VLINK ASIA

<p><strong>Find every broken or redirecting internal link in your WordPress content, and fix them in bulk.</strong></p>
<p>VLink Broken Links Scout reads your content straight from the database, so the front-end never gets crawled and visitors are never slowed down. Every fix is preceded by a one-click-restorable snapshot, so you can replace links across hundreds of posts without fearing a typo.</p>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Scan</strong> your content for internal links.</li>
<li><strong>Check</strong> each URL with a real HTTP request and classify the response.</li>
<li><strong>Fix</strong> broken URLs and permanent redirects (301 / 308) one at a time or in bulk.</li>
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<h4>What gets flagged</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Broken</strong>: 404 Not Found, 410 Gone.</li>
<li><strong>Safe to auto-replace</strong>: 301 Moved Permanently, 308 Permanent Redirect.</li>
<li><strong>Informational only</strong>: 302 / 303 / 307 (the original URL is still authoritative, so the plugin will not auto-replace them).</li>
</ul>
<h4>How you fix things</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>One link at a time</strong>: open the Change Link modal, see the suggested target, replace across every post that uses it.</li>
<li><strong>In bulk</strong>: filter by status, preview the diff, then apply.</li>
<li><strong>Always reversible</strong>: every fix creates a snapshot you can restore in one click.</li>
<li><strong>Audit trail</strong>: every change is logged with old URL, new URL, posts touched, user, and timestamp.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built for safety</h4>
<ul>
<li>Snapshot before every change. Restore is one click away.</li>
<li>Background work runs in small bounded batches with retry on timeout, so visitor requests are never blocked.</li>
<li>Optional scheduled scan with a clean HTML email summary.</li>
<li>RFC 3986 and RFC 9110 compliant URL handling, so http vs https, www vs non-www, and trailing slash variants are all matched correctly.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>The plugin does not collect, store, or transmit personal data about visitors or administrators. No third-party API calls. No telemetry. No analytics. No call-home.</p>
<p>The only outbound traffic is HTTP requests to the URLs already present in your own content, in order to read their response codes. No cookies, no Referer header, and no request body are sent.</p>
<p>The optional scheduled-scan email report sends a plain summary to the WordPress admin address you configure; nothing leaves your server otherwise.</p>


VLink Broken Links Scout

Scan the WordPress database for internal links that return 404, 410, or 301/302 redirects, and fix them in bulk. RFC 3986 and RFC 9110 compliant.

