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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    1. José says:
      May 7, 2011 at 20:30

      Hello friends, I have problem with the Broken Link Checker, I do not recognize any broken link and I have many, could be some plugin, plugins could have mentioned that they installed to work properly?

      Thanks and congratulations

    2. Køreskoler says:
      May 8, 2011 at 13:57

      This plugin can cause the white screen of death, and has done so on all the sites I have used it. Be carefull 🙂

    3. David Perednia says:
      May 8, 2011 at 19:44

      In my experience the “white screen of death” as you call it is caused by insufficient memory allocation in the php.ini setup file. Try allocating more memory for scripts and this problem should be resolved. Check the variable “memory_limit” in the php.ini file. Increase the limit to at least 128M .

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    5. Robert says:
      May 10, 2011 at 21:28

      Ich habe vor kurzem ein anderes Plugin dafür getestet. Werd mir das jetzt auch noch mal angucken. Danke.

    6. garage door repair houston says:
      May 11, 2011 at 04:23

      Hello friends, I have problem with the Broken Link Checker, I do not recognize any broken link and I have many, could be some plugin, plugins could have mentioned that they installed to work properly?

    7. Raffe Bergwall says:
      May 13, 2011 at 10:16

      Hi, how can I make Broken Links-plug not to check the links inside the native url? The server Tramsmail.se are located on, have drop outs and Broken links marks this drop outs as broken links.

      I want Broken Links to check every link on my site, but not *.tramsmail.se/*

    8. White Shadow says:
      May 13, 2011 at 20:25

      Try adding it to the exclusion list in Settings -> Link Checker -> Which Links To Check. It doesn’t support wildcards, but adding just “.tramsmail.se/” should do it.

    9. Raffe Bergwall says:
      May 13, 2011 at 20:32

      Thank you, but i does not work. Still getting some native broke-ups. Shall I try to reset the BL-db?

    10. White Shadow says:
      May 13, 2011 at 20:49

      If I remember correctly (haven’t looked at that part of the code for a while), it only takes effect the next time the link is checked, not immediately.

    11. Raffe Bergwall says:
      May 14, 2011 at 09:16

      🙂 It looks like it’s working now… Thanx

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      May 16, 2011 at 09:01

      Brilliant. Appreciate it.

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    17. Jim Goodrich says:
      May 25, 2011 at 00:43

      Is there a support forum for this plugin somewhere? I’m working with a website that is receiving e-mails saying there are broken links, yet the links on the e-mail work and the link checker in the dashboard says that none are broken.

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    20. seo agentur says:
      May 31, 2011 at 21:59

      For me the plug-in works just fine. Thank you.

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