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Link Finder

by Bob Vandevliet

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Description

No more broken links. Speed up your website by avoiding redirects and improve your search engine ranking. Link Finder is a very simple and lightweight plugin to easily find and repair broken links throughout your website.

When you navigate to `Tools >> Link Finder` in the admin panel, Link Finder will parse the links in the content of all your posts and pages. Depending on the size of your website and the amount of links, this could take a moment. It extracts the links it finds in all html `href` and `src` attributes and attempts to follow them. All redirected links and broken links will be listed, for example those that result in a 404 Page Not Found error. From within this list, you can easily make corrections and then repair all optimizable and broken links in one simple click.

To not affect the speed of your website, Link Finder does not perform active monitoring. It also does not store any additional data to the database. Use it as a tool to manually check for broken links regularly or after changing permalinks or moving your website to another domain.

If you would like to contribute, please visit the repo at https://github.com/bvandevliet/WordPress.LinkFinder and open an issue or pull request.

Manually via FTP

  1. Download the plugin.
  2. Unpack the .zip
  3. Upload the linkfinder folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  4. Activate the plugin from within your WP Admin.

Manually via WP Admin

  1. Download the plugin.
  2. Goto Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
  3. Upload the .zip
  4. Activate the plugin.

Automatic via WP Admin

  1. Goto Plugins > Add New.
  2. Search for linkfinder.
  3. Find the plugin and click Install Now.
  4. Activate the plugin.

Works as expected!

By Tracedef (tracedef) on November 10, 2025

Live link checking without the database bloat or resource overhead. Great alternative to monstrosities like WMPU Dev link checker.

The "New Hyperlink" Keeps Disappearing

By NM (nitiarts) on February 1, 2024

The "New Hyperlink" Keeps Disappearing. I keep to have to refresh the page constantly in order to get the boxes "new hyperlink". They keep disappearing on me.

Wow fantastic!

By revixi5 on January 29, 2024

Still work perfectly in WordPress 6.4.2. It's fast and clean. Hope it will be kept update.

That is how you do it.

By con (conschneider) on May 26, 2023

This is the link checker you want. Look no further.

Congratulations

By gruezijp on March 12, 2023

Simple, uncomplicated, staightforward plugin — easy to use, most efficient

Easy to use and works

By thefrans on December 11, 2022

Wanted to find my broken links and this plugin works well! Better than Broken Link Checker plugin which doesn't work for me.

Good plugin

By manjas on January 16, 2022

A comprehensive overview of broken links, works very intuitive. Good support from the developer.

Simple and functional

By serdasteclas on October 18, 2021

The simplest working solution to find broken links! I tried a few plugins and this is the first that actually solved my problem.

Light weight and excellent alternative for heavy broken link checker plugin

By Vivek Narayanankutty Nair (vismithams) on October 13, 2021

Light weight broken link finder plugin and excellent alternative for heavy broken link checker plugin

2022.01.05

  • Added feature to sort the table.

2021.10.29

  • Replaced some Javascript functions to also fully support Internet Explorer (>=5.5).

2021.10.14

  • Added filter for errors, warnings and other to improve usability on large websites.

2021.10.12

  • Javascript bugfixes and improved error handling.
  • Style update.

2021.09.17

  • Ran codebase through wpcs with phpcs.

2020.12.22

  • Updated Javascript to ES6 standards.

2020.06.15

  • Added the website’s home url as referer to the request headers.

2020.06.11

  • First introduction.
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