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<p>The “Broken Link Notifier” WordPress plugin is a vigilant guardian for your website’s links, monitoring and alerting you to broken or dead links as users visit your site. This ensures a seamless user experience and helps prevent search engine ranking penalties. Unlike other broken link checker plugins that can cause performance and timeout issues with full site scans, this plugin focuses on notification, making it a great complement to offsite services that handle full site scans.</p>
<p>This plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>Scans content when users visit a page after the page fully loads, preventing performance lag</li>
<li>Identifies broken links, including 404 errors, timeouts, images, and embedded YouTube videos</li>
<li>Notifies you via dashboard notifications, email, Discord, and/or Microsoft Teams</li>
<li>Provides a list of broken links for easy review and correction</li>
<li>Allows easy replacement of links straight from the results page (<strong>NEW with Version 1.2.0</strong>)</li>
<li>Caches working (good) links to skip rechecking them for a configurable amount of time (<strong>NEW with Version 1.2.5</strong>)</li>
</ul>
<p>With “Broken Link Notifier”, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ensure accurate and functional links for your users</li>
<li>Prevent search engines from indexing broken links</li>
<li>Maintain a professional and trustworthy website image</li>
<li>Save time and effort in manual link checking</li>
<li>Scan multiple pages at a time on the back-end from your WP List Tables</li>
<li>Improve performance by caching successful link checks (optional)</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is a must-have for website owners, developers, and SEO enthusiasts who want to guarantee a smooth and error-free browsing experience for their audience!</p>
<p><strong>IF THIS PLUGIN FLAGS SOME LINKS AS BROKEN WHEN THEY ARE NOT, PLEASE READ THE FAQ BELOW</strong></p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Broken Link Notifier (WordPress Plugin)" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gM9Qy0HLplU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>


Broken Link Notifier


The developer has been extremely responsive and provided many improvements in a very short time. This very useful tool keeps getting better :)


Very useful tool, great support

Get notifications when a visitor loads a page with broken links

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<p>When a post is saved or published, this plugin will</p>
<ul>
<li>scan the post’s content for any URLs,</li>
<li>ping all the URLs found (except relative ones),</li>
<li>detect any broken or unreachable URLs and list them for review and correction.</li>
</ul>
<p>No more publishing of links or images broken by typos or incompletely copy-pasted URLs!</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Community support via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/spcl" rel="ugc">support forums on wordpress.org</a></li>
<li>We don’t handle support via e-mail, Twitter, GitHub issues etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active development of this plugin is handled <a href="https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/spcl" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</li>
<li>Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated.</li>
<li>If you think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/spcl" rel="ugc">support forums</a> first.</li>
<li>If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/spcl" rel="nofollow ugc">on WordPress Translate</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Author: <a href="https://sergejmueller.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sergej Müller</a></li>
<li>Maintainers: <a href="https://pluginkollektiv.org" rel="nofollow ugc">pluginkollektiv</a></li>
</ul>


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