Many broken links

  • Resolved woodypad

    (@woodypad)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,
    thanks again for your plugin.
    I have a question I’ll explain briefly.

    In the site I’m following, I had to remove some changes that affected and changed the links and were creating problems with future updates. Being a blog with thousands of articles, many of these links that are indexed and linked on social media are now broken.

    I was using your plugin to figure out which ones they are. But there seem to be so many and I was wondering if there was an automatic function that, recognizing the links, would reconnect them.
    Or do you have a tip on how to fix them?
    One last thing, you were telling me that many can be robot reports, but how do I distinguish or filter them from real broken links?

    Thank you

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    No, the plugin has no way of knowing what broken URL should connect to a working URL. Maybe you can use a regular expression?

    https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

    It is hard for a human to determine what is a bot and what is not, and the plugin doesn’t attempt to do this. You can use the grouping dropdown to group what are the most affected URLs.

    Thread Starter woodypad

    (@woodypad)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    thanks again for your reply.

    I still have a question.
    The feature that creates automatic redirects is very useful, but I have noticed that it is creating a lot of redirects, as some authors immediately after publishing the article decide to change the title, even simply removing a letter.
    The function creates a new redirect, although sometimes it is not necessary as the link has not yet been deployed.

    Is it possible to activate a message asking the author if he wants to create a redirect?

    Thank you

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    No, it’s not possible to do that – there are many different ways a post URL can change, and not all of them have a user interface. Even if Redirection doesn’t create a redirect then WordPress will do it for you anyway.

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