Whether you manage our own blog or have someone manage it for you, broken links happen. Over time, posts and pages are moved or deleted; sites are taken down. Thus, leading to broken links.
When you are building a blog to attract and retain loyal readers, the last thing you want to do is to annoy them with links that lead to a 404 Error-Not Found page.
Checking links by hand, especially if you have a lot of posts, can be tedious and time consuming. Believe me, there is enough to do in a day without checking posts for broken links.
Broken links can also affect your page ranking in Google. Recently, I found a plug-in that will solve this problem:
Enter the Broken Link Checker
- Detects links that don’t work
It detected a link to images that had been removed on another blog.
- Checks links in posts, comments,and blogroll.
A reader had mis-typed his URL. Broken link checker notified me and I was able to correct it.
- Checks new posts and entries immediately.
As I was writing this post and installing the links, the plug-in was essential in “getting it right”
- Notifies you on the Dashboard if problems are found.
This feature is very convenient, as I made a habit of looking at my Dashboard first
- Lets you edit all instances of a specific link at once.
Talk about a time saver! Once I corrected a broken link in “comments”, it corrected that link in other places on my blog.
- Gives you a list of all the links posted on your site.
I can see all of the links in my blog at a glance. Nice.
- Allows you to apply CSS styles to broken or removed links.
I don’t create CSS styles so I couldn’t give you a review of this feature but I’m sure this added capability will make developers happy!
Download It Here !*
Requirements:*
WordPress 2.9 or later
MySQL 4.1 or later