Pre-purchase questions about the demo version

  • Hi WP Broken Link Checker!

    Couple of questions about the demo:

    – Does it just scan 1 thread? When I ran it, it seemed to check one thread just fine, then kept running and running with no more results.
    – Does it slow down my site? Should I plan to run scans (either demo scans or full scans) during low-traffic times?
    – What exactly are the differences between the demo and the full version? I looked in the user guide but didn’t find that.

    Thanks for your help!!

    Charlotte

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  • Plugin Author SeedPlugins

    (@seedplugins)

    Hi cjbatson, thanks for your message,

    – It scan 1 thread by default, but no results is not an expected behaviour. What is your website address? To take a quick look and check if almost externally everything is Ok.

    – We have tried to put the focus on performance, the idea is not to prioritize the crawler activity ahead of real visits. With that in mind this plugin does not perform massives pre-process database queries or updates, and does not execute large script processes to avoid busy serving requests. And yes, you can execute an scan during low-traffic times, but it is not necessary.

    – Pro version provides extended search filters and the possibility to edit the post content links directly from the search results without using the WP editor, including bulk edit mode for most cases.

    You can get more info here:

    https://seedplugins.com/wp-link-status/

    Kind regards,
    Pau

    Thread Starter CJBatson

    (@cjbatson)

    Hi Pau,

    Thanks for the reply! The website is https://charlottesogn.com – I guess I misspoke a little bit. I got the result of 3 links that were ok, then the plugin continued running and running for more than 15 minutes after that with nothing more. At that point I stopped the scan.

    Thanks for your assistance and please let me know if you need more information!

    Charlotte

    Plugin Author SeedPlugins

    (@seedplugins)

    Hi Charlotte, I have checked your site but externally nothing seems wrong.

    Do you have any security or firewall plugin active? This is the main reason why an scan fail.

    Kind regards,
    Pau

    Thread Starter CJBatson

    (@cjbatson)

    hi Pau,

    Thanks for the reply!! No, my host (GoDaddy) does some scans to check for malware, etc. but there are no security plugins.

    Maybe it is running fine and I am not aware of what success results looks like. I do have a screenshot of the scan results report that I can send you if you can provide me an email address or a way to send it to you on this message board, if you think that would help!

    Thanks again so much, and have a great day,

    Charlotte

    Plugin Author SeedPlugins

    (@seedplugins)

    Hi Charlotte, that can explain the issue, because we had problems with GoDaddy due restrictions for sites with HTTPS enabled and the cURL module (an internal server module used to make HTTP requests to check the links) for some hosting configurations. It seems that GoDaddy applies limits for this module via proxy or similar.

    Sorry, it is a hosting-level problem and I think I can’t help from this point.

    Best regards,
    Pau

    Thread Starter CJBatson

    (@cjbatson)

    Hi Pau,

    Thanks for the info – sorry to hear that you think this is a dead end. I’m going to discuss this with GoDaddy and see if there is a way around it. I have an issue with a few broken links that I haven’t been able to find!! This is a significant user issue for me, so I hope to be back in touch to get more details.

    Thank you again, and have a great day,

    Charlotte

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