BLC 2.0 Conflict with The Events Calendar plugin

Hello @davidginzberg,

I hope things are going well for you. I am sorry to hear about the issue.

I tested the BLC 2.0 Cloud scanner with The Events Calendar Plugin, I replicated the issue and we have a plans to improve a workflow to exclude some URLs from being scanned at BLC Cloud scanner. You can expect this in the future updates. Unfortunately at the moment I don’t have any ETA to share it with you.

Currently you can try local mode of BLC to exclude them from the setting.

Regarding the 3-hour scan limit set for Cloud, I am afraid, at the moment, there is no workaround to increase the limit.

I appreciate your understanding on this issue.

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Thanks & Kind Regards,
Imran Khan

Thanks Imran,

While I wait for that update, can you tell me how BLC’s cloud scanner handles noindex and nofollow directives and robots.txt settings? I’d like to understand if those might be useful to control which URLs are scanned and I’m not seeing anything in the documentation.

Thanks,
David

Hi @davidginzberg

I am afraid it won’t but this is something we already have planned and our sysadmins are working to see what is the best approach, we don’t have any ETA though.

You can subscribe and follow our roadmap at: https://wpmudev.com/roadmap/ I’ve shared your case with our team as we are planning our next roadmap https://wpmudev.com/roadmap/#upcoming-broken-link-checker-2-4 but I can’t guarantee we would include anything related to robots.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hi,

We haven’t heard from you in a while, and you can subscribe to our Roadmap for upcoming BLC improvements. I’ll go and mark this thread as resolved. Note that you can still reply on this topic.

If you have any additional questions or require further help, please let us know!

Best regards,
Laura

Hi there,

The issue is still present and the roadmap only hints at “groundbreaking new features”, not fixing existing issues. It seems to provide quite a bit less information than the entries for other WPMU DEV products.

I’ve switched this thread back to “not resolved” to reflect the actual state of the issue. Is there a public-facing bug/issue tracker available? That would be more helpful than the roadmap in its current state.

Thank you,
David

Hi @davidginzberg

No, there’s no bug tracker currently, I’m afraid.

We do announce all major improvements and new features in roadmap when they are about to come. Actual bug fixes are always reflected in plugin’s changelog upon update releases:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/broken-link-checker/#developers

Kind regards,
Adam

Thanks Adam,

Can you tell me whether changes to the behavior of the cloud engine go into the changelog as well? As they’re two different pieces of software I would assume not, so if there’s somewhere else I should be looking for that changelog that would be helpful information.

Thanks,
David

Hi @davidginzberg

They are two different pieces of software but it’s still a single plugin so yes – they would be included in changelog.

Unless they are changes that do not affect performance/functionality/security at all and only change some internal workflows – but that is something that would be completely “transparent” and wouldn’t really matter for end-user.

They may not always be specifically marked as “cloud” as changelog is generated automatically based on the development tasks or rather push requests (as in version control like GitHub and similar) names but still – they are listed there.

Best regards,
Adam