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Monitoring, Ops & Incidents

Find broken external links in WordPress posts and email report via Gmail

Runs on demand to read recent published WordPress posts, checks each external link with a HEAD request, and builds a report of broken links, optionally emailed through Gmail.

What it does

## Find broken external links in WordPress posts Reads your latest published posts, collects the external links inside them, checks each link with a lightweight HEAD request, and builds a report of broken links and links that need a manual look. The report can be emailed with Gmail. Email is OFF by default. Set emailReport to true in the Config node to send it.

The steps

  1. Run manually
  2. Every Monday 9am
  3. Config
  4. Get published posts
  5. Extract external links
  6. Check link
  7. Classify results
  8. Build report
  9. Send report email?
  10. Email report with Gmail
  11. Report (not emailed)

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