Rating: 1 star

The free version is useless.

Rating: 5 stars

The URL limit was reached. The Link Checker has not checked your whole website. You can buy a token for the Link Checker Professional to check up to 500’000 URLs.
Thank you for wasting my time !

Rating: 1 star

One star is a harsh verdict, I admit that. Is the plugin that bad? Honestly, I don’t know. The limit of 500 urls does not allow for any further tests. It’s simple as that. Other have said this before, and I fully aggree: A free plugin should be useful, even if the author offers a PRO version of it.

In addition to that, The results do not convince me at all. The plugin performed the test in less than 5 minutes. It found more than 21000 links and around 300 dead links. That is impressive. I didn’t even know that we have so many links. Well, we don’t have that many links. A quick check revealed that the plugin counts the very same dead link in the footer for each and every page. Seriously?

So, I rate this plugin one star for really not being more than a trial version of the PRO. This would be ok on a commercial website, but should not be offered in the WordPress repository.

Rating: 1 star

the 500 links limit is too little for any website.

Rating: 1 star

EDITED REVIEW: 2021.03.10
The free plugin works, but stops before it can finish being useful. 500 links is simply not enough for a free version. It doesn’t provide a free tier that’s functional for most medium-sized websites. You end up having to buy it to actually use it. That makes this more of an advertisement than an actual plugin. I’m using a different plugin.

EDITED 2021.03.11
See my reply dated today.

• EDIT: The free plugin only checks 500 links. This is entirely useless, even for medium-sized sites.
• EDIT: Plugin registration consists of link allotments, with the minimum being 25K links checked in one go for ~50 Euros. It goes up drastically from there because Marco’s server is the one doing the crawling.
• Most target websites are small, hosted on huge commercial properties optimized for WordPress. Additionally, crawling the local site may not be as optimal as scraping each post’s content field for links and storing results locally.
• My server should be the one doing the work. If my server is doing the work, you can’t expect me to pay by the link for a service my server is doing. Period.
• An example of a per unit subscription model that works is Mailchimp. Their servers are doing the work in a trusted secure environment so that my web host box doesn’t become a shadow spambot. Offloading that service to mailchimp is not sketchy, and their terms are more than generous for small to mid-sized website admins, with a free tier that is actually commodious. That’s not what’s happening with this plugin.
• It checks every link on every page, even footer links that repeat across the entire site, so if you have a link like “theme created by…”, that link counts on every page against your priced link count. Absurd.
• Worse, it counts a number of known valid links as broken.
• WordPress plugins in the .org library should offer a reasonable modicum of usefulness out of the gate. It should not seem hampered to the site admin. The pro version should offer additional capabilities that make the free plugin seem more complete. This plugin offers only a glimpse of what the paid plugin might do if you are willing to pay 45 euros minimum to check 25K links. You want to check more links? Buy more tokens.
• EDIT: Given the Author’s (Marco Beierer) balanced response, I’ll say this would better serve the WP community and Marco himself by:

• scraping post content directly for links rather than crawling,
• removing the tier caps — including for the free version — and then
• Price the pro version between $50 and $100 for a single-tier paid version that also includes image and youtube link checking.
• Also for the pro version, add the ability to check all site menu links, sidebar/footer/widget links, post content for custom post-type links, custom field links, etc.

• This would give the expected additional capability along with unrestricted link checking found in the free version.

A great plugin makes the free-plugin adopter feel like they’re getting such a bargain they feel guilty for not supporting the plugin with either a donation or an upgrade to the pro version.

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Rating: 5 stars

Excellent Links plugin for checking and repairing. It helps me a lot. Added new features in recent months. Better than others, I recommend it.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by ekofan.

Rating: 1 star

Verify just 500 link and very expensive the professional version.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by cleciomayrink.

Rating: 1 star

Works but very limited with free version and so expensive for “pro”.
=> uninstall

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Rating: 1 star

The lite one is useless, and the professional hasn’t a price ( nothing to guide about), depends on site size, I think.
Very disappointed.

Rating: 5 stars

Initial impressions after download and a test are very good.

Straightforward interface, quick scan and understandable results window.

Rating: 2 stars

While many features look promising, this can only be run on a live website.

This lends to “cowboy coding”, or possibly breaking a live website.

Thus it is not useful when making big changes to one’s website, such as if you want to change thumbnail image sizes. In this case you might need to “break” the website by first regenerating thumbnails, then “fix” it by updating the newly broken links with th eupdated image url’s.

However for many people, and many other use cases, this plugin could work well.
For example, if your live website already has broken links, and you just want to clean them up, it would be fine.
And if you don’t use a dev server ever, then this restriction will not impact you whatsoever.
Finally, if you do your dev work on a live dev server, accessible to other websites, then this could also be a great plugin you you!!

Rating: 3 stars

I created a new website with all links in https and all the plugins tell me is: The check of your website failed with the error: URL not reachable.