Archivarix Support

<p>Archivarix Broken Links Recovery scans your WordPress content for broken external and internal links and helps you fix them using the Wayback Machine (Web Archive) or manual management.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Multi-level link checking:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>HTTP status codes (4xx, 5xx, timeouts, DNS failures)</li>
<li>Redirect analysis (different domain, redirect to root)</li>
<li>Domain parking detection (30+ parking service signatures)</li>
<li>Content-Type mismatch detection</li>
<li>Soft 404 detection</li>
<li>YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok video availability via oEmbed API</li>
<li>Social network link validation (Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest)</li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>Automatic mode:</strong> Replaces broken links with Web Archive copies using the post date as timestamp. Falls back to removing links when archive is unavailable.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Manual mode:</strong> Full control — review each broken link and choose the action:</p>
<ul>
<li>Replace with Web Archive copy</li>
<li>Replace with custom URL</li>
<li>Remove link (keep anchor text)</li>
<li>Remove link and anchor text</li>
<li>Whitelist (ignore and skip in future scans)</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<p><strong>Internal link checking:</strong> Validates internal links against WordPress database and HTTP verification.</p>
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<p><strong>Background processing:</strong> Scans run in the background without blocking your site.</p>
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<p><strong>Scan sources:</strong> Posts, pages, custom post types, comments, custom fields, widgets, Elementor content.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Proxy support:</strong> Configure HTTP proxies for external link checking to avoid rate limiting.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Detailed logs:</strong> Every check and action is logged for review.</p>
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<p><strong>Bulk actions:</strong> Fix multiple links at once.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>WP-CLI & multisite:</strong> Scan and fix from the command line (<code>wp ablr scan</code>), and across a multisite network without logging into each site (<code>wp ablr scan --network</code>).</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>AI-ready (WordPress 7.0):</strong> Scan, list and fix operations are registered with the Abilities API and available over REST and MCP, so custom dashboards and AI agents can drive the plugin.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Works great with <a href="https://archivarix.com/en/wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Archivarix External Images Importer</a> — this plugin handles links, that plugin handles images.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Available in:</strong> English, Russian (Русский), Spanish (Español).</p>
<p>For more information, visit the <a href="https://archivarix.com/en/blog/broken-links-recovery/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin page</a>.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to external services to check link availability and find archived copies of broken pages. No personal user data is ever sent — only the URLs found in your WordPress content are transmitted to these services during scans initiated by the site administrator.</p>
<h4>Wayback Machine (Internet Archive)</h4>
<p>Used to check if an archived copy of a broken page exists and to build replacement URLs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Availability API endpoint: <code>https://archive.org/wayback/available?url={page_url}&timestamp={date}</code></li>
<li>Sends: the broken page URL and the post publication date (as a timestamp hint)</li>
<li>Called when: checking Wayback availability for broken links (during scan or manual lookup)</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/about/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a></li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/about/terms#702-privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>YouTube oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to verify whether a YouTube video is still available.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: <code>https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url={video_url}&format=json</code></li>
<li>Sends: the YouTube video URL found in content</li>
<li>Called when: a YouTube link is encountered during scan</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/t/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Vimeo oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to verify whether a Vimeo video is still available.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: <code>https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url={video_url}</code></li>
<li>Sends: the Vimeo video URL found in content</li>
<li>Called when: a Vimeo link is encountered during scan</li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>TikTok oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to verify whether a TikTok video is still available.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: <code>https://www.tiktok.com/oembed?url={video_url}</code></li>
<li>Sends: the TikTok video URL found in content</li>
<li>Called when: a TikTok link is encountered during scan</li>
<li><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/legal/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Pinterest oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to verify whether a Pinterest pin or board is still available.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: <code>https://www.pinterest.com/oembed.json?url={pin_url}</code></li>
<li>Sends: the Pinterest URL found in content</li>
<li>Called when: a Pinterest link is encountered during scan</li>
<li><a href="https://policy.pinterest.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policy.pinterest.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Social network link verification</h4>
<p>The plugin makes HTTP GET requests to social network URLs found in your content to verify they are still accessible. No API keys or authentication tokens are used — only standard browser-like HTTP requests. No data is sent beyond the URL itself.</p>
<p>Platforms checked: Twitter/X (x.com), LinkedIn (linkedin.com), Instagram (instagram.com), Facebook (facebook.com).</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://x.com/tos" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter/X Terms</a> | <a href="https://x.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIn Terms</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870" rel="nofollow ugc">Instagram Terms</a> | <a href="https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/terms.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook Terms</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>General link checking</h4>
<p>During scans, the plugin makes HTTP GET requests to all external URLs found in your WordPress content (posts, pages, comments, widgets, custom fields) to verify their HTTP status. Only the URL itself is requested — no personal data, cookies, or authentication information is transmitted.</p>
<h4>httpbin.org (proxy testing)</h4>
<p>Used solely to test proxy connectivity when the administrator configures proxies in plugin settings.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: <code>https://httpbin.org/ip</code></li>
<li>Sends: nothing (simple GET request to verify the proxy works)</li>
<li>Called when: administrator clicks “Test Proxies” in settings</li>
<li><a href="https://httpbin.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">httpbin.org</a> is an open-source HTTP testing service</li>
</ul>


Archivarix Broken Links Recovery

Finds broken external and internal links and replaces them with Web Archive copies or manages them manually.

VLink Broken Links Scout vs Archivarix Broken Links Recovery