What Is WP Broken Link Status Checker?
It is a WordPress broken link checker tool that authenticates the HTTP status response codes of all your content links and images.
It works by crawling your content, removing links and images, observing for broken links, redirections, no follow links, etc. It scans websites with multiple checks and configures their own results.
Broken Link Checker monitors and tests all internal links & external links on your site looking for broken links. It helps you fix bad links to improve SEO and user experience.
Features
Manage the quality of your site is important when you are running a website. WP Broken Link Status Checker is a plugin which allows you to detect broken links on your site.
To begin with, it will scan through all the content on your website and the time taken to do that will depend on the volume of your site. However, it allows you to see the results on the spot where it has been through. The result page can be access to by clicking the scan name or the Show results link from the row. This can help to filter the links. However, there is something you should keep in mind. The plugin will only check the content of your posts, not the entire HTML page. This can only work properly when you deactivate the Firewall on Wordfence, so don’t forget to take it down temporarily when the plugin is running. You should only run one scan per blog simultaneously to avoid performance issues.
Pro version allows you to extend the filters and the ability to edit the content links from the search result without going to the WP editor. This comes with a useful instruction so you can check it out anytime.
- Monitors external links and internal links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
- Detects links that don’t work, missing images and redirects.
- Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
- Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
- Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
- You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
- Links can be edited directly from the plugin’s page, without manually updating each post.
- Highly configurable.
Cons
- Does not check the complete HTML Page, rather just extracts the links and images.
- Need to disable the Firewall before using this Plugin.
- Need to disable the WP Secure plugin to run a complete scan appropriately.
