About this plugin
Link Invader finds broken links, dead images, and bot-blocked URLs across your whole site, and keeps watching so you know when something breaks.
Everything runs locally on your own site. There is no account to create, no credit card to enter, no monthly link quota, and none of your content is sent to anyone’s cloud.
Local first
- All scanning happens inside WordPress. Your links, your server, your data.
- Works on staging sites, intranets, and password-protected sites that cloud crawlers cannot reach.
- Unlimited links and unlimited scans. There is no quota, because there is no cloud bill behind it.
Host safe
- The scanner works in small, strictly budgeted slices with hard time and memory limits, so it stays friendly to shared hosting.
- Throttled, per-host-limited checking. Never floods any server, including yours: internal links are resolved through WordPress itself instead of HTTP.
- WP-CLI runner for very large sites: wp link-invader scan.
Accurate
- “Blocked” is not “broken.” Sites that refuse robots (403, bot challenges, rate limits) get their own status instead of a false positive.
- Nothing is flagged broken on first sight. Dead links are confirmed on a second, later check before you are told.
- Every verdict carries a confidence level, and one click dismisses a link you know is fine.
Works with page builders
- Divi, Elementor, Beaver Builder, Bricks and WPBakery all keep your page somewhere other than the post content. Link Invader reads the finished page, so links inside builder modules are checked like any other link.
- If a page cannot be read that way, it fetches the page properly rather than guessing.
- If your host or firewall blocks that too, it reads the addresses out of the builder’s own fields, and says in the log that it did.
- It never reports a link it did not actually find. A builder page is never padded out with results that are not on your site.
Complete coverage
- Scans the RENDERED content of every public post type, products and portfolios included, so links added by page builders, shortcodes, and blocks are seen. Choose what to scan in Settings.
- Menus, widgets, and footer links are covered. Broken images too.
- Every broken link says how long it has been failing, because a link that broke an hour ago may be a server restart and one that has been failing for a week is a link to fix.
- A link you have deleted stops being reported. It is marked as no longer on your site for one scan so you can see the fix worked, then removed.
- Visitor watch: when someone visits a page, its links are quietly bumped to the front of the recheck queue, so your busiest pages have the freshest results. This never runs checks during a page view and stores nothing about the visitor.