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.
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Great wordpress plugin, used it today on one of my blogs. It found only 1, 404 page out of 1600 pages. I hope it’s working like supposed to or im already taking good care of my blog hehe.
Maybe it hasn’t finished checking all of your links yet. You can see the progress in Settings -> Link Checker (look for a line similar to “X links in work queue”).
Hi there, the plugin was declaring a link broken when it was not, this was the link: http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/
Any idea why, or what I might do differently? I had to disable the plugin temporarily.
The link does not show up as broken when I test it on my dev. blog. What does the link’s log show in your case? (you can see the log by clicking on “Details” in the link row).
Also, you can selectively mark links at not broken by clicking the “Not broken” link that shows up when you mouse over the link’s row in Tools -> Broken Links. You don’t need to completely disable the plugin if it gets a single false positive.
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After I try to check my WP blog for broken links, I get this message again: Error: The plugin’s database tables are not up to date! (Current version : 0, expected : 4)
This happens for second time. Do I need any update of the plugin or something?
I appreciate your help!
If you have the latest version of the plugin, try deactivating and reactivating it. Otherwise, try installing the development version.
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Very useful plugin!
Nothing looks more unprofessional than a website with “URL not found” error message.
I used before an online checker but from now on will use this plugin.
Keep up the good work!
Debbie
Thanks for this plugin. I had a few broken links and it found them straight away. Usually just spelling mistakes. Your plug helped my website to look much more professional with no broken links.
Thanks
Tanny
Good plugin, but I wish the options page had an option so I could make it only check links I’ve made in posts and pages, and not links such as comment author websites, because I don’t really care if those are broken or not.
That’s going to be added in a future version.
Thank you for the Good plugin.
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I’m with Nick (in comment 1112.) I get the same error about the database not being up to date. I’ve tried deactivating, reactivating, using the development version–same problem. I also don’t understand why your plugin is trying to delete database tables that don’t exist–specifically blc_linkdata.
I’ve used this plugin for some time now without any problems. Whatever you “fixed” in the last update is not working.
Trying to delete tables that don’t exist shouldn’t cause this problem. If it did, no-one would be able to install this plugin on a new blog.
Here’s something we could try : install this version of the plugin, go to Tools -> Broken Links, copy any and all error messages/output you get and send them to me.