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This Is High On My List Of Wanted Applications - Hint Hint to plugin authors

As Daily Blog Tips wrote, and their commentators seemed to agree, checking your links before you post is an essential bug catcher in blogging.  How often have you made an annoying typo while linking, or mis-pasted a link and never even noticed.  However this is easily said than done.    There is no good method of checking links on even a post level.  When you create a link in the Wordpress editor, you can’t follow it.  Pretty much all you are reduced to is publishing your post, and then checking the links and editing them.  There must be a better way.

Two great features of wordpress - or ideas for plugins would be

1) Follow Links as you Post - Microsoft word lets you Cntrl-click on links in order to follow them in a document.  If Wordpress could do similar it would make checking for broken links an order to magnitude easier.  No longer would you have to wait to publish to double check.  You can fix your mistakes on the fly.

2) Site wide link checker - Webpages change all the time.  Sometimes a site you have linked too gets taken down.  A site wide link checker, which periodically followed all the links in your blog and reports 404 errors, or any other errors it finds, would be a incredibly useful tool.  If you have old posts with broken links, you can quickly go back and edit them to either point somewhere else, or simply not display a link.  This will save your users from the frustration of clicking and having the page not appear.

This may seem to be ambitious plugins, however I think they would be very useful.  I sure don’t have the PHP nor Wordpress skills to do them myself.  Any developers want to tackle the challenge?

 What do you think?  Would you use these features?  Are they worth doing?