Broken Link Checker for WordPress
Sometimes, links get broken. A page is deleted, a subdirectory forgotten, a site moved to a different domain. Most likely many of your blog posts contain links. It is almost inevitable that over time some of them will lead to a “404 Not Found” error page. Obviously you don’t want your readers to be annoyed by clicking a link that leads nowhere. You can check the links yourself but that might be quite a task if you have a lot of posts. You could use your webserver’s stats but that only works for local links.
So I’ve made a plugin for WordPress that will check your posts (and pages), looking for broken links, and let you know if any are found.
Download it now! (423 KB)
Features
- Detects links that don’t work and missing images.
- Periodically checks links in posts, pages, comments and the blogroll.
- New and modified entries are checked ASAP.
- Notifies you on the Dashboard if any problems are found.
- Lets you edit all instances of a specific link at once.
- Gives you a list of all links ever posted on your site, with the ability to search and filter it.
- Lets you apply custom CSS styles to broken and removed links.
- Highly configurable.
The broken links show up in the Tools -> Broken Links tab along. If any invalid URLs are found a notification will also show up on the Dashboard widget. To save screen real-estate, the widget can be configured to stay closed most of the time and automatically expand when broken links are detected.
Installation
Install “Broken Link Checker” just like any other WordPress plugin :
- Download the .zip file.
- Unzip.
- Upload the
broken-link-checkerfolder to you/wp-content/pluginsdirectory. - Activate the plugin in the Plugins tab.
Download
broken-link-checker.zip (423 Kb)
Requirements
- WordPress 3.0 or later
- MySQL 4.1 or later
The current version of this plugin is only compatible with WordPress 3.0 and up. If you have an older version of WP, try one of the older releases. Specifically, version 0.8.1 is the last one that’s still compatible with the WP 2.8 branch, and version 0.4.14 is the last one compatible with WP 2.1 – 2.6.x.
Well thank you very much,works like a charm!Is there any way to clear the detected redirection urls on the redirection page?Thanks in advance.
Not as such, but if you edit the link in question so that it points to the actual target URL (and not the redirect) then it won’t show up on that page anymore.
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Unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t seem to work for me. I have WP 2.7.1, the plugin installed and was activated without problems. However, it fails to find any missing images and broken links in my posts. Just as a test, I added a broken link to one of my posts and also deleted an image from the server. I re-scanned the site using the plugin and it still reported no problems. I know I have quite a few broken links and missing images in my blog. You plugin failed to detect any of them. Am I doing something wrong?
Does it detect any links at all? It should show a status message on the configuration page that says how many URLs/links were detected. You can also see all detected links in Tools -> Broken Links -> All.
If any links are detected, check the list for the one’s that are supposed to be broken and see what their detailed log says. You can see the log by clicking either the “link text” cell of the corresponding row or the “Details” action link.
Hint : the newest links will show up at the end of the “All” list.
could you add support for rapidshare and Megaupload links to your plugin? :/ thanks
That would be tricky. They probably use non-standard error pages. So probably not in the near future.
It does detect Megaupload links,i use a lot of links from Megaupload and they get detected as a 302 redirection
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