This week, the platform announced a new tool designed to expand on that mission by helping the world’s WordPress users keep their articles in peak digital health. Such “digital decay” occurs across a broad diversity of web pages, from news and government sites to Wikipedia pages to tweets. Automattic says that its new plug-in works by scanning your WordPress posts for outbound links, then cross-referencing the Wayback Machine for archived versions of those links. Should a linked web page go offline, the new feature will then redirect readers to the archived versions, so that there is no drop in service. The tool is designed to keep a site’s visitors reading the best available version of a web page.