter for advanced users, if you’re concerned about novices making mistakes.
Thank you.
Hi @galbaras
I will share your feedback with our development team. I hope we can implement it in future updates.
However I can’t give you any promises or ETAs.
Best Regards
Amin
Hi @galbaras
Since we have acknowledged this will be improved in a future update, I’ll mark it as resolved for now.
For new feature updates, you can get notifications on our progress by subscribing to our roadmap at https://wpmudev.com/roadmap/
Once new versions are released, any pertinent changes will be described in the changelog, which you can find at:
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/broken-link-checker/#developers
Kind Regards,
Nithin