I heard it is maybe an server issue and not a issue of the plugin. I don’t know, but I give the plugin 3 stars for the hours of programming.

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Rating: 1 star

Video check is paid

Rating: 3 stars

Unlike the other link fixing plugins I tried, this one had very helpful error codes that told me why the scan was not working – first telling me to turn of one of my plugins and then to change my robots.txt file.

The scan ran, but was limited without paying. I wouldn’t have minded paying, however, unfortunately the results weren’t that useful. This is because:

1) It lists category and tag archives as pages (so you have a broken link in a post then in every category archive that post shows up in)
2) You still have to manually go into the post/page and change the broken link (other plugins give you 1 click solutions)

It basically gives you the same thing as you get from any other link scanning tool (Moz, screaming frog, etc) but in WordPress. What I needed is a tool to speed up the process of fixing all the links I have in my download of broken from Moz, and this does not do that.

However, I gave it 3 starts because hopefully it will help me run the other plugins which allow me to fix links more quickly!

Rating: 1 star

The scan had taken hours then quit. Every single link on my website is not 404. It also didn’t even scan past the first page.
Before I installed this there was nothing about having to pay for it. I can get many other free plugins to do the same job as this one.

Rating: 3 stars

Every time this plugin check first my affiliate and social link and tell me i must buy pro for more, then not useful for me.

But free version can be good for website without affiliate and social link.

Rating: 5 stars

This plugin works well on my website. Check the link broken, give results. The result is the article on the website. No broken links because all of them have been redirected. All are online. I recommend. However, for some reason it doesn’t work. Please check how much percent of your website is uptime. Please contact the server service provider for inspection.

Rating: 5 stars

As far as I can tell from www.remarpro.com, this is the only link checker that is up-to-date. So it is immediately my first choice.

On top of that it is easy to use, powerful and reliable. I recommend it without hesitation.

Rating: 1 star

Hi
this is the actual error:

The check of your website failed with the error:
website not reachable.

But the website is reachable, no maintenance mode, no directory protection.
It is simply reachable, online, visible, accessable…

Rating: 5 stars

Marco is very responsive for enhancement requests. I needed a way to look at the broken link report in Excel to manage a large number of fixes. Marco add a CSV export that works exactly as I needed it to… very responsive!

Rating: 4 stars

Works fine, but it’s simple for me. I miss especially a feature allowing editing/removing links directly from a list of broken links without opening particular pages. I’ll stick with Broken Link Checker.

• This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by toby5.

Rating: 5 stars

There are a few links that it is showing weird things for – they all work, but your program said something is wrong.

However, there were a few thinks that were broken that this program helped me out with and that is worth 5*, I was having a hard time trying to find where my problems where.

Thanks!!!

Rating: 5 stars

I’m a non-techie working to repair broken links. Marco took the time to explain thinks to me in a non-technical way and got me off to a great start.
He’s very professional and was quick to respond.
I’m still trying to figure out broken links, but working with Marco was a great start.

Rating: 5 stars

A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at bringing my website up to PHP 7 as this version of PHP uses less processor and memory on the web hosting server. PHP 7 is basically better code. The existing plugin for checking links wasn’t PHP 7 compliant and was giving warnings. So I looked about for another plugin.

I came across the Link Checker plugin. I emailed Marco Beierer who is the developer of the plugin. He answered all my questions so I went with it. I have a large website so I was looking at the paid version which is very reasonable.

Also, my website has a lot of YouTube links so this Link Plugin also checked these embedded links.

Another good point when it comes to picking a plugin is to see when it was last updated. This Link Checker plugin is right up to date.

The plugin is light, quick and works like a dream. I also get an daily email after the Link Checker has scanned my pages and posts.

I am very happy with this plugin and also with the customer service from Marco.

My website is now running on PHP 7 and is nice and fast now.

Rating: 5 stars

Once you leave the admin page listing the broken links they disappear, you have to scan again to get the list.
Scheduling is a paid extra.

Rating: 1 star

I just ran this on my site and the only ‘broken’ link it found, on all pages it ‘checked’ was to my LinkedIn page. I copied and pasted said link into my browser and there’s nothing wrong as far as I can see! Code was 999, whatever that means. Have removed the plugin.

Rating: 5 stars

LOVE this tool! It runs daily and tells me when there is broken link so I can go fix it. I don’t get a lot of them but when I do this is great to know its being checked daily so I don’t leave dead links out there. When I get a dead link, its easy to find out what is going on by just going to my WordPress Dashboard and looking at the results. I can then go fix the link that is down and no issues. If you have links on your site you NEED this plugin!

Rating: 5 stars

This plugin has picked up broken links that other link checkers have missed. Recent changes to my site caused some issues with the plugin, but the plugin author was extremely helpful and fixed it promptly.

Rating: 1 star

Gave me an error when I tried to run it.

Rating: 5 stars

I’ve always used another link checker and found it lacking in many ways. This one is great, gives you lots of information so you can easily decide what to do about the broken links.