I use quite a few affiliate links in WPLift (I use the Totally free Link Cloaker straightforward plugin to deal with), but I wanted a way to check if any they were dead, as this would mean losing potential income. The really very good solution for this difficulty I discovered was the free of charge shuttle, broken Checker plugin. This guide will show you how to install and configure this plugin to enable anylize your blog for dead links.
Broken Link Checker Download the plugin, then upload to the wp-content/plugins folder via FTP. You can download a free FTP client called Filezilla for this purpose.
You can also load the plugin directly through your WordPress admin panel, click Plug-ins> Add New> Top> Install now.
You also want to enter your FTP settings in addition, your hosting service will be provided when you subscribed.
Once the plugin is loaded, go to the plugins page and click “activate” next to the plugin.You now see a new menu item called “Link Checker” tab Settings. Leave the plug for 5 minutes or so, the 1st time you activate it, it starts anylizing your messages and comments for any broken link.
After the plugin has been for a time, click the “Link Checker” tab to configure some choices. Wait until it says “No URLs in the queue.” At the top, that means over. The first tab is “General” here is the configuration I use:
The next tab over is “search links” can leave the settings as the defaults, Check broken links: Blogroll articles, comments, pages, Mail. I do not use custom fields and custom fields left unchecked – you might want to allow this option if your theme uses custom fields containing URLs. The next part is for the Status of Mail, I do not generally line positions for the future – post them right away, so I went in this section by default is “public” blogs.
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The next tab over is “linking Check” and permits you to specify whether or not the plugin to check: HTML links, images HTML, plain text, URL’s, videos, Vimeo, DailyMotion Video, YouTube videos and has a section of exclusions (Do not check the links in a URL that contains any of these words.) Check the suitable place, I marked HTML and HTML images as I do not embed any videos.
In this tab you can select to check the links with HTML basics or a lot more API MediaFire, MegaUpload, etc. – who left as basic HTML, but if you use any of the websites listed below, you may want to use your API
The last tab is the “Advanced” where you can configure various timeout values , limit server load and could also re-check your whole web site.
Now that you have set your choices, if the plugin locate any broken link time to correct them. Under the “Tools” is a new link “Broken Links”, if you have a broken will have a number next to it.
Your broken links are shown, together with the difficulty at his side. You can go via and edit the links where you made a mistake, you can select to unlink or you can mark it “not broken” – this could happen if a internet site was temporarily down when the plugin ran.
There you have it, a actually practical plug-in for the maintenance of links link structure.