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Caresort Broken Link Monitor
v1.0.0 · by caresortsolutions
Scans your site for broken links and reports them in your dashboard, with optional email alerts.
About this plugin
Caresort Broken Link Monitor scans your WordPress content for links and checks whether each one still resolves. When it finds a broken link, it’s added to a report inside your dashboard so you can fix, ignore, or remove it.
What gets scanned
- Post & page content
- Approved comments
- Custom fields (including ACF, which stores values as post meta)
- Navigation menu (custom link) items
Features
- Scheduled automatic scans (daily or weekly) via WP-Cron
- Manual “Scan Now” button for on-demand checks
- Email alerts when new broken links are found
- Dashboard widget with a live broken-link count
- Exclude specific domains from scanning (e.g. sites that block bots)
- Sortable, searchable, filterable report (Broken / Ignored / All)
- Recheck, Ignore, and Delete actions per link, plus bulk actions