How to Check Broken Links and Dead Links in Website or WordPress Blog Using Broken Link Checker Plugin

Updated on January 6th, 2013 by Quertime Team in WordPress

Sometimes the links in our blog may have errors due to changes in URL locations, deleted pages, missing images, site moved to a different domain and so on. It’s quite impossible to check all the links manually if you have lots of posts in your blog. Fortunately this problem can be addressed by installing Broken Link Checker plugin on your WordPress blog. This plugin allows you to check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found. It also improves usability, user experience and search engine optimization (SEO).

Features

Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, 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

Once installed, you can go to Settings > Link Checker to enable or disable various features and tweak the plugin’s configuration.