As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.
WPMUDEV
I am now using WPmudev’s “Broken Link Checker” which I believe to be the successor of the tool I used to use. It is struggling under the load, as it needs to create a safe image and this peruse over 80,000 links. The scans keep failing after three hours and the choices are to ignore or unlink. The latter takes a lot of time. I miss the old dismiss category which would ignore until changed. I am not happy I understand its search and report parameters and syntax.
I am also unclear how to use it, so the first job is to read the documentation. I may want to check the support forum threads where I would post any queries.
AIOSEO
WPbeginner in this article, recommend https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker-seo/.
I need to check this out. Perhaps I should test it on mom.davelevy.info, which needs to be moved to www.davelevy.info.
Newt Labs
They have an article called, 11 quick and easy ways to fix broken links in wordpress.
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