WordPress bundle Broken Link Checker

do you need an easy way to check for broken links on your WordPress website will keep watching in this video I’ll walk you through how you can check for broken links and fix them with the broken link Checker so if you’re ready let’s get started

be first thing we need to do is head over to our cristache board from here we need to go to are plugins area we need to add new and from here we need to search for the broken link checker for the broken link Checker plug in this is the one we’re looking for so let’s go ahead and install now once it’s finished installing you also want to make sure you click activate activated you’ll want to head over to the settings area and go to link Checker here to set it up from here you can see that it’s already started looking for broken links on the site and we can have it checked for broken links every 72 hours and you can adjust this for however you want and you want to say give a notification about newly detective broken links and what this will do is it will send an email under the admin email address if you don’t want it to go to your admin email address and you can fill out that email here so I can go to whatever address you needed to go to

and when you finish setting it up you can click save changes once it starts winding broken links there are few places that you can check and be notified of the broken links first place that you can see the broken links to text will be in the settings are you you’re hardly ever going to be in the settings area so I’ll show you a few other places that you’ll most likely find them a lot of times when you first log into your website you’ll see an area on your dashboard that will tell you about the broken links and then also under Tools you automatically see a red check mark for the broken links that are being detected and you can click on that area to see the broken links and to fix them you’ll also get notifications via email every 72 hours if there are broken link when you get the broken links detection you can go to this area under tools for broken links to fix it and you’ll see here you see the URL that is coming back as broken you’ll see the status of it in this case it’s Trevor. Usually it’s a 404 error

you’ll see the link text and the source source meaning the post or the article where the broken link is so you can do a couple of things straight from here you can ask it to recheck it and if it goes out and checks it will either come back as saying it’s okay or again it’ll come back either as broken or in our case server not found if you know this is the naira but you don’t want to deal with it you can dismiss it you can also say that it’s not broken you can unlink this so no longer have this link going out if you want to keep this focal information on there but say the website that you were linking to is no longer available or you can edit the URL straight from here you can change it to something that works like that and click update and now you can go and ask for to check and then you’ll get a good status you can also go here and click edit to edit the actual post where the link is now once you click edit you actually have to go through and find it

in this case it’s this one so you can edit it there as well that’s a really quick and easy way to detect and fix broken links on your WordPress website did you learn something from today’s video is so subscribe to our YouTube channel and will send more helpful tips to help you manage your WordPress website and thanks for watching

but everyone and welcome to another Swimming Pool Quick Fall Guy this time I’m fighting broken links to the fabric links you need to call the website and I didn’t put the screen for website the top and I’ll just kick start to is free schooling up to 500 you arouse you like Chrome or not you need to buy license you can do so I protect your license and kicking the ball license button now you can see the cruise about 12 to send you can see the completed the number remaining the bottom right-hand corner instead of waiting till this crew finishes are simply clear it’s an open up an old crew engage cruel’s I can see my list of all hotels that three screws already completed you don’t have to wait for it to go to 100% you can view broken links in real time during the crew however to view them you just need to click on with sports coats and then click on the filter and go down to client error for XX you can see that I have five links are there a broken you see the status code is 404 which is a broken link there’s another way

you can get to this area instead of having to click Response Code on this filter you cannot leave you in this right hand window paint here you can scroll down you can see the Response Code type hair with matches the top and you can see the number here S a f o x x 5 x 5 break a link so we have what we need to know next is book page These Broken Wings around so you can see I have a broken link to the party in the u.s.a. website to this is obscene external link that we link out to for my website to view the page that links out to this person that cut you need to click on this England’s type of the bottom you can see here that the 2018 a year in a review page link to the brightness setting page link text one of the brats and you can see the link is follow didn’t have healing attributes on it so you don’t have no follow-up meeting on my lunch I don’t confuse those pages of one of these broken links like that

how to export these broken links in bulk I recommend using the bulk expertoption go. Response codes and the clicking on puntero 4X x in links in links we mean Seuss pages to the pages that have the broken necks on them so you’ll get a list of all those pages and all the broken things in it one guy that finally one extra ticket if you don’t want to call the website to find broken links you simply want to update a list of your routes who needs do tickle mode list

any you can take on upload insipid pasting list of Euros to see if any of those respond with a Ford. Funny broken legs

let’s go ahead and go to the broken link Checker and show you how else you can do it not only just on workflow but you can actually come here to content and there is a link Checker here as well as there’s two different ways to do it even from here I can go to my any content like that document our content that has

wysiwyg zortex pills where you can go ahead and put links and I can run a check right now on just that individual, or I can actually go to my rolls and tools

go to my siames admin here go to my role go to tools and I guess I would want that under system

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I will add another tool

and I’ll make it my job scheduler

there’s my job scheduler I can save

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now I’ve got my job scheduler down here so I just added a brand new Port lip and I can go ahead and create new jobs as all sorts of systems jobs here that you can go ahead and monitor so I can create a new job call Ed sent you know nightly link check

because it could be that they that the contact goes stale so it’s nice to have that on the contents of that they’re not generally know he’s content Publishers not generating bad content but but what if it goes stale after they’ve created so I can run a nightly check and run it once every day at you know what would this would be the start date so I just may be the one to start it now and then the class to be executed I can pick multiple jobs in sysadmin training and it goes over the other ways that you can go ahead and schedule cron jobs and then maybe I want it at once everyday at 1 a.m.

the chronic depression there and then I click save and now there’s a nightly link check that’s going to send emails and notifications and workflow task to everyone who’s got a bad link and we’ll keep annoying the nightly basis until they start fixing their links

so three different ways to link check you can link check from your workflow you can link check by going to the content and Link Checker and running manually on a specific type of content like yours are generic content we automatically generate some bad links on purpose so we can see that and also we can run a nightly job that runs it all the time and we don’t have to touch the thing and tells everyone who has Beth likes and gets them workflow likes back to their content