LinkMaster – Link Management, SEO, Broken Links & Redirects vs WhereUsed

LinkMaster is your complete solution for WordPress URL management, offering advanced permalink customization, smart redirection, and a powerful broken link scanner. Perfect for site administrators who need precise control over their URLs to optimize for SEO, enhance user experience, and manage complex URL structures. Unlike WordPress’s default permalink system, LinkMaster allows you to create unique, custom URLs for individual posts, pages, and custom post types without affecting your site’s overall URL structure. This flexibility is crucial for SEO, as it enables you to craft clean, descriptive URLs that search engines love. By using LinkMaster, you can ensure that your website’s URLs are SEO-friendly and properly redirected, which can improve your site’s search engine rankings and user navigation. For future updates and feedback, visit our website: getlinkmaster.com. Features Advanced Permalink Customization Create custom permalinks for individual posts and pages Full support for query parameters (e.g., /search?category=shoes) in URLs Support for all file extensions (.html, .php, .xhtml, etc.) Support for special characters in URLs Pro Bulk permalink management tools with CSV import/export URL pattern templates for consistent naming Smart Redirection System 301, 302, and 307 redirect support Query parameter handling Pro SEO-friendly link attributes (nofollow, sponsored) Export/import feature for bulk redirects Link expiration feature for temporary access links Advanced click analytics and reporting Broken Link Scanner Scan for broken links across posts, pages, and custom post types Detect 404 errors and missing URLs Generate a detailed report of broken links Pro Export broken links for easy management Scheduled automatic scanning to proactively find broken links Link Cloaking Create branded short URLs for affiliate links Hide affiliate IDs and long URLs Manage all cloaked links from a central dashboard Pro IP protection to block specific IPs from accessing links Password protection for exclusive access to links Link expiration dates for time-limited offers Click limits to restrict the number of times a link can be accessed Link Click Statistics Track click counts for all redirected links Pro Detailed analytics on link performance Export statistics for reporting Custom 404 Page Setup Create custom 404 error pages Redirect 404 errors to specific pages Customize 404 page content and design Log 404 errors for analysis Auto Link Injection (Premium Feature) Automatically link keywords to specified URLs across your site Set priority and linking rules for keywords Control the maximum number of auto links per page Exclude specific posts or pages from auto linking SEO-Focused Features Clean URL structures Automatic canonical URL management Search engine friendly redirects Integration with popular SEO plugins like Yoast SEO Performance Optimized Lightweight redirect handling Cached URL lookups Minimal database queries No .htaccess modifications required User Experience Enhancements Interactive onboarding tour for new users Link Health Score for visual feedback on link quality Quick Help sections with best practices Intuitive dashboard with clear feature explanations No Server Configuration Required The plugin requires no modifications to .htaccess or server settings, ensuring hassle-free setup and usage. Start managing your URLs with LinkMaster today and take control of your WordPress site’s URL structure for better SEO and user experience. For future updates and feedback, visit our website: getlinkmaster.com.

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.