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The Content tools find and fix problems across all your pages at once: outdated blocks, broken links, accessibility errors, and text you need to change everywhere. They're in Dirigible → Tools & Maintenance. Find & replace, Audit broken links and the Accessibility audit check all content unless you click Change next to Checks: all content and pick types. See Using Tools & Maintenance.

Update blocks

Re-saves your pages with the current block plugins. Run it after a block plugin update, or when the editor says a block has unexpected content. Only pages whose blocks change are saved, and they keep their last-modified date.

  1. Set any options on the Update blocks card.
  2. Click Run, and keep the browser tab open until it finishes.
  3. Click Stop to halt it early. The next run picks up where it left off.

Pages it can't update without losing text, images or links are skipped and listed on the card, so you can fix them in the editor.

Restore block settings from revisions

Copies lost block settings, such as images, colors and layout, back from an earlier revision of the same page. It runs once by itself in the background, so on most sites there's nothing left to do and the card doesn't appear. If you see it, some blocks are waiting for you to review:

  1. Click Preview restores and check what will change.
  2. Click Apply restores. Only Administrators can apply; Managers can preview.

Run it before Update blocks. It can't help once a page's revisions are gone.

Find & replace

Changes a word or phrase everywhere it appears in your pages and posts without breaking your blocks. It only covers page content, not menus, Customizer settings, or anything else.

  1. Enter what to find and what to replace it with.
  2. Click Preview to see every match.
  3. Click Apply replacements only when the preview looks right.

Each changed page gets a revision, which is how you undo a replace. Back up the site before a big change. Only Administrators see this tool.

Audit broken links

Checks the links in your content, including buttons and embeds, and lists any that are broken, with a link to edit each page. It also flags images, scripts and embeds still loaded over insecure http:// addresses, which browsers block on a secure site. It changes nothing.

  1. Set any options on the card.
  2. Click Run.
  3. Fix the links from the log.

Accessibility audit

Checks each page as a visitor sees it for accessibility errors that software can detect, measured against the WCAG guidelines. It's a good first pass, but it can't prove your site is ADA compliant, and a person still needs to review the site. It also flags images on your pages that have no alt text.

  1. Set any options on the card. Tick Also check at phone width to test a phone-sized screen too.
  2. Click Run.
  3. Use the edit links to fix the issues you choose.

No longer here

  • Sync alt tags and the Missing alt text report: alt text now fills in by itself. When an image on a page has no alt text of its own, the page shows the alt text from the media library. See How to write alt text for images.
  • Mixed-content scan: Audit broken links now flags insecure http:// files.
  • Redirect CSV generator: set up redirects in the Redirection plugin. See Set up a 301 redirect in WordPress.
  • Stale content report and Posts without featured image have been removed. To find old posts, sort the Posts list by date.