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Link Finder

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.

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Installation

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.

Reviews

February 1, 2024 1 reply
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.
January 29, 2024 1 reply
Still work perfectly in WordPress 6.4.2. It’s fast and clean. Hope it will be kept update.
March 12, 2023
Simple, uncomplicated, staightforward plugin — easy to use, most efficient
December 11, 2022 1 reply
Wanted to find my broken links and this plugin works well! Better than Broken Link Checker plugin which doesn’t work for me.
January 16, 2022
A comprehensive overview of broken links, works very intuitive. Good support from the developer.
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Contributors & Developers

“Link Finder” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

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.