Automattic and the Internet Archive Launch Plugin to Combat Link Rot

Automattic has teamed up with the Internet Archive to launch a new plugin designed to fight one of the web’s oldest problems: link rot. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, now available on WordPress.org, automatically scans posts for external links and replaces dead ones with archived snapshots from the Wayback Machine. It also works preemptively — each time a post is updated…

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