Biplav

Hello everyone, ( @sneader @blogodisea @wbmxcs @agathongroup @glashsix )

We had made a certain fix to the way the plugin is handling database in this update to make a foundation for the huge new shiny update coming up which improves the UI and the over all performance of the plugin.

For now the plugin might not be handling the update gracefully because there are huge amount of links on your database or because some of the queries are expensive which on limited resources can cause timeouts.

The reason for this is WPMU DEV just acquired the plugin and have been trying to enhance the plugin’s performance, particularly the DB update code is quite old and we’re trying our best to safely update it.

We will try to take care of this DB upgrade on the future updates but if you want a hot fix right now, you’ll have to uninstall the plugin from WP Admin panel ( which will delete the plugin’s custom tables & options ) then installing the new version should do the trick.

I will have to warn you that this will delete plugin options and will recheck the all the links again once the plugin is installed so it would be safe to keep backup of your DB if you want to rollback.

Unfortunately, I can’t recreate this issue in any of my test servers, so if someone could provide me with the server configuration details and if possible the number of links on the site I could try and recreate it and maybe release a quick fix too.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your feedbacks and reports.
Best regards,
Biplav.

Hello @glashsix

We’re sorry you’re facing that issue, we would love to help you more so could you turn on Debugging on your site and let us know what debug message you get?
Here’s how you can turn on debugging. https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/

Regards,
Biplav

Hello @dydyt ,

Although the plugin will check the links you can hide it form the listing with a CSS fix.
Just add the following code on your child theme or a custom plugin, this will hide all the 200ok links except the once that have redirects.

function blc_hide_css() {
	echo "
	<style type='text/css'>
	.blc-row.link-status-ok:not(.blc-redirect) {
	    display: none;
	}
	</style>
	";
}

add_action( 'admin_head', 'blc_hide_css' );

Hope this helps,
Regards.

Hello @pawell87 ,

Do these links show up on the plugin’s link page ( Settings -> Broken Links )?
If they don’t it means that the plugin is unable to render the links. I must warn you that currently the plugin is not able to handle the links generated by shortcodes/widgets/page-builder blocks but we are looking to add that feature on the future updates.

Could you share more details on how you’ve added the links on the page if my speculation is incorrect?

Regards.
Biplav

Hello @softfully ,
Hope you’re good today.

I think when you enable the Under Attack mode CloudFlare disables making a CURL request on the site. I don’t see anyway we can bypass that with the plugin, maybe there’s some whitelisting method on the hosting itself. Could you please let us know if your hosting support thinks otherwise?

Regards.
Biplav.

Hello @mom2thadd

We’re really sorry you’re facing the issue.
I tried to recreate the issue but unfortunately I couldn’t and it’s working all proper for me, we would really appreciate if you could let us know about the issue in a bit more detail.
It would also help if you could share the URL which is causing you these errors so the we can check those extensively as well.

You could also download the previous version of the plugin to see if the issues actually is being caused on the current version and not a conflict of some kind. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/broken-link-checker/advanced/

Regards,
Biplav.

@hansr00
Hello,

Looks like there’s something wrong with the database of the plugin if you delete the plugin from WP Dashboard it should delete all the plugin tables and then reinstall the plugin which should create new fresh tables. Please try that see if the issue is solved.

If not, please share with us the plugin debug log that you can access here.
https://prnt.sc/sek55r
For more extensive debug insights you can also enable the plugin’s own logging and send us the log file output as well. You can enable it from Settings->Link Checker->Advanced->Logging

Regards,
Biplav

Hello @mdes ,

If you’re looking to check private pages/posts on your site you can enable them here at Settings->link Checker -> Look for links in -> Post statuses

Regards,
Biplav

Hey @nims ,

That’s really strange.
I couldn’t recreate your issue even though I tested everything.
It’s good to know that it’s finally working for you but if you could give any server configuration or any way to recreate this I’d be happy to fix that.

Regards,
Biplav

Hello @werdpres
Yeah I would also recommend not turning it off.
I will task this up for future so that we can make the plugin compatible with it and minimize the redirection errors if any.
I cannot provide you with an ETA at the moment but I’ll discuss this with team and probably push a fix in the near future.

Regards,
Biplav.

Hello @nims ,
No that’s not how to plugin is supposed to check the links.
It’s strange that it’s behaiving that way. Can you give me one example of what the links look like with the whole HTML format.

Additionally, you can also try and recheck all paged from Settings->Link Checker->Advanced
https://prnt.sc/s8nnsw

You can also check if the link type you’re looking to check is on this setting if not enable it so that plugin can find it.
https://prnt.sc/s8o3iz

Best Regards,
Biplav

Hello @nims ,

New links are almost immediately, can you tell me where exactly these links are? Are they on the default posts/pages or any other post types or comments?

You could also configure where to search links on Settings->Link Checker -> Look for links in

Regards,
Biplav

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Biplav.

@sicksquirreltwo ,
Got it!
But I meant the links that are being checked might be down.
In any case looks like your issue is resolved.
Feel free to create a new thread if you need help with anything else.

Best regards,
Biplav.

Hi @werdpres ,
Everything looks okay to me on the logs but I was able to recreate this when I enabled safemode PHP or enabled open_basedir.

Could you please check if that’s the case for your website?
To check that you can use a phpinfo or use this plugin to quickly check if those are enabled.
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/php-info-wp/#description

PHPSafemode has been deprecated as of PHP 5.4.0 and the open_basedir is incompatible with following the redirect url while checking/curling a link.
So you must disable both if you want the redirect URL to show up on the redirect column.

Best regards,
Biplav.

Hello @nims ,
The plugin should show all the available links on the Tools -> Broken Links and click the All tab on the top. That should show all the links that are detected by the plugin.

https://prnt.sc/s6n1xx

Regards,
Biplav