Hrefix
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Hrefix list table with broken links, warnings, redirects, source posts, and row actions.
Hrefix is a lightweight, 100% local broken link checker for WordPress.
No account. No cloud scanning service. No external API. Hrefix stores and checks links on your own WordPress site using WP-Cron and the WordPress HTTP API.
Popular alternatives moved scanning to hosted cloud services that require accounts. Hrefix keeps the workflow inside WordPress.
Features:
- Extracts links from published posts, pages, and public custom post types.
- Scans
<a href>and<img src>values. - Checks links in small WP-Cron batches.
- Uses HEAD requests with GET fallback for servers that reject HEAD.
- Flags broken links, redirects, and warning states.
- Treats 429 responses and timeouts as warnings until repeated failures.
- Lets you recheck, edit, unlink, or dismiss links.
- Replaces edited URLs in source post content.
- Removes links while preserving anchor text.
- Suggests similar published permalinks for broken internal links.
- Creates simple local 301 redirects for broken internal URLs.
- Includes a Redirects tab for manual add/delete.
- Includes a Dashboard widget with broken/warning counts.
- Settings for batch size, post types, exclusions, and external-link checking.
Everything in the free plugin is functional. There is no locked trialware code.