Link Checker

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 39% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ KJA4U

   3.2y ago

   The free version is useless.

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2. ★★★★★ cacabe

   4.5y ago

   The URL limit was reached. The Link Checker has not checked your whole website. You can buy a token for the Link Checker Professional to check up to 500’000 URLs. Thank you for wasting my time !

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3. ★★★★★ serdasteclas

   4.9y ago

   the 500 links limit is too little for any website.

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4. ★★★★★ Chris LOW

   5.5y ago

   EDITED REVIEW: 2021.03.10 The free plugin works, but stops before it can finish being useful. 500 links is simply not enough for a free version. It doesn’t provide a free tier that’s functional for most medium-sized websites. You end up having to buy it to actually use it. That makes this more of an advertisement than an actual plugin. I’m using a different plugin. EDITED 2021.03.11 See my reply dated today. EDIT: The free plugin only checks 500 links. This is entirely useless, even for medium-sized sites. EDIT: Plugin registration consists of link allotments, with the minimum being 25K links checked in one go for ~50 Euros. It goes up drastically from there because Marco’s server is the one doing the crawling. Most target websites are small, hosted on huge commercial properties optimized for WordPress. Additionally, crawling the local site may not be as optimal as scraping each post’s content field for links and storing results locally. My server should be the one doing the work. If my server is doing the work, you can’t expect me to pay by the link for a service my server is doing. Period. An example of a per unit subscription model that works is Mailchimp. Their servers are doing the work in a trusted secure environment so that my web host box doesn’t become a shadow spambot. Offloading that service to mailchimp is not sketchy, and their terms are more than generous for small to mid-sized website admins, with a free tier that is actually commodious. That’s not what’s happening with this plugin. It checks every link on every page, even footer links that repeat across the entire site, so if you have a link like “theme created by…”, that link counts on every page against your priced link count. Absurd. Worse, it counts a number of known valid links as broken. WordPress plugins in the .org library should offer a reasonable modicum of usefulness out of the gate. It should not seem hampered to the site admin. The pro version should offer additional capabilities that make the free plugin seem more complete. This plugin offers only a glimpse of what the paid plugin might do if you are willing to pay 45 euros minimum to check 25K links. You want to check more links? Buy more tokens. EDIT: Given the Author’s (Marco Beierer) balanced response, I’ll say this would better serve the WP community and Marco himself by: scraping post content directly for links rather than crawling, removing the tier caps — including for the free version — and then Price the pro version between $50 and $100 for a single-tier paid version that also includes image and youtube link checking. Also for the pro version, add the ability to check all site menu links, sidebar/footer/widget links, post content for custom post-type links, custom field links, etc. This would give the expected additional capability along with unrestricted link checking found in the free version. A great plugin makes the free-plugin adopter feel like they’re getting such a bargain they feel guilty for not supporting the plugin with either a donation or an upgrade to the pro version. This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Chris LOW. This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Chris LOW. This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Chris LOW. This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Chris LOW. This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Chris LOW. This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Chris LOW.

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5. ★★★★★ ekofan

   5.7y ago

   Excellent Links plugin for checking and repairing. It helps me a lot. Added new features in recent months. Better than others, I recommend it. This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by ekofan.

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6. ★★★★★ cleciomayrink

   6.3y ago

   Verify just 500 link and very expensive the professional version. This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by cleciomayrink.

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7. ★★★★★ Gotcha

   6.6y ago

   Works but very limited with free version and so expensive for “pro”. => uninstall This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Gotcha. Reason: Stars

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8. ★★★★★ kylomylo

   6.6y ago

   The lite one is useless, and the professional hasn’t a price ( nothing to guide about), depends on site size, I think. Very disappointed.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.19.0 Release Date – 2nd June, 2026 WordPress 7 compatibility update while keeping WordPress 4.7 as the minimum supported version. Hardened settings sanitization, admin AJAX handling, and bundled jQuery compatibility for curre 1.19.0
2. — Version 1.18.7 Release Date – 14th January, 2023 Updated readme. 1.18.7
3. — Version 1.18.6 Release Date – 24th October, 2022 Added paywall. 1.18.6
4. — Version 1.18.5 Release Date – 1st August, 2022 Changed name. 1.18.5
5. — Version 1.18.4 Release Date – 1st August, 2022 Updated readme. 1.18.4
6. — Version 1.18.3 Release Date – 1st August, 2022 Added paid version info. Updated ‘Tested up to’ information. 1.18.3

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 7.1 Link Checker <= 1.16.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2019-03-22 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 1.17.0 Patched in 1.17.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-11-29 5K+ → 4K+ down after 5 days in tier
2. 2025-11-24 4K+ → 5K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-11-23 5K+ → 4K+ down after 234 days in tier
4. 2025-04-03 6K+ → 5K+ down after 187 days in tier
5. 2024-09-28 7K+ → 6K+ down after 228 days in tier
6. 2024-02-13 8K+ → 7K+ down after 229 days in tier
7. 2023-06-29 9K+ → 8K+ down after 142 days in tier
8. 2023-02-07 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO – Find & Fix Broken Internal, External & Video Links 300K+ installs · 3.9★ · 4 shared tags B
• External Links Overview 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
• Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI 10M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A

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Link Checker: 4K+ active installs, 3.2★ (30 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/link-checker