Under Plugins, Add New, search for “broken link checker”, install, ‘install now’, and activate.
There’s no clicking around to open all the posts, and finding the links, and editing them all manually. This plugin gathers all the links that are returning with errors and puts them all in one screen for you. When you edit the broken link, it will automatically add a redirect so there are no further broken links caused by the change. The latest update to this plugin also parses the blogroll links! This is SO handy!
- The options screen is “Broken Links” under Settings.
- The broken links summary is under Tools.
- The link text, is the text that is linked.
- the link is the address that is broken
- “Discard” will only remove it from this summary page. It will leave the text and link in place.
- “Exclude” will add this url to the list of links that won’t be checked.
- “Edit” will let you change the broken link, and create a redirect so it won’t break incoming links.
- “Unlink” will let you unlink the broken url, and keep the text in place.
- Under the post title, you can go to the post to edit it directly, view or delete it.
Plugin Download & Security:
- last updated Dec. 25, 2009 (excellent!)
- compatible to WP version 2.8 – 2.9.1
- is hosted at wordpress.org
- author has active website
