Broken Link Notifier

Hello,

Thank you for developing the Broken Link Notifier plugin — it’s a very useful tool that helps keep my website healthy and error-free.

However, I’ve noticed a recurring issue that I hope can be fixed in a future update.

When the plugin detects a broken link and I fix or remove it, the dashboard correctly shows the message:

“Link is good, removing from list…”

But after reloading the page or reopening the plugin dashboard, the same link and page reappear in the broken links list. It then re-verifies the link again and gives the same output —

“Link is good, removing from list…” —
yet the item never actually disappears from the list permanently.

🔍 Expected Behavior:

Once a link is fixed and verified as good, it should be permanently removed from the list and not appear again after refreshing or rescanning. 🧩 Environment:

• WordPress Version: 6.8.3
• PHP Version: 8.3

This plugin is genuinely helpful, and I’d really appreciate it if this bug could be addressed in an update to make the experience smoother and more reliable.

Thanks again for your great work on this plugin!

I installed this plugin today, and it seems that I’ve found at last, the solution for checking broken links on my website !

I found very interesting the idea of leveraging visitors for triggering broken links scans… indeed that doesn’t require a resource-intensive browsing, generating additional traffic, whereas the visitors already do it… and moreover, they prioritize themselves the pages most visited, which deserve more attention !

The only issue I’ve identified sofar, is that the plugin is generating many “false positives” on some “ads” URLS, starting with …googleads.g.doubleclick.net. I suppose it’s due to specific behavior on those urls, and actually I don’t care for those, since it’s all taken care of by Google themselves.

Therefore I think it would be great to have a “url filter” feature, allowing to discard any url containing a given pattern, like in my case ” googleads”.

Regards,

Pascal.

I looked at the various link-checking plugins and this one seemed to have the best philosophy on how to do it right, and it was very transparent and helpful in the descriptions.

So I installed it and it looked pretty good…but was disappointed to see that the plugin’s Settings page wasn’t working. There was no Save button and the my changes stayed at the defaults. Just to see if maybe I was doing something wrong, I jumped on PluginRX’s Discord and posted about it…and even though I was apparently the only user experiencing this problem, the developer immediately replied asking for more information! After confirming what I was seeing, he immediately (on a Sunday, even) released a new version that fixed the issue! It’s working great and I found a bunch of bad links on my site that I can now fix.

To top it all off, this plugin is free, so don’t hesitate to install it immediately. I’ll also be checking out the other plugins from PluginRx, most of which are also free.

The plugin is very useful for checking links. I have a website with multiple references to other websites and external links. The plugin just checks if the referenced URLs display any errors when accessed. Excellent for the purpose.

Fantastic plugin—clean interface and a real time-saver! The only thing I’d love to see added is an option to include links with an HTTP 200 status in the results list. Being able to view healthy links alongside broken ones would make it even easier to verify that everything is working perfectly. Keep up the excellent work!