US EditionThis New WordPress Plugin Uses the Wayback Machine to Help You See Fewer Dead Links
Link Fixer addresses link rot by redirecting nearly 40% of broken decade-old links to archived pages, ensuring content reliability and reducing dead ends on WordPress sites.
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An open-source WordPress plugin analyzes broken links, generates automatic snapshots, and integrates redirection to archived copies on the Wayback Machine to ensure content persistence. The new open-source tool automatically repairs broken links by redirecting them to archived copies, helping WordPress combat web page disappearance.
Automattic and the Internet Archive Team Up To Fight Link Rot
Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, which la...
Everyone knows the problem online. You click on a link and end up with a dead end because the page has moved or the domain has been abandoned. This is called link decay, link collapse – or simply "link rot". Automattic has now partnered with the Internet Archive to address this issue... Read the article: WordPress: Plugin from Automattic and Internet Archive repairs broken links
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