External Links Overview vs WhereUsed

The “External Links Overview” plugin scans your WordPress posts and pages for outgoing external links and presents them in a searchable, filterable, and sortable table. It helps you optimize your outbound link profile and identify broken or potentially harmful links. All plugin functions, options, and database entries use the prefix seokelo_ to prevent conflicts with other plugins. 👉 External Links Overview Plugin Homepage on seo-kreativ.de 💬 Get Support on WordPress.org Features ✅ Collects and analyzes external links from posts and pages ✅ Displays a detailed link table with sorting, filtering (e.g. broken links), and search ✅ Verifies the HTTP status of external links (e.g. 404, 301, timeout) ✅ Shows rel and target attributes of each link ✅ Tracks domain distribution: see which domains you link to most frequently ✅ CSV export of all link data ✅ Dashboard widget showing a summary of broken links ✅ Uses prefix seokelo_ / SEOKELO_ for all functions, options, and database entries ✅ Rescans posts after updates for up-to-date link data ✅ Clean uninstall: removes plugin data when deleted via WordPress admin Usage Go to External Links → Collect All External Links to start the initial scan. Use the Link Table tab to view, filter, and sort all collected links. Click Check External Links Status to validate HTTP status codes. Visit the Domain Distribution tab to analyze your outbound domain profile. Export your data using the Export CSV button. License This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Developer Notes Hooks and filters will be documented in future releases. The plugin uses seokelo_ as a unique function prefix throughout.

Where used? This plugin helps you find usage of attachments, posts, links, blocks and more in all post types, taxonomy terms, post meta, user meta, and menus. This plugin is multisite compatible! Items That Will Be Detected images, attachments links Gutenberg custom blocks or reusable blocks iframes Shortcodes (coming soon) Areas Where It Searches For The Items posts, post meta (even custom post types) taxonomy terms, term meta users, user meta WordPress menus Redirection rules (if Redirection plugin is installed) Discover Problems Broken links ( 404 errors hurt SEO ranking) Redirects referenced (301, 302 etc.) Unused reusable blocks Prevent You From Causing Problems Know where something is referenced before you delete it and create broken links or broken functionality on your site Find where a reusable block is used before you delete the reusable block Find out where blocks are used before you uninstall a plugin that has custom blocks Know when the slug of your page has been accidentally redirected due to regex matching via Redirection plugin IMPORTANT: This Plugin DOES NOT Does not search theme’s code or any plugin’s code for hardcoded references Does not detect references or backlinks located on websites beyond the scope of your WordPress install. Does not search custom database tables WARNING: Does not find every existence of usage due to mentioned lines above and possibly some unforeseen scenarios. Please always be cautious when deleting posts and attachments. This plugin does it’s best to help you be more confident in deleting unused content and maintaining existing content. Compatible With Multisite Installations Bedrock Fix Alt Text Redirection Advanced Custom Fields – ACF Network Media Library Recommended Plugins To Install Redirection – WhereUsed is more powerful as a tool with the Redirection plugin. Certain features of WhereUsed are not available unless Redirection is installed. Fix Alt Text – Like WhereUsed? You’ll love our other plugin, Fix Alt Text, which will help you manage your image alt text easier for better website SEO and accessibility. Quick Setup Guides Single Site Setup Install the WhereUsed plugin per instructions above and then activate it. Modify settings as need to ensure your entire site gets scanned properly. Adjust settings here: Admin > Tools > WhereUsed > Settings Do an initial full scan on the bottom right of the Dashboard here: Admin > Tools > WhereUsed Once the scan is complete, you can review the Dashboard to discover detected broken links and redirects. Multisite Setup Install the WhereUsed plugin per the instructions above and activate the plugin for the entire network or go to each site individually in the network and activate the plugin. All sites will default to using the network settings (for convenience). This can be disabled on a per site basis in the network settings area. WP Admin > Network Settings > Settings > WhereUsed Each site will need to be scanned so that all references are detected Multiple scans (full scan on each site) are prevented from running simultaneously to protect the server from getting too overwhelmed at one time. Once all scans have been run, you will be able to see all references on each site and all references between each site.