Broken Link Checker

Summary: Antimanual's Broken Link Checker is a resource-friendly, ProMax feature that automatically scans your WordPress content for broken links, redirect chains, and insecure mixed content. Easily identify and resolve issue URLs with 1-click database fixes directly from your dashboard.

Maintaining a clean and healthy link profile is a critical aspect of modern search engine optimization (SEO) and user experience (UX). When search engine crawlers or human visitors click a link on your website and land on a 404 page, it wastes your crawl budget and damages your search authority.

To solve this problem cleanly, Antimanual features an advanced Broken Link Checker designed to monitor your site’s links automatically and fix them in a single click directly from your database.

Core Features and Guides

To make managing your link health seamless, the Broken Link Checker is divided into several focused components. Explore the individual guides below to master each feature:

1. Scanning and Auditing

Learn how to configure post types, bypass the transient cache, and initiate a smart, background-chunked interactive scan without overloading your hosting server.

• Post Type Filters: Choose whether to scan Posts, Pages, or custom post types.
• Smart Caching: Save server resources with a 6-hour transient cache.
• Time-Bounded Scanning: Keep audits crash-free with 12-second background processing budgets.

2. Resolving Link Issues

Discover how to fix broken links directly from your dashboard using 1-click database updates. Update replacement URLs inline, remove hyperlinks cleanly, ignore whitelist entries, and perform bulk updates.

• Inline Editing: Change broken URLs in your database without opening individual posts.
• Smart Link Removal: Remove link tags while preserving the anchor text.
• Whitelisting: Skip temporarily down sites with the Ignore feature.
• Bulk Execution: Resolve multiple link issues simultaneously in one click.

3. Redirect Chain Bypass

Bypass latency-inducing redirect chains and circular redirect loops. Antimanual maps redirect hops and lets you update links to point directly to their final destinations in a single click.

• Hop Tracing: Track redirect hops recursively (up to 10 hops).
• Use Final URL: Replace middle hops with direct destination URLs to conserve link juice and speed up load times.
• Loop Detection: Identify circular redirect loops instantly.

4. Scheduled Scans and Alerts

Put your link maintenance on autopilot. Configure automated background scans on a Daily, Weekly, or Monthly basis, and receive email alert digests whenever new issues are detected.

• Automation: Set WP-Cron triggers to audit links automatically.
• Email Digests: Receive actionable notifications straight to your inbox.
• System Optimization: Best practices for configuring server-side cron alerts.

Utility Dashboard Options

In addition to core features, the main dashboard provides several utility options:

• Clear Cache: Force a fresh network check bypassing the transient cache transient.
• Export CSV: Download an offline spreadsheet report of filtered issues from any report tab.
• Export All: Grab a single, combined spreadsheet report containing both broken links and redirect chains.