Description
Broken Link Scanner helps you maintain a healthy website by automatically detecting broken links, missing images, and HTTP errors across your entire site. With comprehensive scanning capabilities and detailed reporting, you can identify and fix issues that affect your website’s performance, SEO, and user experience.
Key Features
- Complete Website Scanning: Scans all posts, pages, and content to find broken links
- Detailed Reports: Get comprehensive reports with anchor text, broken link URLs, and HTTP status codes
- Health Score: Visual health score (0-100) based on detected issues
- Issue Management: Filter, search, and manage issues by severity (Critical, Medium, Low)
- Scan History: Track all scans with timestamps and health scores over time
- AJAX-Based Processing: Efficient batch processing prevents server overload
- Real-Time Progress: Live progress bar with status updates during scanning
- Smart Duplicate Detection: Prevents duplicate issues from accumulating across multiple scans
- Exclusion Support: Automatically excludes wp-admin and internal WordPress links
How It Works
- Click “Start Scan” from the Dashboard
- The plugin scans all your posts and pages
- Detects broken links, missing images, and HTTP errors
- Displays results with detailed information including anchor text and broken URLs
- Calculate health score based on issues found
- Manage and track issues over time
Use Cases
- Website owners maintaining link quality
- SEO professionals monitoring site health
- Content managers ensuring all links work properly
- Developers maintaining client websites
Development
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please ensure your code follows WordPress coding standards.
Support
For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the plugin support forum.
Credits
Built with WordPress best practices and following WordPress coding standards.
Installation
Automatic Installation
- Go to WordPress Admin Plugins Add New
- Search for “Broken Link Scanner”
- Click “Install Now”
- Activate the plugin
Manual Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Navigate to ‘Broken Link Scanner’ in the admin menu
- Click ‘Start Scan’ to run your first health check
FAQ
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How does the health score work?
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The health score is calculated based on the percentage of healthy links: (Healthy Links / Total Links) × 100. A score of 100 means no issues, while lower scores indicate more broken links.
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Will scanning slow down my website?
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No. The plugin uses AJAX-based batch processing (10 URLs per request) to prevent server overload. Scans run in the background without affecting your site’s performance.
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Does it scan wp-admin links?
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No. The plugin automatically excludes wp-admin, admin-ajax.php, admin-post.php, and wp-login.php links from scanning to avoid false positives.
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Can I schedule automatic scans?
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Currently, scans are on-demand only. Scheduled automatic scans may be available in future versions.
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What types of issues are detected?
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The plugin detects:
* Broken links (404 errors)
* Client errors (403, 405, etc.)
* Server errors (500, 502, etc.)
* Missing images
* Missing CSS/JS assets
* Connection timeouts -
How are duplicate issues handled?
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The plugin uses advanced URL normalization and multi-level duplicate detection to ensure each unique broken link is counted only once per scan, even if found on multiple pages.
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Contributors & Developers
“Broklisc Link Scanner” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.3
- Fix: Corrected finish_scan AJAX action name (broklisc_finish_scan) so scan completes successfully
- Fix: Stable tag and plugin version alignment for WordPress.org
- Fix: Contributors field format in readme.txt
- Improvement: Better error handling when scan completes or session is lost
1.0.2
- Security improvements: Fixed sanitization and escaping issues
- Security improvements: Fixed nonce verification with proper sanitization
- Security improvements: Fixed internationalization issues in error messages
- Security improvements: Added ABSPATH check to cleanup script
- UI improvements: Fixed menu icon size on all admin pages
- UI improvements: Optimized icon sizes for better display
- Code quality: Converted inline styles/scripts to proper WordPress enqueue functions
- Code quality: Updated tested up to WordPress 6.9
1.0.0
- Initial release
- Complete website link scanning
- Health score calculation
- Issue management system
- Scan history tracking
- Duplicate issue detection
- Anchor text extraction
- Search and filter functionality