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Link Checker · Version history

Link Checker changelog and version history

Latest version
1.19.1
Aug 17, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
47
since 2015
In the last year
2
about one every 76 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 201514 releases
  • 20163 releases
  • 201818 releases
  • 20193 releases
  • 20201 release
  • 20211 release
  • 20224 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Link Checker 1.19.1Latest

    • Release Date – 17th August, 2026
    • Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

  2. Link Checker 1.19.0

    • Release Date – 2nd June, 2026
    • WordPress 7 compatibility update while keeping WordPress 4.7 as the minimum supported version.
    • Hardened settings sanitization, admin AJAX handling, and bundled jQuery compatibility for current WordPress/PHP versions.
    • Removed outdated out-of-service notice.
    • Restored no-token/free-version usage with an admin notice that explains the limits.

20231 release

  1. Link Checker 1.18.7

    • Release Date – 14th January, 2023
    • Updated readme.

20224 releases

  1. Link Checker 1.18.6

    • Release Date – 24th October, 2022
    • Added paywall.

  2. Link Checker 1.18.5

    • Release Date – 1st August, 2022
    • Changed name.

  3. Link Checker 1.18.4

    • Release Date – 1st August, 2022
    • Updated readme.

  4. Link Checker 1.18.3

    • Release Date – 1st August, 2022
    • Added paid version info.
    • Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

20211 release

  1. Link Checker 1.18.2

    • Release Date – 2nd August, 2021
    • Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

20201 release

  1. Link Checker 1.18.1

    • Release Date – 19st October, 2020
    • Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

20193 releases

  1. Link Checker 1.18.0

    • Release Date – 30st June, 2019
    • Added selectable interval (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, every 30 days) to scheduler.
    • Added Mark all with same status code and domain as working function.
    • Improved documentation/glossary.

  2. Link Checker 1.17.0

    • Release Date – 22st March, 2019
    • Added form login support.
    • Fixed a security vulnerability (XSS).

  3. Link Checker 1.16.2

    • Release Date – 1st March, 2019
    • Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

201818 releases

  1. Link Checker 1.16.1

    • Release Date – 20th December, 2018
    • Bugfix for broken CSV download in Firefox.

  2. Link Checker 1.16.0

    • Release Date – 21th September, 2018
    • Show edit link for URLs that could be assigned to a post.
    • Improved status codes page.
    • Improved Pro version page.
    • Bugfix: Reset retries count before every check.
    • Crawler: Performance optimizations and some bug fixes.

  3. Link Checker 1.15.1

    • Release Date – 21th July, 2018
    • Force CSS reload because an old version is cached for users of older versions.

  4. Link Checker 1.15.0

    • Release Date – 21th July, 2018
    • Export result as CSV file for users of the Pro version.
    • Result is saved on server for customers of the Pro version. So the same result can be downloaded by multiple users or with multiple browsers.
    • Added hint how to change scheduler email address.

  5. Link Checker 1.14.0

    • Release Date – 15th July, 2018
    • Added message with recommendations for Wordfence users.
    • Result from cache is loaded even if a check is currently running.
    • Old result is not cleared anymore when a new check is started, but just when the new check has finished.
    • Split up the ‘Progress and Stats’ tab in two separate tabs.
    • Added status code and response text to error message.
    • Bugfix: Handle failed IsRunning request.

  6. Link Checker 1.13.0

    • Release Date – 12th May, 2018
    • Added a feedback form.

  7. Link Checker 1.12.1

    • Release Date – 8th May, 2018
    • Bugfix: Start button was not shown in some cases.

  8. Link Checker 1.12.0

    • Release Date – 8th May, 2018
    • New ‘Mark as fixed on all pages’ button.
    • Added Polylang integration.
    • Probably also works with WPML.
    • Compression of results before they get stored in browser cache.
    • Moved scheduler to tab in main view.

  9. Link Checker 1.11.0

    • Release Date – 22th April, 2018
    • Redesigned user interface.
    • Pagination.
    • All-in-one (links, images, videos, working redirects, unhandled resources) result view.
    • Performance of user interface was improved so that it’s now possible to view result tables with more than 100’000 broken links or redirects.
    • Use IndexedDB instead of localStorage to store result so that the result set size is not limited to about 5 MB anymore.

  10. Link Checker 1.10.0

    • Release Date – 19th April, 2018
    • Auto-resume support if the Link Checker gets opened and a check is already running on the server.
    • Implemented a warning for high crawl-delays.
    • Added a stop button to stop the current check.
    • Implemented protection for check hijacking if token is used.

  11. Link Checker 1.9.1

    • Release Date – 17th April, 2018
    • Fixed redirect stats.

  12. Link Checker 1.9.0

    • Release Date – 17th April, 2018
    • Highlighting of redirects.
    • Added option to show working redirects.
    • Has to be enabled in the settings.
    • Fixed a conflict of the settings page with the settings page of the Broken Link Checker plugin.

  13. Link Checker 1.8.0

    • Release Date – 9th April, 2018
    • Results are saved now and don’t get discarded when leaving the Link Checker anymore.
    • Improved navigation with tabs.
    • More detailed stats.
    • Crawler
    • Added status code 603 (Unknown authority error) with explanation.
    • Added cookie support.

  14. Link Checker 1.7.0

  15. Link Checker 1.6.0

  16. Link Checker 1.5.1

  17. Link Checker 1.5.0

  18. Link Checker 1.4.1

20163 releases

  1. Link Checker 1.4.0

  2. Link Checker 1.3.0

  3. Link Checker 1.2.1

201514 releases

  1. Link Checker 1.2.0

  2. Link Checker 1.1.3

  3. Link Checker 1.1.2

  4. Link Checker 1.1.1

  5. Link Checker 1.1.0

  6. Link Checker 1.0.4

  7. Link Checker 1.0.3

  8. Link Checker 1.0.2

  9. Link Checker 1.0.1

  10. Link Checker 1.0.0

  11. Link Checker 1.0.0-rc.1

  12. Link Checker 1.0.0-beta.3

  13. Link Checker 1.0.0-beta.2

  14. Link Checker 1.0.0-beta.1

Questions about Link Checker’s releases

What is the latest version of Link Checker?

1.19.1, released on Aug 17, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Link Checker updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 76 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from August 2015.

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