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Oops, sorry, I meant "transitive," not transient.

Boone Gorges wrote in #note-2:

Thanks for the report. This does indeed seem like incorrect behavior.

As I look closer, I wonder if this is not a bug with broken-link-checker, but a quirk of your link setup. See eg https://khatchad.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/post.php?post=4166&action=edit - the entire content of the source page is in the content field. Since it's saved in WP, it perhaps makes sense that broken-link-checker would check the links therein.

Ah! You're right. I think that's a feature of the link library, i.e., to allow you to save the page content in case the link breaks in the future. But, this indeed seems to be not the intended behavior. I would like the link checked its "cached" content.

So the question is, why is the content of the source pages in that field?

See above.

Do you recall whether you entered it manually, or is it something that your Link Library plugin did for you?

I did it manually.

So, I think I would need an enhancement of the link checker to ignore certain fields in content types.

Actually, Link Library has its own checker.

Raffi Khatchadourian wrote in #note-6:

Actually, Link Library has its own checker.

But, it looks like you can't put that on a schedule.

I've disabled the link library (and the blogroll), and it seems to be OK. It would be nice to check the link library links through the schedule, but that doesn't seem to be possible right now.