Check for Broken Links – Broken Link Checker & SEO Suite vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Find broken links, 404 errors & broken images. Internal link optimizer, rank tracking, AI visibility, SEO audits and uptime monitoring in one plugin. Broken Link Checker for WordPress: Find and Fix Broken Links Fast Check for Broken Links scans your entire WordPress site for broken links, dead links, 404 errors and broken images. It shows you exactly where each broken link was found so you can fix it fast. Your site breaks quietly while you are busy. Pages get deleted, plugins get abandoned, external sites go offline. Google finds the 404 errors before you do, and your rankings pay the price. This plugin finds every broken link across your posts, pages, custom post types and slider content, and Pro extends the scan to comments and custom fields. Unlike external link checker tools, the plugin runs inside WordPress. It scans private content, drafts and pages behind login that no external crawler can reach. Version 3 adds five more tools to the same plugin. You can now track your keyword positions, watch how AI assistants mention your brand, repair your internal linking, audit your site for SEO and AEO, and monitor uptime. All of it runs in wp-admin. See the section below. How It Works Install and scan. Run your first manual scan in seconds and see every broken link on your site. Set your schedule (Pro). Choose daily, weekly or monthly scans. Pick your scan time and timezone. Get alerted (Pro). The moment a link breaks, you get an email report showing the link, its status code and where it appears. Free Version Run manual scans anytime and get a full results table. You see every broken link, its HTTP status code and the exact page it was found on. Filter results by link type, content type and error status such as 404, 403 or 500. Export everything to CSV. The plugin never changes your content automatically, so you stay in full control. Free features: Scan posts and pages for broken links Detect dead links and 404 errors Detect broken images Scan custom post types Detect links inside slider content Scan embedded internal and external links Results table showing where each broken link was found Filter results by link type, content type and error status Export results to CSV Track 10 keywords in the Rank Tracker Run one SEO / AEO audit a month Lightweight and fast scanning No automatic changes to your content Free forever, no credit card required The SEO Suite: Five More Tools in wp-admin Every tool below connects to your brokenlinkchecker.io account. One account covers all of them, on the web and in WordPress. Connecting is free and takes one click from the Settings page. Keyword Rank Tracker Track your Google and Bing positions for the keywords you choose, without leaving WordPress. Each keyword shows its current position, its change since the last check, its best position, search volume, CPC and search intent. You pick the market, device and search engine when you add a keyword. Add or remove keywords at any time, refresh on demand and export the table to CSV. Rankings update weekly on every plan, and daily updates are available as an add-on. The free plan tracks 10 keywords. Paid plans start at 50 and go up to 1,000. More about the Keyword Rank Tracker and the dedicated Bing Rank Tracker. AI Visibility Tracker People now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews the questions they used to type into Google. This tracker shows you the answers. You add the prompts your customers actually use, and the tracker checks them weekly to see whether your site gets mentioned or cited. One credit tracks one prompt. Business and Agency plans include 10 credits, and larger packs are available for any plan. The plugin opens your project’s prompt tracking straight from the sidebar. More about the AI Visibility Tracker Internal Link Optimizer Some of your pages have no internal links pointing to them. Search engines rarely find those orphan pages, and they almost never rank. This tool maps the links between your own pages, lists the orphans and suggests which posts should link to which, with anchor text written by AI. Internal links pass ranking value between your pages. Fix the gaps and your strongest pages start lifting the weaker ones. More about the Internal Link Optimizer SEO / AEO Audit Run a full audit of your site and get a fix list sorted by impact. The audit covers technical SEO, on-page factors and how well your content answers questions in Google and Bing. AEO means Answer Engine Optimization. It covers the parts that decide whether AI assistants quote your content: clear headings, structured data, direct answers and clean markup. The audit scores both sides and tells you what to fix first. Every plan includes monthly audits, from one on Free up to 25 on Agency. More about the SEO / AEO Audit Uptime Monitor A site that is down earns nothing and ranks worse. The Uptime Monitor checks your site from outside and reports incidents and response times inside wp-admin. One click adds a monitor for your connected site. Email alerts go out the moment your site stops responding, and you set the alert address and sensitivity in the plugin. It also watches WP-Cron with a separate heartbeat monitor. WP-Cron runs your scheduled jobs, and on many hosts it fails without a word. The plugin gives you a paste-ready snippet for it. Check frequency depends on your plan. More about the Uptime Monitor Pro Version: Set It Once, Forget It Pro turns the plugin from a checker into a monitor. It runs automatic scheduled scans, emails you the moment a link breaks, and helps you repair links with AI. Pro is included in every Broken Link Checker plan, starting at $49 per year. Pro features: Everything in Free Automatic scheduled scans (daily, weekly or monthly) Choose your scan time and timezone Email reports the moment broken links are found, to one or more recipients Notify post authors about broken links in their own content All-clear reports when no broken links are found Scan comments and custom fields, including ACF Fix with AI: finds a verified working replacement for each broken link Nofollow broken links until they are fixed Auto-fix permanently redirected URLs Replacement suggestions from the Wayback Machine Export as XLSX, TXT, PDF and Markdown for AI 50 to 1,000 rank-tracked keywords AI Visibility credits on Business and Agency plans Internal Link Optimizer 5 to 25 SEO / AEO audits a