explaining “Link monitor” options

  • Resolved Joe Westcott

    (@redredweb)


    5 years ago

    Hi! Could you explain two of the options in this plugin?

    Within the Advanced > Link Monitor section, these two options exist:

    1. Run continuously while the Dashboard is open
    2. Run hourly in the background

    Can you explain what these options do? I can guess, but it’s still a bit unclear.

    It’s unclear because there’s also a General > “Check each link” option, which is set to “Every [48] hours” on one site that I manage.

    So if the BLC plugin is checking each link on the site every 48 hours, what else is it doing “continuously” and “hourly” as noted in the two options listed above?

    Thanks for clarifying!

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  • Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    Hi @redredweb

    I hope you’re well today and thank you for your question!

    The “Run continuously while the Dashboard is open” option means that whenever an administrator is logged in to the site, browsing the back-end, Broken Link Checker keeps running quietly in background to detect new links, add them to the list of discovered links and check them. When you “go out” of dashboard it stops doing that.

    The “Run hourly in the background” option means that the plugin will do the same also if nobody’s visiting back-end of the site – it will be automatically fired up every hour to perform that task.

    The “check each link every X” hours means that the plugin goes through the list of detected links that it has already saved and checks them. It takes a link from a link list stored in the database, looks for when it was tested last time and if it was at least X hours ago – it checks it again and updates its status.

    Basically, the “check each link every X hours” doesn’t mean that plugin always checks each and every link on the site at X hours interval. It checks links that it already detected and has stored in the database as a list. To let it automatically detect new links you’d need “Link monitor” to be enabled.

    Best regards,
    Adam

    Thread Starter Joe Westcott

    (@redredweb)

    Got it, Adam. That helps a lot, thank you!

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