Hrefix Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Hrefix is a lightweight, 100% local broken link checker for WordPress.
No account. No cloud scanning service. No external API. Hrefix stores and checks links on your own WordPress site using WP-Cron and the WordPress HTTP API.
Popular alternatives moved scanning to hosted cloud services that require accounts. Hrefix keeps the workflow inside WordPress.
Features:
- Extracts links from published posts, pages, and public custom post types.
- Scans
<a href>and<img src>values. - Checks links in small WP-Cron batches.
- Uses HEAD requests with GET fallback for servers that reject HEAD.
- Flags broken links, redirects, and warning states.
- Treats 429 responses and timeouts as warnings until repeated failures.
- Lets you recheck, edit, unlink, or dismiss links.
- Replaces edited URLs in source post content.
- Removes links while preserving anchor text.
- Suggests similar published permalinks for broken internal links.
- Creates simple local 301 redirects for broken internal URLs.
- Includes a Redirects tab for manual add/delete.
- Includes a Dashboard widget with broken/warning counts.
- Settings for batch size, post types, exclusions, and external-link checking.
Everything in the free plugin is functional. There is no locked trialware code.
Screenshots
Hrefix list table with broken links, warnings, redirects, source posts, and row actions.
Redirect suggestions for a broken internal link with one-click 301 creation.
Redirects tab for adding, listing, and deleting local redirects.
