Broken Link Checker for WordPress

Notice: This plugin has been transferred to ManageWP. I am no longer working on it. Please direct any feedback to the new developer. See the plugin homepage for more information.

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.

Features

  • Detects links that don’t work, missing images, deleted YouTube videos and other problems.
  • Periodically checks links in posts, pages, comments, custom fields 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.

Download

broken-link-checker.zip (412 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.

    Installation

    Install “Broken Link Checker” just like any other WordPress plugin :

    1. Download the .zip file (see below).
    2. Unzip.
    3. Upload the broken-link-checker folder to you /wp-content/plugins directory.
    4. Activate the plugin in the Plugins tab.
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    4. Andrew Selkirk says:
      May 10, 2016 at 00:15

      This is absolutely disastrous.

      It has gone through my whole site – over 1000 links – and crossed them all out even though they all work.

      What has gone wrong? How can I reverse this?

      Andrew Selkirk

    5. Jānis Elsts says:
      May 10, 2016 at 00:18

      Sorry, take it to the current developer. I’m no longer working on this plugin.

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    12. Steve L says:
      August 15, 2016 at 18:11

      The plugin reports a broken link, but the broken link page (wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links) ironically shows a 404 error. How can this be fixed?

    13. Jānis Elsts says:
      August 15, 2016 at 22:40

      Sorry, I can’t answer that. Try asking the developer who’s currently responsible for the plugin. Their info should be on the plugin page on wordpress.org.

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    17. Marc says:
      October 13, 2016 at 04:30

      BLC is a great plugin! One feature that would be very helpful is to show the date published next to the post title when showing broken links…

      Another feature is an automatic deletion of posts that match certain criteria, such as link starts with ……… , and link is broken, post in category X, post published between date 1 and date 2…….

    18. Restaurant Alexander says:
      October 13, 2016 at 16:36

      Hi,

      Thank you for the great plugin!

      I noted that the plugin detects even working url as broken and marked as strikethrough.

      What do I do wrong?
      Greetings,
      Alexander

    19. Condei Valentin says:
      October 16, 2016 at 22:17

      Great plugin !!! Grazie !!!

    20. Todoandroid says:
      October 19, 2016 at 14:19

      Magnifico plugin del que ya se han derivado muchos otros. Perfecto para estar al tanto de lo que se ha roto en tu blog, en forma de enlaces.

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