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  • Does it find any of the links in those custom fields? You can check that like this: go to the “Broken Links” page, switch to the “All” view, click “Search” and search for “Link type: Custom fields”.

    Thread Starter Guust

    (@goldroo)

    No, it does not find any.

    Update: I’ve now tested GeoDirectory on a local site and looked at its database entries. Broken Link Checker can’t find “geodir_website” because it is not a custom field. At least, not in the sense that the term is generally used in WordPress (see: Custom Fields).

    WordPress stores custom fields in the wp_postmeta table. It also provides a well-defined way to retrieve and update those fields, so BLC can work with many different fields without having to be patched to support each individual plugin. On the other hand, GeoDirectory stores place details in a custom table called wpx_geodir_gd_place_detail. The only way to make BLC scan that table for links would be to write additional code to handle that specific format.

    Thread Starter Guust

    (@goldroo)

    GeoDirectory also creates extra tables like that for every custom post type an admin can add; they all use the geodir_website field. For example wpx_geodir_gd_event_detail etc.

    No idea what the code would be, so I leave it with you.

    Thanks

    Unfortunately, usually there simply isn’t enough time to implement support for every plugin that stores its links in some non-standard location.

    Thread Starter Guust

    (@goldroo)

    No problem at all. Thanks for looking into it anyway.

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