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Broken internal links to retired WordPress sections (/discuss/, /games/, /people/, etc.) #20

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@HeyItsGilbert

Reported during the link/rendering review in #19. Tracked separately because the correct fix is a content-owner decision, not a mechanical one.

Problem

Reference-style Markdown links in ~10 historical articles point to old WordPress site sections that 404 on the current Hugo site. These surface as broken links on article pages and on paginated list/summary pages.

Old path Suggested target Example source file
/discuss/ https://forums.powershell.org? content/articles/2013-02-11-winter-scripting-camp-the-post-mortem.md
/newsletter/ (gone?) content/articles/2013-04-05-coming-tips-for-the-scripting-games.md
/games/ (Scripting Games retired) content/articles/2013-04-06-2013-scripting-games-mighty-panel-of-celebrity-judges.md
/people/, /members /authors/? content/articles/2013-04-15-changes-coming-to-powershell-org.md, content/articles/2018-10-24-powershell-org-site-status-update.md
/ebooks/, /videos/ (gone?) content/articles/2016-06-24-heres-what-youve-missed-at-powershell-org-and-whats-coming.md
/wp/newsletter (gone?) content/articles/2013-07-23-techsessions-free-powershell-webinars.md, content/articles/2013-08-15-state-of-the-org-website-games-summit-and-more.md

Notes

  • Some reference definitions also have mismatched link titles, e.g. [1]: /newsletter/ "PowerShell Script that Relaunches as Admin", suggesting the migration tool collapsed several distinct URLs onto one wrong target. Worth verifying each link's intended destination against the original post rather than just retargeting the path.

To find all occurrences

grep -rnE '\]:?\s*(/discuss/|/newsletter/|/games/|/people/|/members|/ebooks/|/videos/|/wp/)' content/

Acceptance

  • Each link either retargeted to a valid destination or removed/de-linked where no equivalent exists.
  • A clean Hugo build with no remaining internal links to these paths.

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