Version 1.2.1

New

  • Added a “Not Checked Yet” filter for new, unchecked links to the links table.
  • Added an alert to the link info modal to indicate the date when the link will be rechecked.
  • Added an admin notice to inform users when they have not connected Broken Link Checker yet.

Fixed

  • Image URIs could cause catastrophical regex backtracking, freezing up the site.
  • Links with leading/trailing spaces in their URL or anchor text could not be edited or unlinked.
  • Broken links sometimes not highlighted for pages and CPTs.

Version 1.2.0

New

  • Broken Links Highlighter – The new highlighter marks broken links on the frontend of your website, making it easier for you to find and fix them.
  • AIOSEO Redirects Integration – BLC now integrates with AIOSEO Redirects so that you can easily redirect broken links to a working URL.

Updated

  • Added additional inline error alerts for better user experience.

Fixed

  • URLs for media files (with the exception of images) are no longer indexed.
  • Unified URL rows now correctly respect the included post types, included post status, excluded posts and excluded domain settings.
  • When deleting a post, the confirmation modal now correctly shows up again.

Version 1.1.2

Fixed

  • PHP error causing settings screen not to load when using default excluded domains value.

Version 1.1.1

New

  • You can now exclude specific domains from being checked through the settings.

Fixed

  • Limit Modified Date setting sometimes not working because WordPress Core was overriding it.
  • PHP notice when indexing links due to missing URL scheme.

Version 1.1.0

New

  • Unified Links – Duplicate links are now grouped together in the UI for an improved user experience.

Updated

  • Added support for PHP 8.2.
  • Added sorting for the URL column in the Broken Links report table.
  • Added a progress bar for the link status scan.
  • Added a confirmation modal to prevent user from trashing posts by mistake.
  • Improved performance of rechecking links in bulk.
  • Improved general performance of database queries.
  • “Broken Links” is now the default table filter after the link status scan has been completed.

Fixed

  • Various issues where updating, removing or force-rechecking certain links sometimes failed.
  • Connecting to licensing server sometimes hanged until the user refreshed the page.

Version 1.0.4

Updated

  • Significant performance improvements to the recurrent broken links scan.
  • Moved Post Title and URL values in URL info modal to their own rows to provide them with a bit more space.

Fixed

  • HTML anchors and URL params are now stripped from URLs before they are indexed and checked.
  • URLs with capitals are no longer lowercased before being checked.
  • Plugin conflicts due to Vue version mismatches.
  • Action Scheduler actions now automatically clean up their logs after they ran successfully.

Version 1.0.3

Fixed

  • Admin menu is no longer restricted to users with “edit_plugins” capability.

Version 1.0.2

Updated

  • New Link Status scan is fired off immediately after user connects to their account.

Version 1.0.1

Fixed

  • Link status scan ID sometimes not stored correctly.
  • Dismissed links are no longer periodically rechecked.
  • CSS issue when user has a high quota.

Version 1.0.0

New

  • Initial release.