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WP PlugIndex currently records Hrefix version 1.0.1 as active, updated 21d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
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.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
broken link checker
broken links
link checker
404
redirects
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity11 Oct 202621d ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version1.0.0→1.0.1
WordPress compatibility7.1.2→7.1.3
Tracking & source
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