Broken links WordPress: the free AIFORYA detection plugin

Spot and fix broken links before your visitors do.

AIFORYA Link Checker scans the links in your published content and flags those that no longer respond (404 errors, unavailable servers). You get a clear report, with a direct link to each piece of content to fix. No API key, no third-party service, no quota — and free of charge, with no time limit.

• Self-contained: no API key, no account, no external platform.
• Lightweight: batch checking, in the background, without slowing down your site.
• Actionable: every broken link comes with its error code and direct access to the content.

Why monitor your links?

The web is always shifting: the pages you cite move, disappear or go down. Over time, a site accumulates dead links without anyone noticing. Yet a broken link frustrates your visitors and sends a poor signal to search engines, which read it as a poorly maintained site.

Many link-checking plugins go through an online service (with an account, a quota and the transmission of your content) or keep the site permanently heavier. AIFORYA Link Checker stays self-contained and lean: batch checking, in the background, with adjustable limits to spare your server.

What the plugin does

• Scheduled scan — automatic daily or weekly checking, running in the background.
• On-demand scan — run an immediate check in one click.
• Clear report — a list of broken links with the error code and a direct link to the content to fix.
• Adjustable limits — number of links checked per pass and timeout, to stay light on your server.

How links are checked (in full transparency)

To find out whether a link works, the plugin has to query the address in question: it sends an HTTP request to the URL present in your content and reads the response code. These requests target only the addresses you have published yourself; no personal data is transmitted, only the HTTP response code is kept, and no API key is required. This is the normal and necessary way any link checker works: you have to "knock on the door" of each link to find out whether it still responds.

How it does better than competing free plugins

	AIFORYA Link Checker	Common free plugins
How it works	Self-contained, on your server	Frequently an online service (account required)
Your content	Not sent to a platform	Often sent to a third-party service
Impact on the site	Batch checking, adjustable limits	Sometimes a heavy continuous scan
Report	Error code + direct link to fix	Often basic in the free version
API key / account / quota	None	Frequent

Install in 2 minutes

1. Download the plugin here (or install it from WordPress.org).
2. Activate it from the Plugins menu.
3. Open the AIFORYA Link Checker menu, choose the frequency and the content to scan in the Settings tab.

Run a first scan from the Links tab, then review the report and fix the flagged links.