Forced to register, changed plugin

  • Why are you forcing customers to register an account with you?

    1. most of the time I have to do a manual check in order to find broken links
    2. and this is very very annoying
    3. changed to another plugin
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  • Plugin Support Kris – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport13)

    Hi @mark8181

    I hope you are doing well today.

    Please note that the new part of core have some benefits:
    https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/

    The new part of the core is less bloat because it’s run by an engine we’ve developed and runs on the WPMU DEV side. In the end, it won’t take down your server resources, and we are the ones who pay for the resources used on our side. Taking into account some hostings with low resources and having on site many plugins, taking down 1 cron job from the site is a benefit.

    Note, you don’t need to have the WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin and connection to HUB to still use the old engine/old version of the plugin. After the recent update, you can use/switch to the old version which is still a part of the core of Broken Link Checker 2.0.

    Kind Regards,
    Kris

    Thread Starter mark8181

    (@mark8181)

    Hi thank you for the answer, it helped me to understand. Is there any way I can edit the previous answer?

    So, I have now registered an account and run a scan. I have a few questions:

    1. The old version indicated 0 broken links, now the new scan indicates 780+ broken links, why? was the old version too bad or this one too good?
    2. In the old version I could edit the link or access directly to the page where the link was. Now I cannot find all these options. Where can I find them?

    Thanks

    Plugin Support Patrick – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport12)

    Hi @mark8181

    I hope you are doing well.

    The engines are different, in V1, it scans your database and some links are skipped but the V2 it scans the front end so it will find more links and possibly report more.

    But if you feel it is too much false positive feel free to open a ticket and we can take a deeper look.

    About your question two, not yet, we finished the v2 engine and now we are going to implement more features, the editing link I can see it is a popular request so I hope we can implement it soon, but in HUB > Broken Link Checker you should be able to see the link and page where the link is located.

    For review, you should be able to see the Edit option below review.

    Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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