LinkTenderBroken link checker for WordPress that runs on your own server.
No account, no API key, no cloud quota. LinkTender checks every link and image from your site in gentle background batches, tells bot protection apart from real breakage, and lets you fix links everywhere they appear in one click.
No outgoing requests on activation. Nothing is checked until you click Start checking links, and then only the links themselves are contacted, from your server.
The free plugin does the core job properly
Your server, your data
Links are checked from your own site. Nothing is sent to us or any cloud service, there are no update checks or tracking in the free plugin, and there is no link limit.
Bot-blocked links marked Unverified
Cloudflare challenges, firewalls, 401/403/429 answers, Amazon's captcha page and LinkedIn's 999 are shown as Unverified, not broken. Timeouts and server errors are retried over 24 hours before a link is called broken.
Gentle on big sites
Time-boxed, locked background batches; a few links at a time on different domains. Tested on 20,000 posts and 90,000+ unique links with about 1,300 queries and 65 MB per batch.
Finds links everywhere
Posts, pages and custom post types, Gutenberg blocks, Elementor data, shortcode builders such as Divi and WPBakery, custom fields (including ACF), comments, menus, widgets, excerpts, images, iframes, video and audio. (Comments and shortcode builders from version 1.1.)
Fix in one click
Edit a URL everywhere it appears, unlink while keeping the text, use the final URL of a redirect, recheck, mark as fine or ignore a domain. Edits create normal WordPress revisions.
Easy switch
Coming from Broken Link Checker? Import your exclusions, timing, front-end options and dismissed links. How to switch.
LinkTender Pro: for sites where links earn money
A separate add-on plugin that extends the free plugin. Everything still runs on your server.
Email reports
Daily or weekly reports to any addresses: what broke since last time, every broken link with where it is, and product links that stopped earning. Send only when there is something to report.
Product & affiliate links
Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart and other store pages often still load after a product is gone. LinkTender Pro reads the page and flags products that are removed, discontinued, unavailable or out of stock, and product links that now land on the store's home or search page.
Redirect clean-up
Update every redirecting link to its final address in one go, with a preview first. Affiliate and tracking links, cloaked links (/go/, /recommends/) and links ending on login pages are never touched. Only permanent redirects by default.
CSV export
Export any view or a selection, with status, reason, final URL and every place a link appears, ready for a spreadsheet or a client report. Spreadsheet formulas are neutralised.
WP-CLI
wp linktender scan | check | list | export | fix-redirects | report. Run checks from cron, script exports, clean up redirects on staging first.
Multisite
One network activation covers every site. Network overview of broken links per site, network-wide CSV export and rescan.
How it compares
The two best-known alternatives are good plugins with a different approach: both offer cloud scanning tied to an account with their company. LinkTender keeps everything on your server and adds product-page checks for affiliate sites. Read the fair, side-by-side comparisons: