False Positives with Enable Media Replace plugin

Hi @pcosta88,

Trust you are doing good and sorry to know that you are experiencing an issue.

I tested this on a website at our end but was unable to replicate the issue. Can you please let us know which replacement option was chosen while replacing the image files (Just replace the file or Replace the file, use the new file name, and update all links)?

We look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind Regards,
Nebu John

Hi @pcosta88

If you are using the classic/legacy Broken Link Checker engine (not the new 2.0) the issue is most likely related directly to how it works: it’s not about it not being able to see the difference but about it just having “old” (already swapped) URLs stored in links database.

Specifically: when plugin discovers links on site, it gathers them in its own DB table and then checks them periodically. When it checks them, it simply takes the URLs from that DB table.

You would need to force plugin to “re-discover” URL then by using “Force recheck” Option.

In previous version of the plugin you’ll find it at “Settings -> Link Checker -> Advanced” page. In current version it’s on “Link Checker -> Settings (Old) -> Advanced” page.

You’ll see a “Re-check all pages” button at the bottom of that page which will cause plugin to re-scan the site and “re-discover” all the URLs. Since those old image URLs are no longer there, they won’t be detected and checked anymore.

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If you are using new plugin engine 2.0 – there’s nothing like that and the only reason for it to keep checking such URLs would be only if they are stuck in some sort of cache on your site’s end and our external crawler is simply served with pages that still contain those URLs. In such case clearing all caches before re-running scan should suffice.

Best regards,
Adam