How Check and Fix Broken Links?

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Hi Kevin :wave:

Can you define a “broken link” in your context?

Is it:

  • A link in a user’s post?

  • An internal link?

  • An external link?

  • A link that leads to a resource that doesn’t exist anymore (404)?

  • A link that doesn’t lead to the same resource it led to before?

How would you know if a link is temporarily “broken” (for example, the target is temporarily down for whatever reason)? A link can be dead for a few minutes, hours, days or weeks and come back.
It can be removed, changed, updated, relevant or irrelevant anymore. How would you know what?

What is a broken link fix?

  • A link removal?

  • Replace the URL with another one?

  • How would you know how to replace a broken link with a relevant working one?

Anyway, you would need a custom script though: there is no such built-in feature. :slight_smile: