Mustapha Samios

MD Embed Checker is a powerful tool that helps you maintain the quality of your WordPress content by scanning all your published content (Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types) for broken YouTube links. It uses robust background processing to handle large sites efficiently without timing out.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Comprehensive Scanning: Scans all public posts, pages, and custom post types (Portfolios, WooCommerce Products, etc.) for YouTube links.</li>
<li>Smart Detection: Supports YouTube links in iframes, shortcodes, and direct URLs.</li>
<li>Robust Performance: Uses atomic batch processing to scan thousands of items without server timeouts.</li>
<li>Real-time Progress: Monitor scan status live with detailed feedback.</li>
<li>Secure & Compliant: Built strictly following WordPress Coding Standards and security best practices (fully prepared SQL, escaped output).</li>
<li>Detailed Reports: View comprehensive reports of broken links with post details.</li>
<li>Export Functionality: Export scan results as HTML reports for team workflows.</li>
<li>Statistics Tracking: Track scan history and statistics over time.</li>
</ul>
Supported YouTube Link Formats: 
* Standard YouTube URLs (youtube.com/watch?v=) 
* Shortened URLs (youtu.be/) 
* Embedded iframes 
* Builder shortcodes 
* Custom shortcodes (visual composer, elementor, etc.) 
* Base64 encoded content
How It Works: 
1. Navigate to Tools → MD Embed Checker in your WordPress admin. 
2. Click “Start Scan” to initiate the background process. 
3. Monitor the real-time progress bar. 
4. Once complete, view broken links in the “Reports” tab or export them.
Perfect For: 
* Content managers who need to maintain link quality 
* Blog owners with many YouTube embeds 
* SEO-conscious website owners 
* Large publishing sites requiring scalable maintenance tools

MD Embed Checker

Scan your WordPress posts for broken YouTube links and automatically manage post status.

Ilias Chelidonis

Check for Broken Links scans your entire WordPress site for broken links, dead links, and 404 errors — and alerts you the moment something breaks, before Google finds it first.
Your site breaks quietly while you are busy. Pages get deleted, plugins get abandoned, external sites go offline. You had no idea. Check for Broken Links finds every broken link across your posts, pages, custom post types, comments, and slider content, and shows you exactly where each one was found so you can fix it fast.
Free Version
Run manual scans anytime and get a full results table showing every broken link, its status code, and exactly which page it was found on. Filter by type, export to CSV, and stay in full control with no automatic changes to your content.
Pro Version — Set It Once, Forget It
Pro runs automatic scheduled scans daily, weekly, or monthly and emails you. No manual checking, no guessing — just a silent background monitor that alerts you when something needs your attention.
Get Pro at https://checkforbrokenlinkswp.com
<h3>Features</h3>
Free
<ul>
<li>Scan posts and pages for broken links</li>
<li>Detect dead links and 404 errors</li>
<li>Scan custom post types</li>
<li>Detect links inside slider content</li>
<li>Scan comments and embedded links</li>
<li>Easy results table showing where each broken link was found</li>
<li>Filter results by type of link and content</li>
<li>Export results to CSV</li>
<li>Lightweight and fast scanning</li>
<li>Full control, no automatic changes to your content</li>
<li>Free forever, no credit card required</li>
</ul>
Pro
<ul>
<li>Everything in Free, plus:</li>
<li>Automatic scheduled scans (daily, weekly or monthly)</li>
<li>Choose your scan time and timezone</li>
<li>Email reports delivered to your inbox the moment broken links are found</li>
<li>Set it once, forget it, we alert you when something breaks</li>
<li>Priority support</li>
<li>1 site license</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPL v3. 
For more details, see: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv3</a>

Check for Broken Links


This plugin does the job well for pages, posts and comments. However, it does not scan the entire site, as it does not include searching to dead links in Custom Post Types - so this is my only reason for my 4 stars as oppose to 5.



UPDATE: After that awesome response, which is refreshing as some others resist and give excuses, I'm updating my review to 5 stars, can't wait for the next update - you guys are awesome and deserve it...


Works well, but lacks support for CPT.


No membership, no cloud, no muss, no fuss. Just works. Thank you :)


Perfect


Simple but effective and works as it should, thank you author.


Works As It Should

Never miss a broken link again. Scan your WordPress site for broken links and 404 errors — automatically.

MD Embed Checker vs Check for Broken Links