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Changelog

This page mirrors the changelog in the plugin's readme.txt. The two files are kept in lock-step - any release that ships from the plugin must update both files in the same change, with identical wording. If you find a discrepancy between this page and the readme.txt entry for the same version, treat the readme.txt entry as authoritative and please report it.

1.4.0​

  • Added: a "Not checkable" result. Some large sites refuse automated visitors while serving people normally, and the audit now counts those separately instead of calling them broken. Nothing in that view is a problem to fix, so it never inflates your issue count.
  • Added: "Mark as checked". Open a not-checkable link, confirm it works, and record that in one click. It then counts as OK. The link is still tested on every scan, so a genuine failure is still reported, and the confirmation lasts six months before the audit asks you to look again.
  • Fixed: links that a consent or cookie banner has blocked are no longer reported as broken. A blocked embed leaves a placeholder in the page instead of its real address, and the audit now reads the real address and checks that.
  • Fixed: sign-in walls are no longer reported as broken. Instagram, Facebook and similar sites answer an automated request with a sign-in page whether the page exists or not, so the audit says it could not check rather than guessing.
  • Fixed: many working links reported as broken because the host refuses a lightweight existence check but serves the page normally. The audit now confirms with a full request before reporting anything as broken. This affected map scripts, share links, camera images and more.
  • Fixed: a host that asks us to slow down or reports itself temporarily unavailable is no longer recorded as broken. The audit waits, honours the delay the host asks for, and tries again before saying anything.
  • Fixed: a link that redirects only to add or remove a trailing slash is now a notice, not a warning. The old advice to update the link was pointless when the address is the same one.
  • Fixed: "View source" could not find references written in inline CSS, or in markup using single quotes, and wrongly said the reference was not in the page.
  • Fixed: pages whose address redirects elsewhere could never be rendered, which marked the whole scan as degraded, skipped change detection and triggered a repeat scan that failed the same way.
  • Fixed: exclusion rules of type URL were discarded on save unless you pressed Enter first, and the URL rule operators are now explained in the builder.
  • Improved: results wording throughout, so every verdict says what was actually observed and what, if anything, you should do about it.

1.3.0​

  • Added: image alt-text audit (Premium) - finds images with missing, empty or suspicious alternative text on the rendered page, with review tiers and per-image ignores on a new Images view; anything you ignore also shows on the Ignored view.
  • Added: archive pages in the By page view now have Re-scan and Exclude actions, and excluded archive pages show a readable name instead of an internal reference.
  • Fixed: excluding a page now removes its findings from the results immediately instead of waiting for the next scan.
  • Fixed: the images count in the By page view counted responsive-image variants separately; it now counts each image once.
  • Maintenance: confirmed compatible with WordPress 7.1.

1.2.2​

  • Fixed: scans now pause and resume automatically when the site is briefly unavailable, for example while WordPress runs a scheduled update (maintenance mode), instead of recording every page as a scan error.
  • Fixed: pages that cannot be checked during a scan now keep their previous results instead of losing them; the report says so, and a follow-up scan runs automatically.

1.2.1​

  • Improved: scans now run to completion on their own and finish much faster on standard shared hosting. Both scan phases - rendering your pages and checking the links found - keep themselves moving in the background instead of waiting for WP-Cron, which stays in place as a safety net.
  • Fixed: a scan could stall partway through on hosting where WP-Cron only runs when the site gets a visit. Stalled scans now recover automatically.

1.2.0​

  • Added: mixed content detection - images, embeds and page resources that load over plain HTTP on an HTTPS site are flagged as warnings, with a plain-English explanation on the finding.
  • Added: every broken external link now carries a "View archived copy" link to the Wayback Machine, so you can see what the dead page used to say or pick a replacement URL.

1.1.1​

  • Improved: the activity log gains an "Errors and warnings" level, and the log file is now named after the plugin for easier identification.
  • Fixed: uninstalling the plugin now removes all of its stored data and scheduled tasks.

1.0.4​

  • Initial public release.