Description
A button says “Pricing” and links to #pricing, but that section’s ID was renamed or deleted. Nothing happens when a visitor clicks it, and no broken-link checker tells you, because the page itself still loads.
Webot Anchor Check scans your published pages and posts, reads the rendered HTML (so menus, headers, footers and page-builder output are included), and checks that every #fragment link points to an element ID or <a name> that really exists on the target page.
What you get
- A full scan log of every page and every #anchor link, each marked OK, Broken, Failed, Skipped or Unchecked
- Filter and search the log, switch between a Links view and a Pages view
- A live progress terminal while the scan runs
- Failed pages are listed with the reason (for example HTTP 404), so nothing is skipped silently
- One-click edit links to the page that contains the broken link
- Optional weekly scan with a dashboard notice
- CSV export of the full log
- An ignore list for IDs that JavaScript creates after the page loads
- No external services, no account, no tracking. Everything stays on your site.
What it skips on purpose
#top(browsers scroll to the top without an ID)#!and#/style links used by JavaScript routers- Text fragments (
#:~:text=) - Links to other websites
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the
webot-anchor-checkfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen. - Activate the plugin.
- Go to Tools > Anchor Check and click Scan my site.
FAQ
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Why does it report an anchor that works on my site?
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Some tabs, accordions and sliders create their IDs with JavaScript after the page loads. The plugin reads the server-rendered HTML, so it cannot see those IDs. Add them to the ignore list under Tools > Anchor Check > Settings. Use * at the end to match a prefix, for example
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Does it check links to other websites?
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No. Only links to pages on your own site are checked.
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Will it slow down my site?
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Visitors are not affected. A scan requests your pages the same way a visitor would, in small batches, and only when you start it or when the weekly scan runs.
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My site is behind a password or maintenance mode.
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Pages that do not return a normal 200 response are skipped, because their anchors cannot be checked.
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Does it change my content?
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No. It only reads and reports.
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What data does it store?
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The latest scan results and log, your settings and short-lived cached ID lists, all in your own database. Everything is removed when you delete the plugin.
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Contributors & Developers
“Webot Anchor Check” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- First release.