Quickly exclude a domain

  • Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)


    1 week, 3 days ago

    Howdy,

    Broken Link Checker (local) provides a field for URL exlusions, but when faced with a domain I want to exclude in the list of broken links, I need to navigate to the settings page, choose the Which Links to Check tab and enter the domain.

    That’s a hassle, especially when there are multiple domains like this in the report.

    So it would be very nice to have quick links for “Not Broken & Exclude Domain”, which will mark the link as Not Broken, and automatically add the domain bit of the URL into the exclusion list.

    Thank you for your consideration,
    Gal

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  • Plugin Support Nebu John – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport14)

    1 week, 2 days ago

    Hi @galbaras,

    Trust you are doing well, and thank you for reaching out to us.

    I see that you are using the Local version of the plugin. Could you please give a try using the new and improved Cloud version, which has a better user experience? Please find more about how to exclude URLs in the Cloud version here: https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#ignoring-links

    Please feel free to get back to us if you need any further assistance. We are here to help.

    Best Regards,
    Nebu John

    Thread Starter Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)

    6 days ago

    Hi Nebu,

    I tried the cloud checker for a while, and it was way more hassle to use it than the local checker. Also, the cloud checker excludes the specific links, which means a particular page, and I’m asking to exclude the entire domain.

    The most frequenly-reported reason for me is 403 – access denied, which is generally not specific to a page, but rather a domain policy that blocks the user agent used by the plugin. So I need to exclude entire domains and would love such a feature on the local checker.

    Finally, some sites that reject checker access are served via Cloudflare, so maybe you could look into reaching some agreement with Cloudflare that prevents this from happening.

    Thank you,
    Gal

    • This reply was modified 6 days ago by Gal Baras.
    Fida – WPMU DEV Support

    (@fidawpmudev)

    5 days, 21 hours ago

    Hello @galbaras ,

    I hope you are doing well, and thank you for the details.

    With the Cloud version, you can exclude specific domains and URLs, as well as filter by HTTP status codes. In your case, you can configure exclusions for 403 errors to prevent them from being flagged for specific domains.
    Please check this screenshot: https://prnt.sc/TPA9K775E97F

    The tool also supports both regular URLs and regex patterns, giving you flexibility in defining these rules.

    For more information, please refer to the documentation:
    https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#ignore-url-rules

    Kind Regards,
    Fida Al Hasan

    Thread Starter Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)

    5 days, 18 hours ago

    Thanks for this. Looks like the cloud option has evolved since I used it last, so I’ve activated the cloud connection on one of my sites to test. I’ll update once I see the report.

    Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport3)

    5 days, 7 hours ago

    Hi @galbaras ,

    I hope you’re doing well.

    Sure! Let us know how it goes, please.

    Best Regards,
    Williams Valerio

    Thread Starter Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)

    2 days, 5 hours ago

    I’ve run a few scans now, and I’m not getting any broken links. I’m not sure if this is because the cloud scanner gets through where the local scanner fails, or because the cloud scanner is under-reporting.

    Is there no chance of adding the requested feature to the local scanner?

    Plugin Support Jair – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport15)

    1 day, 2 hours ago

    Hello @galbaras

    The Cloud Scanner should be able to scan links that the local one can’t, as some sites and security services may be aware of the BLC Cloud User Agent, and bypass their requests.

    If you notice a link that is broken, but BLC doesn’t detect it, please share us that link so we can test it and investigate why BLC is not detecting it.

    Kind regards,
    Jair.

    Thread Starter Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)

    3 hours, 28 minutes ago

    Thank you for your reply.

    I would feel better if I could see the list of URLs that were checked and confirm that previously-broken links now pass. Is this possible? I can’t find any debugging options.

    Side note: my site has link elements with rel="icon" in the head, but the hub doesn’t seem to be able to use them as the site thumbnail, and when I upload a custom site thumbnail, it isn’t displayed in the site list (at least within 5 minutes).

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