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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This looks like a really useful plugin. Something that would be cool if you could consider it for future updates would be to make a similar function to the SEO Smart Links plugin (like how you can assign keyword phrases found in page text to automatically hyperlink to certain pages). If you could make it possible for the admin to automatically assign 301 redirects to category landing pages (to direct page rank within the same category), that could be very useful (and have it report on when it has taken this action). We will be able to use the plugin on one of our blogs for sure.
Cheers,
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I love this plugin, and I recommend it to all my visitors, but I notice I’m getting quite a lot of spurious broken link detection email messages lately. Would it be possible to add an option to check each link several times and wait 24hours before declaring them broken?
Cheers,
Graham
I’m running the latest wordpress installation (just updated to the latest earlier today) and Broken Link Checker displays no posts. It lists the number of posts with broken links but doesn’t show them so I can delete/edit the broken links.
Broken Link Checker didn’t work before my wordpress update… I kept the plugin in case something changed.
I’d love to use Broken Link Checker to clean up my old posts (SEO cleaning house) but it doesn’t work for me.
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