month Uptime monitoring with email alerts SEO optimized report page Priority support Plans for 1, 5 or 250 sites What Users Say “Simple but effective and works as it should” – @snappaguy “In 10 minutes did my first check and found and fixed my broken links.” – @rguiffrey “No membership, no cloud, no muss, no fuss. Just works.” – @eliyahna Why Fixing Broken Links Matters for SEO Every 404 error Google hits on your site signals poor maintenance. Broken links waste crawl budget, hurt user experience and damage rankings over time. Regular link checking keeps your site healthy in Google’s eyes. When a page is removed or a URL changes, set up a redirect to keep your link equity. Other Plugins by Norse Digital Group LLC Text to Speech – TTSWP – TTSWP.com adds audio narration to your WordPress content with 600+ voices in 70+ languages. Audio versions keep visitors on the page longer, and stronger engagement signals support your SEO. Multi-format content is also easier for AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to pick up, which strengthens your AEO visibility. Broken link fixing and audio content work well together: both keep your site healthy, accessible and easy to rank. License This plugin is licensed under the GPL v3. For more details, see: GPLv3

Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate. Really simple, Effective and Performant WordPress Security Really Simple Security is the most lightweight and easy-to-use security plugin for WordPress. It secures your WordPress website with SSL certificate generation, including proper 301 https redirection and SSL enforcement, scanning for possible vulnerabilities, Login Protection and implementing essential WordPress hardening features. We believe that security should have the absolute minimum effect on website performance, user experience and maintainability. Therefore, Really Simple Security is: Lightweight: Every security feature is developed with a modular approach and with performance in mind. Disabled features won’t load any redundant code. Easy-to-use: 1-minute configuration with short onboarding setup. Security Features Easy SSL Migration Migrates your website to HTTPS and enforces SSL in just one click. 301 redirect via PHP or .htaccess Secure cookies Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation. Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security. WordPress Hardening Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling potential weaknesses. Prevent code execution in the uploads folder Prevent login feedback and disable user enumeration Disable XML-RPC Disable directory browsing Username restrictions (block ‘admin’ and public names) and much more.. Vulnerability Detection Get notified when plugins, themes or WP core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action. Login Protection Allow or enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific user roles. Users receive a two-factor code via Email. Improve Security with Really Simple Security Pro Protect your site with all essential security features by upgrading to Really Simple Security Pro. Advanced SSL enforcement Mixed Content Scan & Fixer. Detect files that are requested over HTTP and fix them to HTTPS, both Front- and Back-end. Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security and configure your site for the HSTS Preload list. Firewall Really Simple Security Pro includes a performant and efficient WordPress firewall, to stop bots, crawlers and bad actors with IP and username blocks. 404 blocking – Blocks crawlers as they trigger unusual numbers of 404 errors. Region blocking – Only allow/block access to your site from specific regions. Automated and customisable Firewall rules. IP blocklist and allowlist. Security Headers Security headers protect your site visitors against the risk of clickjacking, cross-site-forgery attacks, stealing login credentials and malware. Independent of your Server Configuration, works on Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, etc. Protect your website visitors with X-XSS Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer Policy and CORS headers. Automatically generate your WordPress-tailored Content Security Policy. Vulnerability Measures When a vulnerability is detected in a plugin, theme or WordPress core you will get notified accordingly. With Vulnerability Measures, you can configure simple but effective measures to make sure that a critical vulnerability won’t remain unattended. Force update: An update process will be tried multiple times until it can be assumed development of a theme or plugin is abandoned. You will be notified during these steps. Quarantine: When a plugin or theme can’t be updated to solve a vulnerability, Really Simple Security can quarantine the plugin. Advanced Site Hardening Choose a custom login URL Automated File Permissions check and fixer Rename and randomize your database prefix Change the debug.log file location to a non-public folder Disable application passwords Control admin creation Disable HTTP methods, reducing HTTP requests Login Protection Secure your website’s login process and user accounts with powerful security measures. Two-Step verification (Email login) 2FA (two factor authentication) with TOTP Passwordless login with passkey login Enforce strong passwords and frequent password change Limit Login Attempts With Limit Login Attempts you can configure a threshold to temporarily or permanently block IP addresses or (non-existing) usernames. You can also throw a CAPTCHA after a failed login (hCaptcha or Google reCaptcha) Access Control Restrict access to your site for specific regions. Add specific IP addresses or IP ranges to the Blocklist or Allowlist. Useful Links Documentation Security Definitions Translate Really Simple Security Issues & pull requests Feature requests Love Really Simple Security? If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please consider buying Really Simple Security Pro, which includes some excellent security features and premium support. About Really Simple Plugins Our mission is to make complex WordPress requirements really easy. Really Simple Security is developed by Really Simple Plugins. For generating SSL certificates, Really Simple Security uses the le acme2 PHP Let’s Encrypt client library, thanks to ‘fbett’ for providing it. Vulnerability Detection uses WP Vulnerability, an open-source initiative by Javier Casares. Want to join as a collaborator? We’re on GitHub as well!