Saral Link Checker
Links break all the time: other sites move pages, shops discontinue products, and you rename your own posts. Visitors land on “Page not found”, and search engines notice too. Saral Link Checker finds those links in your content, tells you which missing pages visitors are actually hitting, and lets y
Links break all the time: other sites move pages, shops discontinue products, and you rename your own posts. Visitors land on “Page not found”, and search engines notice too. Saral Link Checker finds those links in your content, tells you which missing pages visitors are actually hitting, and lets you fix both from one place.
Everything runs on your site
There is no account to create and no cloud service in between. Your site checks the links itself, in small batches in the background, so even large sites aren’t slowed down. Each address is checked once, however many posts use it, and the plugin’s tables stay small.
Fewer false alarms
A link is only called broken when there’s no doubt: the page is gone (404 or 410), the domain no longer exists, or the site failed three checks in a row. A site that is just slow or briefly down isn’t reported after one bad check.
Many big sites (LinkedIn, Amazon, sites behind Cloudflare and others) refuse automated visits even when the page works. Instead of listing those as broken, Saral Link Checker puts them under “Couldn’t check” with an explanation, so you can open the link and confirm it yourself.
Fix links without opening each post
- Edit: change a link’s address in every post that uses it, in one go.
- Use new address: for a link that redirects, point it straight at the page it ends up on.
- Unlink: remove a dead link and keep its text.
- Not broken: hide a link you’ve checked yourself.
Each change is saved as a normal post revision, so you can undo it from the post editor.
A 404 log that leads to a fix
When a visitor or search engine asks for an address on your site that doesn’t exist, it’s logged with how often it happened and which page linked to it. One click starts a redirect, and Saral Link Checker suggests the published page whose address looks most like the missing one. Visitors’ IP addresses are never stored.
Redirects
Send old addresses to the right page with 301, 302, 307 or 308 redirects, or answer 410 to tell search engines a page was removed for good. Addresses are matched without regard to capital letters or a trailing slash, and query strings such as ?utm_source= are passed on to the new page. Each redirect counts its visits, so you can see which ones still matter. Sites without redirects don’t run a database lookup at all.
