Link Rot Repair
Broken link checker for WordPress. Find broken links and redirects in your posts and fix them in a few clicks, with undo for every change.
a broken link checker for your posts and pages
Find and fix link rot without opening each post.
Link Rot Repair checks the links in your posts and pages every month and lets you fix them from the report.
Fix broken links
Replace the URL, remove the link while keeping its text, or ignore it.
Update redirects
Update redirected links one at a time or all at once.
Undo every change
Undo any change from Activity. Check now at any time and export the report to CSV.
A monthly report
Your site emails its administrator from the first check. Turn the monthly email off in Settings.
broken links, redirects and undo / screenshots
free and paid broken link checks
Free plan
Free
- 250 different external links checked each month, per domain, shared by sites on that domain.
- No card, account or email. No trial period, no automatic upgrade.
- Reports, export, manual fixes, bulk updates, undo and plugin updates stay free after you reach 250.
Paid plan
EUR 49 / year or EUR 5 / month
EUR 4.08 / mo, billed annually at EUR 49 / year. Or EUR 5 / mo, billed monthly.
Prices exclude VAT. Applicable VAT is added at checkout.
- Up to 5,000 links on 1 site, checked every night.
- Find where broken and redirected links went: a new address checked against the original page, or an archived copy.
- With automatic updates on, fix simple redirects and permanent moves.
optional automatic updates for link rot and redirects
Changed a page's URL or your site's domain? Link Rot Repair can update links pointing to the old address. This runs on your site, is free and works without hosted checks. Automatic updates are off by default; turn them on in Settings.
On the paid plan, automatic updates can fix simple redirects: http to https, www added or removed, letter case in the domain, or a trailing slash. A permanent redirect can also update on its own when its destination is judged to be the same page. Each change appears in Activity with Undo. Other new addresses found by the service wait for you to click Replace.
hosted checks and external services
Link checks run on the hosted Link Rot Repair service, operated by Forethought Studio SASU in the European Union behind Cloudflare. Activation alone sends nothing to the checking service. After an administrator starts free monthly checks, the plugin sends the public HTTPS home URL, a random installation ID, the plugin version and the selected full link URLs, including paths and query strings. No post content or visitor data are sent. Do not submit links containing private information, passwords or access tokens.
Once checks start, required daily health summaries contain a masked error fingerprint, a count, the day and software versions, without error messages, stack traces or log contents. Detailed error reports and weekly usage statistics are optional and off until you turn them on. A deactivation reason, if you give one, and a support message, if you send one, also go to the service.
Paid checks use the Internet Archive and Anthropic Claude to help find and compare replacement pages. The Archive receives the old address. A Claude web search, when needed, receives the old address without its query string and the old page's public title and description. Comparing a candidate sends Claude the public text of the old and candidate pages. No post content, site credentials or visitor data are sent.
Freemius runs checkout for the paid plan. Connecting an account, allowing usage tracking and buying a plan are each optional. Connecting shares administrator and site details; purchases share billing and payment details with Freemius and its payment providers. See the privacy policy for retention, transfers and your rights.
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