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 :
- Download the .zip file (see below).
- Unzip.
- Upload the
broken-link-checkerfolder to you/wp-content/pluginsdirectory. - Activate the plugin in the Plugins tab.
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I love this plugin and I’ve been using it for a while. However, I’ve been getting some false positives, in particular from IMDb. I review movies for fun and always link to IMDb, both movie titles and actors. I have over 17 false positives right now. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
I’ll be releasing a new version of the plugin relatively soon (hopefully next week, with a public beta coming ~tomorrow). I suggest waiting for that and, if you still have the same problem with the new version, get back to me and I’ll see what I can do.
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Hi,
i talked to you about the 302-redirection problem a while back,how it worked on my previous site but not on the new site,remember?
Well,my new site opens in about a week or two,and its packed with links i need to check daily.When its finished i have over 4000 links.
I tried numerous other link-ckeck apps but non with satisfactory results.So im turning to you for help again!But this time i want to ask you if you could help me for a fee,or rather cash-money(although i`m not rich).Thanks in advance.
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Somewhat hazily. You wanted redirect detection, yes? Try the new beta. It has that feature implemented in a more reliable manner than in any of the previously suggested hacks.
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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