Broken Links Repair By Hexometer
by Hexact, Inc. · Uncategorized
Broken Links Repair Plugin disables the bad links in your content immediately upon detection by Hexometer.com scanner.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 46/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈170 estimated
Momentum
-3%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 1/100. Last updated 2482 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
46 health vs 58 average across 25,755 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.0%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 9.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27, well behind 6.8.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2482 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.3.27; the current branch is 6.8
4.7★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.16★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2482 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| disable bad links your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| fix 404 links your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| hexometer your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| repair broken links your tag | Not checked yet | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 233 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
6.8y ago
latest release · v1.0.4 · 15 Jan 2020
2
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 months ago; the previous band took 14 months to cross, which places it about 69% of the way through.
Install history since 15 May 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ linuslorentzen4.9y ago
As a graphics and UI designer, I’m not happy to see a colored and highly detailed icon inside my WP admin menu. That’s just selfish – please follow common design aesthetics for WordPress backend. May I also suggest to change menu text from ‘Broken Links Repair’ to just ‘Links Repair’. It will change it into one line and therefore better looking and easier to read.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ lisazaana6.9y ago
Just install and connect with hexometer.com
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ bourquin6.9y ago
First day didn’t work well, but now working as promised
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ tanjum6.9y ago
I am using Hexometer more than a month, it is a great addition to the existing services.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ zkarapetyan6.9y ago
Another good tool from Hexometer. This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by zkarapetyan.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ amirulseo6.9y ago
In old websites, there are too many 404 links. This is an excellent solution to disable them.
Read on wp.org ↗
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
0 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 399 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 4 tags appear in the text ("disable bad links", "fix 404 links", "repair broken links" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-29 200+ → 100+ down after 407 days in tier
- 2025-05-18 300+ → 200+ down after 377 days in tier
- 2024-05-06 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-05-05 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-05-03 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-05-02 300+ → 400+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2024-04-23 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-04-22 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
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