A couple of questions having moved to BLC Cloud

Hi @wpsi1

I hope you’re well today and thank you for contacting us.

is there any way to add an exclusion list like there was on local scanner? I’d like to exclude checks of things like affiliate links as these always cause errors, even though they are working links

No, currently there’s no option to set an exclusion list. There are some types of URLs that are already excluded out of the box

https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#scanned-skipped

but you can’t define your own yet. There’s a plan to add exclusions list in future but I don’t have ETA.

The cloud scanner is reported 250+ “broken links” on my site, where the local version had shown none. These seem to be all “403 forbidden” links. Checking a hand full of these shows they do actually all work. Is there any way to bulk dismiss/ignore from the cloud dashboard as clicking each of them individually to ignore takes forever

This usually is related to settings/security rules of the checked URL. The “403 forbidden” HTTP status is issued if the checked URL “does not allow” incoming request. In case of Local engine, all those checks are made directly from your site and server while with Cloud engine – it’s from our crawler app. This may make a difference.

If those 403 are coming from your site, you would need to make sure that following IPs and/or user-agent string are allowed in any firewall your site or server may be using:

165.227.127.103
64.176.196.23
144.202.86.106

WPMU DEV Broken Link Checker Spider

when a link has been ignored, it still shows up in the list, is there any way to hide them

It should get “grayed out” when it’s set to be ignored and it will not be scanned again. If it was removed, you wouldn’t be able to “unignore” it. At least for now since there’s only one list and no additional settings.

Kind regards,
Adam

Hi Adam, many thanks for the reply and explanations.

By way of further feedback, i think the ability for the user to add exclusions would be very beneficial, so it would be great if that was added at some point.

Regarding those that have been ignored, that;s useful to keep them available but it would just be nice if there was a way to filter or categorise the list so that i could hide those that were ignored previously, and just focus on anything new/still needing action

Hi @wpsi1,

We already have plans to improve the workflow regarding this in the plugin side and I’ll make sure to bring your feedback to our team’s attention so that they are aware of your?request.

At the moment, I’m afraid there isn’t any exact ETA we could provide. You can subscribe to our Roadmaps page for any new updates regarding the upcoming?features.
https://wpmudev.com/roadmap/

Kind Regards,
Nithin

Hi @wpsi1,

Please do note that we have raised this as a feature request to our BLC team so that we can check the possibility of implementing this down the roadmap.

While we cannot provide a specific timeline yet, you can get updates on our upcoming feature by subscribing to our roadmap at:

 https://wpmudev.com/roadmap/

Since this feature request has been acknowledged, we’re marking this as resolved for now. However, if you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you for your understanding.

Best Regards,

Nithin

The exclusion list is very much important as said. In my case the edited links were not actually updated through cloud. Update link works fine in local mode. But local mode doesn’t show errors like cloud. This is a tricky situation.