Having a blog can be great fun, but when it starts to get big it can get difficult to maintain, and you get broken links. It’s always good to try and stay on top of broken links, and with a little help, link maintenance can be done easily.
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Nothing is more annoying than clicking on a link, and finding out it doesn’t work any more. But sadly that often happens, because seriously, how often do you perform maintenance on your own site/blog? Probably closer to never than often.
You link to other resources where people can find out more, or perhaps the source where you got your information. But as the web evolve, pages disappear or move, and the link you pasted in your entry 3 years ago doesn’t work any more.
But manually going through a pile of posts looking for broken links is not something you have time to do, and certainly not something you want to do.
The plugin gives you a quick overview of broken links.
That is where the automated link checking comes in. There’s a plugin out there for WordPress called “Broken Link Checker“, and what it does is that it goes through your entries and checks the links and images in it. And if it comes across links that are broken, it gives you an overview of those broken links, and some actions you can take, like unlinking it, from the WordPress admin panel, without having to go into each post and removing that broken link. You just click on “unlink” from the overview, and the plugin does the work for you.
An easy way to see the broken links.
When was the last time you did maintenance on your site/blog?
Blog Tips — CommentLuv
When the user enters their website/blog address when they leave a comment on your entry, they can with this plugin optionally add a link back to their last entry (or another entry for that matter) on their website/blog with the comment. This gives the commenting users an option to highlight a certain entry on their site in the comment.
How it looks when you fill out your comment and check the commentluv checkbox.
That nifty feature is CommentLuv.
Showing the link in the actual comment.
Most users, or so I assume, like getting something back when they take the time to leave a comment. Which is, linkage back to your own site! By having the CommentLuv plugin installed, you can give the users the option of not only adding their general website address, but also allowing them to highlight an entry.