What is the best way to find broken urls within my EasyBlog posts?
By Sean Carney on Thursday, 10 November 2016
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I have imported over 500 K2 Items into EasyBlog and have now changed all the menus that I can change without breaking urls since all of those urls were menu items.

I have a couple of K2 Categories that have items in them which were generated with unique K2 urls that contain item IDs and a unique K2 path. Tomorrow I want to change the menu items for these K2 categories to start displaying the EasyBlog categories content. I have not yet deleted the K2 Items or Categories but will soon.

My question is what would be the best way to find all the broken urls within my newly imported EasyBlog posts. As soon as I change the menu items many links within the imported K2 items will break.

I am very grateful to be replacing my K2 content with EasyBlog. I am just hoping to find a good way to locate the broken urls within posts and to know which post and which link contain the broken urls.

Any suggestions?

Thank you, Sean Carney
Ideally you should use Google webmaster as it would report broken links / 404
Mark
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 12:06
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Thank you Mark,

I was heading down that path and just now requested them to crawl my site again.But, after tomorrow when I change K2 to EasyBlog is when lots of URLs will break. I may have to live with broken urls for a few days until Google indexes me again.

Thanks for the reply. I had hoped there might have been another option but will certainly use Google Webmaster tools.
Sean Carney
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 13:06
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Hello Sean,

It is fine with 404 pages, there's really nothing wrong with it. It's better to keep it as 404 as it will in fact improve your SEO rather than having duplicate urls with the same contents (from what I have read from most sites)
Mark
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 13:31
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:-) Thanks. I am assuming that EasyBlog will not create duplicate urls when I put a blog in multiple categories? My assumption is that the url will be generated by the primary category?
Sean Carney
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:18
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As long as there is a primary category, you are good to go because EasyBlog would always use that category alias By the way, I will lock this thread to avoid confusions but if you need any more help with this, please feel free to start a new ticket.
Mark
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:23
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