• Resolved Bruno Martinez

    (@brmartinez)


    Hello, I’ve recently installed your plugin, but noticed it is categorizing some of my link as broken by mistake.

    For example, the links shown in this screenshot (https://nimb.ws/TObNKU) are all working.

    Can you help understanding why this error happens and how to fix this?

    Thank you

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  • Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    Hi @brmartinez

    I hope you’re well today!

    Some services do not really allow such link checking. A check is in fact an attempt to fetch the URL (it’s HTTP response headers, to be specific) and if they detect that it’s an “automated” check – like a “bot” or “crawler” that’s not authorized on their end – they just reject/bounce such requests.

    This is particularly true with some main social platforms (as those on your screenshot) and also some services behind e.g. CloudFlare.

    There’s no really way around that other that:

    – for now, marking such links as valide, to ignore them
    – over time adding various APIs support to our plugin

    As for that “APIs” support part: we are working on some improvements for future, some APIs are already there (e.g. for YouTube) and we plan to add some additional gradually but this might take some time and still it may not be possible to provide support for all possible services that way, I’m afraid.

    The “closest ones” would be support for Amazon MarketPlace links and to override CloudFlare “broken links” but I don’t have an ETA on this. I can confirm that our developers are working on it, though.

    Kind regards,
    Adam

    Thread Starter Bruno Martinez

    (@brmartinez)

    Can I, at least, make sure readers can’t see the strikethrough on the link?

    Plugin Support Patrick – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport12)

    Hi @brmartinez

    I hope you are doing well.

    You can disable the custom CSS from the Broken Link Checker interface: https://monosnap.com/file/xZFS6AgiLVUMUFPxsIfzWWmzja7ME8

    Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

    Plugin Support Patrick – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport12)

    Hi @brmartinez

    I hope you are doing well and safe!

    We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll mark this thread as resolved.

    Feel free to let us know if you have any additional question or problem.

    Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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