Bug #20675
open
Broken Link Checker no longer sending email notifications
Added by Raffi Khatchadourian 7 months ago.
Updated 24 days ago.
Description
I haven't seen any emails from the Broken Link Checker since early 2023. Today, I checked out the page, and there are two new broken links. Yet, I don't have any emails about them.
Side note: I looked at an old email from Broken Link Checker. The link to view the broken links no longer works. The link is https://khatchad.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links. I get, "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page," when I go there.
Hi Raymond,
Sorry for the delay:
Raymond Hoh wrote in #note-1:>
It looks like someone already reported this issue here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-notification-action-skipped-for-multisite-subsites/
Good find!
The developers say they will address this in a future release. If this isn't important, can it wait until then?
Yes. I don't think it's been working for quite a while.
Side note: I looked at an old email from Broken Link Checker. The link to view the broken links no longer works. The link is https://khatchad.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links. I get, "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page," when I go there.
The link to view broken links should be: https://khatchad.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/admin.php?page=blc_local&filter_id=broken
That's great, but the link in the email is still incorrect. Should we file a bug on the plug-in? AFAIK, it was correct at some point. Thanks!
Looking through the codebase, it appears that broken-link-checker changed its internal link structure around version 2.2.x. Specifically, the callback responsible for the view-broken-links routing was disabled around that version. See https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/trunk/app/options/settings/class-controller.php?rev=2927805&annotate=blame&marks=53#L45. We updated from 2.1.0 to 2.2.2 on Sep 25, 2023. So it's possible that your old notification email came before that date, but the link no longer functioned properly after that date. If so, this is not great backward compatibility on behalf of the plugin, but at the same time it's only relevant for emails that are quite old, and so may not be worth the trouble of a fix.
Ah, I see. So, in the new email, it may be a different link.
- Status changed from New to Rejected
Cool, let's close this for the time being and circle back if you continue to see issues.
- Status changed from Rejected to Hold
OK, I'll put this back on our watch list. I'm afraid we're currently swamped with other concerns, so it will be some time before we're able to devote resources to it.
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