Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer

I love the idea of the plugin, but it has a major technical flaw. When activated, the blog’s frontend tries to load scripts and/or resources from the wp-admin directory, and I think this is something a plugin shouldn’t do.

I protect wp-admin via htaccess as an additional measure against hackers, so my frontend threw some errors for ordinary users. I suggest fixing the plugin by moving frontend resources to wp-content. Otherwise a great project. Thank you Archive.org people for doing great work!

I had a very poor experience after installing the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer plugin.

Immediately after activation, my website became completely inaccessible. I could not open any page on the frontend, and the site showed errors or failed to load entirely. The only way to regain access was to log into the WordPress control panel and uninstall the plugin manually.

As long as this plugin remained active, the site was unusable. This behavior is extremely risky, especially for live or business websites, as it can cause sudden downtime without any clear warning or recovery option.

There was no proper error message, no fallback mechanism, and no indication of what caused the conflict. For a plugin that modifies links automatically, this level of instability is unacceptable.

Because of this experience, I would strongly advise other users to avoid installing this plugin on a live site or to test it only in a staging environment first. In its current state, it feels unreliable and potentially harmful.

Overall, this plugin caused more problems than it solved, and I cannot recommend it.

This has been working perfectly for me, and the only slight annoyance isn’t the plugin’s fault or even the Archive’s fault.

Some sites block the Archive from archiving them, so they appear to the link checker as broken links too.

Give a quick look through broken links on your Dashboard’s Posts section from time to time, as there might be a few you’ll need to add to the Link Exclusions under Advanced Settings.

The benefits far outweigh the effort it takes to monitor that yourself. 🙂

Marriage made in Heaven. Eigentlich nur verwunderlich, dass da nicht schon früher jemand draufgekommen ist.

This is a really nice first start for a link checker. It is a little slow, but no noticeable impact on performance like other tools.