Rating: 4 stars
Many thanks to the developers for this must-have plugin for anyone running an academic database using WordPress. The plugin provides a great solution to tackle link decay that does not involve manually creating links on perma.cc etc.
A few words on areas of possible improvement:
– better documentation for creation of local folder (and the pesky permission issues) in which archives are created
– better documentation of how to access locally stored archives (I still haven’t found how to do this)
– fix the selection of the places where archives are created: for now it seemingly randomly chooses among the three options I selected (local, perks.cc and internet archive), rather than creating three archives systematically
– better error messages – a large number of links are not archived and there is no explanation as to why that is
Rating: 5 stars
Having an internet where content is available over long periods of time is very important. This plug-in does a great job of making this dream become more realistic.
Very handy how it automatically archives all the links in each blog post. The plug-in will tell you which links were successfully saved, and which aren’t. It does not archive tweets or flickr photos. But it does a handy job of archiving other articles. You can even set the limit of how big each archived article is, and the you can set the maximum limit of all the archived articles held on your domain.
If you like, you can even bulk archive all the links on your blog at once! (use the Amber Dashboard). If you believe in an internet that is a resource for future generations, please consider using the Amber plug-in to archive all your links.
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