The same broken link that’s not broken | ww.wp.xz.cn

Resolved beatty67
(@beatty67)

1 year, 5 months ago

Ya hey, I love this plugin and use it one every website I build or maintain. One site in particular links to a newspaper online that is continually showing as a 429 Unknown Error.

Yet when I click the link that appears to be broken, I can read the article. It’s not broken.

It’s been off and on for about 3 years. Each time I check it out, I then dismiss it. The error will pop up maybe every few months or so. So it’s not every week or every month, but just frequent enough to be annoying. Is there something I can do to opt out of this particular error for this particular site?

Thanks much!

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Plugin Support Laura – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudev-support8)

1 year, 5 months ago

Hi @beatty67 ,

I hope you’re doing well.

This usually happens because the other site is blocking the bot traffic which is what is being used by BLC to check all your links, in this case, you can use the ignore option in BLC, and you can check how to do it here.

Here are examples of other sites that block bot traffic but BLC does ignore them – https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#scanned-skipped

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Williams Valerio

Plugin Support Saurabh – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudev-support7)

1 year, 5 months ago

Hello @beatty67

Hope you’re doing well today!

We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll go and mark this thread as resolved. If you have any additional questions or require further help, please let us know!

Kind Regards,
Saurabh

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