Limited-Time Offer

Get Extra 20% off on FullCharge Yearly Plan — available for first 10 users only. Don’t miss out! 🚀

TrackWP

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer · Version history

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer changelog and version history

Latest version
1.5.0
Oct 20, 2026 (21 days ago)
Releases
11
since 2025
In the last year
8
about one every 48 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20255 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.5.0Latest

    • Security fixes around the archive.org credentials, the link check endpoint and admin access. See the upgrade notice.
    • Adds a “Last Archived” column to the posts list, enabled from Screen Options.
    • Now finds links inside shortcodes, dynamic blocks and international URLs, which were previously skipped.
    • Fix: a stray line break at the end of Classic Editor posts.
    • Fix: the auto archiver could push back its own queue and never run.
    • Fix: Advanced Settings links shown to editors who cannot open it.
    • Fix: Advanced Settings Link Icon row, post exclusion search and “%20” in link exclusion rules.
    • Fix: Dashboard broken link count and onboarding with drafts or excluded posts.
    • Fix: more broken link formats are now replaced, including on pages that list posts.
    • The front end now checks at most 2 links at a time.
    • Fix: links on sites that block the link checker (401, 403, 429 or 503) are no longer marked broken or replaced, and are flagged in the Links table instead.
    • Redirects (300 to 308) no longer count as a failed check.
    • medium.com, nytimes.com, udemy.com, kickstarter.com, player.fm, washingtonpost.com, reuters.com and perplexity.ai are added to the built-in exclusion list.
    • Various fixes to the links report, link checking and the settings screen.
    • Performance and accessibility improvements throughout the admin.
    • Now requires MySQL 5.7 or MariaDB 10.2, checked on install.

  2. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.4.2

    • Fix: Manually excluded links sometimes revert to unexcluded and can still be run through the link checker process. Now fully respects manual exclusions.

  3. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.4.1

    • Fix: link data span now survives themes that wrap post content in wp_kses_post (previously the JSON could leak as visible text on category and archive templates).

  4. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.4.0

    • Changes to how we store link information in posts, now uses an escaped <script> tag.
    • Move the frontend link checker from Ajax-driven to REST.
    • Improvements to link table queries for better memory usage.
    • Various small UI fixes.
    • Added optional link icon displayed next to fixed links on the frontend, with before/after positioning and third-party extensibility via the iawmlf_link_icons filter.

  5. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.3.6

    • Allows posts to be selected to be excluded from link fixing and/or auto archiving.
    • Improves cleanup of passed attempts to create and verify snapshots
    • Adds an Archive.org donation notice.
    • Improves translatable strings for betting internationalisation.

  6. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.3.5

    • Minor tweak to how we log errors in snapshot creation process.
    • Improvement on how link stats are generated.
    • Casts all archived urls to https://, can be disabled in settings.
    • Improvements to how we handle cancelled scan own post actions, to prevent flooding database with cancelled jobs.

20255 releases

  1. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.3.4

    • Minor UI tweaks and changes
    • Default check intervals and total count of broken pages required to trigger redirection lowered.
    • Onboarding process streamlined.

  2. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.3.3

    • Fixes bug where the links and scripts were loaded even if set to do nothing
    • Move to custom WP prefixed URLs
    • Fixes various issues with the dashboard icons and counts
    • Better handling of authentication issues and notices
    • Detect staging sites and prevent auto archiving from running.
    • Fixes bug where a missing auto archiving database option can result in posts still be indexed.

  3. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.3.2

    • Bugfix

  4. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.3.1

    • Makes various UI and UX changes around icons, tool tips and labels.
    • Also fixes a few minor bugs regarding the settings and wizard flows.

  5. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer 1.3.0

    • Initial public release.
    • Note: All versions prior to 1.3.0 were not publicly released.

Questions about Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer’s releases

What is the latest version of Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer?

1.5.0, released on Oct 20, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer updated?

8 releases in the last year, about one every 48 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2025.

Know when your rivals ship

Track your plugin and its rivals: TrackWP sees each new release in the nightly snapshot and alerts you, with what it did to their rank.

Start free

Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.