Users who have the Broken Link Checker plugin on their wordpress blog will notice that it picks up on internal links to pages that are for registered (non guest) users. This is because the Broken Link Checker acts as a guest when it is checking the publicly viewable side of your blog.
Broken Link Checker has a section that allows you to tell it which links you do not want included when it looks for broken links. Because it acts as a guest, it is unable to check pages, posts or categories.
How can I stop my pages with restricted access from showing as a broken link?
1) Logon to your blog
2) Click on settings (in wp 2.5 it is on the right, next to plugins)
3) Click on Link Checker
4) Enter the pages that are not publicly viewable into the “Exclusion List”. You only need to enter words such as “14” if that was one of the pages that was not publicly available. You can get the page and post numbers by clicking on manage and then selecting page or post. If you hover the mouse over the name of the page or post it will show a link like this “http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=54”. The number for this post is 54. Simply gather together the protected page and post numbers and enter them into the exclude list separated by commas.
By doing this, it should stop your protected pages from displaying as broken links, however this also stops the broken link checker from being able to check for broken links within those pages. This would be the same if you were using a standard installation of wordpress and had some pages marked as private.
July 4, 2008 By admin No comments yet Site News
Users who have the Broken Link Checker plugin on their wordpress blog will notice that it picks up on internal links to pages that are for registered (non guest) users. This is because the Broken Link Checker acts as a guest when it is checking the publicly viewable side of your blog.
Broken Link Checker has a section that allows you to tell it which links you do not want included when it looks for broken links. Because it acts as a guest, it is unable to check pages, posts or categories.
How can I stop my pages with restricted access from showing as a broken link?
1) Logon to your blog
2) Click on settings (in wp 2.5 it is on the right, next to plugins)
3) Click on Link Checker
4) Enter the pages that are not publicly viewable into the “Exclusion List”. You only need to enter words such as “14” if that was one of the pages that was not publicly available. You can get the page and post numbers by clicking on manage and then selecting page or post. If you hover the mouse over the name of the page or post it will show a link like this “http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=54”. The number for this post is 54. Simply gather together the protected page and post numbers and enter them into the exclude list separated by commas.
By doing this, it should stop your protected pages from displaying as broken links, however this also stops the broken link checker from being able to check for broken links within those pages. This would be the same if you were using a standard installation of wordpress and had some pages marked as private.