Broken Link Checker for WordPress
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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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Hopefully I get referrals from friends who already use the Broken Link Checker plugin
It s a really wonderfull plugin! works excellent and find every broken link….and you get via mail a link and find broken links you wouldn t find without this plugin ,
i don t think somebody has time every day to check all the links on all his sites.
i wouldn t like to miss it on none of my sites!
Thanks alot
Susanne
Thanks for the plugin! Friends recommended to install!
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You’ve probably answered this already in over 1,500 responses but I hope you indulge me anyway. I keep getting tons of “500 – Internal Server Error” issues, even after I tell it to ignore them. The images are on my site and working properly, which is why I know this has to be an error somewhere. What can I do to turn that off, or what can I do to fix my site so that error will stop coming up?
Does the server have some kind of hotlink protection set up? I.e. something that’s supposed to prevent people from displaying your images on third-party sites? In some cases, that can cause problems for this plugin.
Nope. Just so you know I have 5 blogs all on the same server and this plugin on 3 blogs and only the one keeps giving me these server issues. It’s really odd.
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When I track down 500 Internal Server Errors, it’s often because PHP exceeds its memory_limit. I see this a lot on IX Web Hosting, where the default limit is too low. Try increasing your memory_limit in the php.ini file. If that doesn’t help, enable log_errors and error_log, and see if the PHP interpreter is failing with an error. Then contact your tech support! Good luck, Graham
Gramam: I don’t think that applies in this case since since the problem is with image links, and PHP is not usually involved when displaying (static) images.
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