Comments on: Easily Fix Broken Links & Prevent Your Visitors Getting Lost

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:47:07 +0000

Thanks! That redirection plugin rocks. Sure beats modding htaccess all day long.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:39:32 +0000

Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:47:28 +0000

I think xlab’s Broken link plugin is also suitable in such cases, not sure whether all ppl agree or not but no harm in giving a try.
It simple mark all the dead links as highlighted.
http://xlab.co.in/index.php/2007/10/04/wordpress-broken-links-plugin/

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By: Michael from Pro Blog Design

Michael from Pro Blog Design — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:36:40 +0000

I’ve been hearing a lot about this plugin lately. I think I’m going to have to give in and try it out soon!

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By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:38:18 +0000

Excellent David, I don’t see why I should be the only person running 450 different plugins
Search is tricky, because the default (as you know) is rather dumb and seems to break the search string into separate letters almost - searching for ‘cat’ brings up every post with an ‘a’ in it.

The question to ask is how many people use the search function on your blog, apart from yourself trying to find an old post? You may be better off just inserting a Google Search box, as that will index comments anyway, but return more intelligent results?

Hmm, perhaps taking Darren Rowse’s advice I should turn this into a post…..

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:03:10 +0000

Off-topic, I’m trying to improve the search feature on my blog. I was using the ’search everything’ plugin, to incorporate text in comments, but in the end I’m thinking this might be a bad idea - because the search then pulls in more random posts.

Do you have any tips here buddy?

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:39:20 +0000

Excellent write-up, Chris.

You’ve prompted another download from me. I particularly like the feature that it logs all 404 errors.