Check for Broken Links
Check for Broken Links
Description
Check for Broken Links is a lightweight plugin that scans your site for broken links, dead links, and 404 errors.
The plugin analyzes posts, pages, custom post types, comments, and slider content to identify URLs that no longer work. Broken links are displayed in a simple results table where you can quickly locate the source page and fix the issue.
Keeping your website free of broken links improves SEO, user experience, and helps search engines properly crawl your content.
Features
• Scan posts and pages for broken links
• Detect dead links and 404 errors
• Scan custom post types
• Detect links inside slider content
• Scan comments and embedded links
• Easy results table showing where the broken link was found
• Filter results by type, status, and location
• Export results to CSV
• Lightweight and fast scanning
• Full control – no automatic changes to your content
License
This plugin is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.
For more details, see: GPLv3
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Faq
The plugin scans your website for broken URLs, dead links, and 404 errors across your content.
Go to the plugin page and click “Start Manual Scan”. The plugin will scan supported content and display the results in a table.
Yes. Removing broken links improves user experience and helps search engines crawl your website more efficiently.
The plugin scans posts, pages, custom content, comments, and slider content.
No. The plugin only detects broken links and shows where they appear. You can then manually update or remove them.
Yes. Check for Broken Links is free to use.
Reviews
Perfect. Simply works !
By 
After trying another couple of plugins for checking broken links, I tried this one. In 10 minutes did my first check and found and fixed my broken links. No false positives, no Pro for checking external links etc. Thanks for this ! 🙂
Perfect
By 
No membership, no cloud, no muss, no fuss. Just works. Thank you 🙂
Did it work?
By 
I tried a Manual Scan. I presume nothing was found because after a while the message "Scanning your site for dead links... Please hold on, this might take a few moments.
Please do not close this page." just disappears.
There was no message that it found of did not find broken links. So I have no idea if it worked or not.
Works well, but lacks support for CPT.
By 
This plugin does the job well for pages, posts and comments. However, it does not scan the entire site, as it does not include searching to dead links in Custom Post Types - so this is my only reason for my 4 stars as oppose to 5.
UPDATE: After that awesome response, which is refreshing as some others resist and give excuses, I'm updating my review to 5 stars, can't wait for the next update - you guys are awesome and deserve it...
Changelog
1.0.0
06 Feb 2025
* Initial release