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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It see that the post has crayon (Crayon Syntax Highlighter) somtimes show in broken link.
Suggestion, add an option to change links that are redirected to the redirected URL.
Got a site with about 30 redirected internal links, basically changed from the dated archive permalink to a better SEO version and added a bunch of 301 redirects. Would be useful to have a easy way to update the links.
SEO value of this is 301 redirects costs a little PR, by changing the URLs more link benefit is passed.
David
You can already do that: use the “Fix redirects” option from the “Bulk Actions” drop-down.
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I went through one of my websites recently and found several broken links. Once they were repaired, I was able to see an improvement in rankings. I am not sure if it was because of search engine trust or if it was because of improved link flow.
Have Traditional Chinese.
Good Job
Really an awesome tools. I have a kind of blog which has hundreds of links to external sites. This tool monitors all of them and giving me opportunity to fix errors to make my blog up-to-date. Thanks a million for such a nice plugin.