Biplav

@sicksquirreltwo ,
You could set the check interval on the settings for existing links on Settings -> Link checker -> General -> Check each link
https://prnt.sc/s6mtol

Also you can also disable the settings Settings -> Link checker -> Advanced -> Link monitor Then you can disable the Run continuously while the Dashboard is open
https://prnt.sc/s6mviz

Changing these settings should decrease the frequency of the checks.

Regards,
Biplav.

No problem.
Please feel free to let us know if you run into any other issues with the plugin we’ll be more than happy to help you out again.

Best regards,
Biplav

Hey @sicksquirreltwo ,
Seems like there’s not much wrong with the plugin as the logs seem to be fine.
It is highly possible that when the plugin crawls this sites they maybe unavailable because the plugin just records what the sites return. I say this because I’ve tried to recreate this as well but I couldn’t do it.
It could be that the sites were temporarily down or when the plugin was crawling.

Regards,
Biplav

Hello @seventhqueen
It’s true that Snoopy has been long deprecated but we only recently started to handle updates for the plugin so we’re working on updating that and it’ll probably be fixed on the new updates.
For your debugging request, you see the text (Using Snoopy) which means snoopy class is being used which is long deprecated and it can’t check links anymore so the errors occur on your site but Snoopy check was always secondary and primarily we use CURL to check links.

It could be that your server has CURL disabled or removed.
Could you please check with your hosting provider if it’s disabled or not installed in your server or not accessible to your site?

Regards,
Biplav.

Hi @werdpres ,
Can you please share the logs with us? You can enable logging on Settings->Link Checker -> Advanced -> logging.

Also, this can also be an issue with your server because the links are working fine on my test servers. This could also be a conflict with the other plugins/themes you’re using. To see if that’s the case you can enable WordPress Debugging.
Here’s how you can do that.

Debugging in WordPress

Regards,
Biplav

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

Hello @maciejmackowiak
I had a look at this and you’re right there are a lot of unnecessary query running on upgrade and it’s running on the front pages as well.

I’ve added it for development and this will possibly be fixed on the upcoming release.
Thanks for taking your time to report the issue and help us make the plugin better.

Regards,
Biplav

Hello @sicksquirreltwo ,
Could you share the links with us which are marked as 503?
If not could you let me know if those links are marked as OKAY once you recheck them?

Regards,
Biplav

Hey @werdpres
I tested the links you mentioned and it seems to show up fine on the Redirect links column as well as on the dropdown of the link list.
https://prnt.sc/rwwvtd

I would suggest you to check the link again with the “Recheck” link option on the link list row. Please let us know if that works for you.

Regards.
Biplav

Hello @imoracle

Thank you for taking your time to rate the plugin.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, we the WPMU Dev team have just recently started maintaining the plugin and we’re trying to improve every aspect of it.

For the issue you’re facing you can try and minimize the load time with various settings, that can be found on the Advanced tab of the plugin settings ( wp-admin -> Settings -> Link Checker -> Advanced ).
There you can allocate the server resource, load limit & max execution time which can reduce your sever load drastically.
Other than that you can disabled the Run continuously while the Dashboard is open settings and only enable hourly checks.
If you face any other issues you can open a support ticket here and we’ll be more than happy to look into it.

Regards,
Biplav.

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

@aksoysanat it’s true that the plugin perviously had an expired youtube api key but now it has an option to add your own key which will definitely fix the errors you were facing with the YT API in the previous versions.

Hope you find it helpful.

Best regards,
Biplav.

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

Hi @werdpres
I hope you’re doing well today.
The redirect URLs won’t show up in the table row rather if you click on the row, it will show a dropdown where it can be seen as the Final URL like on the screenshot here.
https://prnt.sc/rtv6ak

The fix redirect button has to be enabled on the settings page like Adam mentioned on the other thread.
https://prnt.sc/rtv84d

Regards.
Biplav

Hello @guenni
Thank you for helping us improve the plugin and taking your time to write the review.

About your suggestion, that indeed is a pretty handy feature. We would definitely want to reduce those false alarms and any inconvenience caused by it.

Rechecking the link before deleting is a fantastic idea and we might even add something a little more just the reduce the false alarm that causes the whole issue in the first place.

For now I’ll put it on our development backlog and try and fit it into the upcoming releases, I might not be able to provide you with an ETA right now but we’ll try and push this as soon as possible.

Thank you again,
Biplav

Hello @7thcircle ,
You are right about the update overriding your custom changes so on this update we’ve provided a filter with which you can use your own API key for Youtube. Here’s how you can implement it.

You can add this code on a child theme’s function.php or on a custom plugin, that way your API key won’t be overridden on the updates.

add_filter( 'blc_youtube_api_key', function( $api_key ) {
	$api_key = 'enter_your_api_key_here';
	return $api_key;
} );

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Biplav.

Hello @duddy2007 ,

On this update we’ve provided a filter with which you can use your own API key for Youtube. Here’s how you can implement it.

You can add this code on a child theme’s function.php or on a custom plugin that way your API key won’t be overridden on the updates.

add_filter( 'blc_youtube_api_key', function( $api_key ) {
	$api_key = 'enter_your_api_key_here';
	return $api_key;
} );

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Biplav.

Hi @duddy2007 @dstamos
We apologize for the inconvenience, we are working to fix this asap ( possibly on the next update ).
The problem is there because the API key has expired and we’re adding a new one ( with out any API restrictions ) so you don’t have to use your own API key after the update. However, it would be a good idea to provide an interface for using personal API key with which users could apply usage restrictions and other settings via google’s Youtube API Settings. So, I’ll add this on our todo list and have a discussion with the team and possibly decide and ETA on this.

Regards.