Plugin updates crash the site database
Plugin updates corrupt the site database, leaving tables frozen or the whole site crashing.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 6 August 2026 · last reported 2 September 2026
What's going wrong
Several site owners report that installing a recent update to this link checker corrupted database tables or crashed the database, freezing their sites. One owner feared losing a decade of work because touching the database froze everything. Another said the update took several websites down and that repeated upgrade attempts made things worse, while the developer stayed silent. Affected owners run small blog and business sites that depend on automatic updates. The gap is a safe update path with staged testing, database backups before each update, and rollback for any site that breaks.
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Products affected
Broken Link Checker.
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Who has this problem
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