How to get links to stop breaking

  • My links keep breaking, just the links I display in my post content that are links to my other posts or pages, and I’m not sure why or what it is im doing to cause it.

    Newbie here, so can someone give me a quick list of things that I shouldn’t/should do in order to keep my links intact?

    It is very annoying having to manually fix all my links, are there any plugins for that?

    And is there any way to make a link permanently unbreakable no matter what?

    Thanks! ??

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  • I am not sure what you mean by links breaking exactly….you write a post, include an internal site link and at some point the link no longer works?

    In the visual editor, if you highlight some text, the anchor button will no longer be grayed out….click it and then see there now how you can link to content that already exists on your blog.

    If you have changed your site domain/address, you can change all the old links in the db.

    Can you explain better what the problem is?

    Thread Starter thunderseed

    (@thunderseed)

    More information:

    A broken link means that when you click on it, it redirects you to a 404 error. This usually means the url it is linked to no longer exists or has changed.

    There is no problem, I just want to know the ways that you can break links – to prevent it in the future. (Because I make stupid mistakes all the time and tend to break my links a lot. I want to make sure I know all the ways that I can break links so that I can prevent it from happening ever again. Because I don’t like fixing links.) Does that make more sense?

    When I transferred my wordpress blog and domain over to a new host, all of my links broke, except for the ones linking to outbound sites. I had to spend a few days going through all of my posts fixing all of my links. I did not go through DB, I did it manually through the post editor. I did not have that many posts since im new to blogging and all, but it was tiresome, and I don’t want to ever do it again lol.

    Since then I have noticed the links I have manually changed keep breaking randomly, when i do random things. So far I have noticed my main mistake is changing urls, but there might also be other things I am doing, which is why I am asking for a list of things that can cause broken links.
    I know it is something I am doing because I have been spending the last week customizing my blog, changing titles, changing SEO, changing themes, changing everything pretty much – changing urls. I already made the mistake of changing urls and breaking my links that way. I did not know that changing my posts url name would wreck my links to it! It should be obvious, but it was not. I now know that changing urls is one major cause to broken links.

    That is why I wanted to know if there are any other things I should not do that could possibly ruin my links.

    I also wanted to know if there is a plugin out there that can fix your links for you. Because I really do not enjoy it after having to fix my links so many times from making mistakes. If not there should be one invented. I would pay good money for that. Links are horrible to deal with and I never want to see one again lol.

    Or if there is a way of making links permanent despite if you change urls or whatever you change?

    I just downloaded Broken Link Checker, and used it to fix each and every broken link I could see, actually I deleted most of them because I got tired of the process.

    Anyways hope this makes more sense.

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