About this plugin
GlobalDev Broken Link Monitor is a lightweight site-maintenance plugin that checks stored links in published WordPress content, blocks, page builders, templates, widgets and navigation menus.
The scanner runs in small batches from the WordPress dashboard, helping avoid long single requests on shared hosting. External URLs are checked with WordPress safe HTTP request functions, while links to the current site are checked directly.
Features
- Scan selected public post types.
- Scan WordPress classic navigation menus, including custom URLs, and saved block navigation/submenus.
- Scan links in page content, excerpts, standard HTML and published custom post types selected in settings.
- Scan Elementor elements and published templates.
- Scan WPBakery/Visual Composer shortcode buttons, encoded vc_link settings and raw HTML.
- Scan Divi Builder buttons, module destination links, and published Divi layouts.
- Scan saved link settings from Bricks, Beaver Builder, Breakdance, Oxygen, SiteOrigin, Themify Builder, Cornerstone, Zion, and other supported builders.
- Scan generic clickable shortcode links (such as Avada and Flatsome UX Builder buttons).
- Scan Gutenberg blocks, reusable blocks, block-theme navigation posts, site templates and navigation submenus.
- Scan active classic and block widgets.
- Scan URL/link-oriented custom fields, including WooCommerce external product links.
- Configure an exclusion list for historical importer metadata (by default _gdmpi_* ), without disabling regular custom-field scanning.
- Label each report entry with its detected content source (Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, Bricks, Content, Menu, Widget, Custom fields, etc.).
- Detect working links, redirects, broken responses, timeouts, and restricted responses.
- Separate internal and external links.
- Show the source page or menu item for each URL.
- Open the source editor directly from the report.
- Filter results by status or source location (menus, page/post/template content, widgets).
- Export the latest report to CSV.
- Optional weekly scans using WP-Cron.
- Optional email notification when a scheduled scan finds broken links or warnings.
- No third-party service and no external account required.
The plugin stores only the latest scan report in a custom database table.
Privacy
The plugin stores link URLs, source titles, source URLs, HTTP status information, and scan timestamps in the site’s WordPress database. It does not collect visitor data and does not send scan results to GlobalDev IT or another third-party service.
When a scan runs, the website server sends HTTP requests to the linked destinations. Those destinations may receive standard request information such as the server IP address and user agent.