Best broken plugins for WordPress
The most popular broken plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Broken Link Notifier leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Replace Broken Images (1K+) and Save Post. Check Links. (100+). All 7 plugins tagged “broken” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 broken plugins
- 1.
Broken Link NotifierThe most installed broken plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 14 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Replace Broken Images1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 3.
Save Post. Check Links.100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Redirect 404 to parent60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 5.
fraew Broken Media Inspector10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
- 6.
WP-LinkCheck10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.00.
- 7.
Checker youtube videosFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago.
All 7 plugins tagged “broken”
Broken Link Notifier
Up in the last 7 days:21#5,495by PluginRx1 month ago
Get notifications when a visitor loads a page with broken links
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(14)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Replace Broken Images
Down in the last 7 days:167#6,676by Kiet Huynh4 months ago
Alternate image with a default image if source image is not found on posts and pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Save Post. Check Links.
Up in the last 7 days:43#14,566by pluginkollektiv7 months ago
Verifies URLs of links in your content are reachable when saving a post in WordPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Redirect 404 to parent
Down in the last 7 days:33#19,708by Moove Agency5 months ago
This plugin helps you redirect any 404 request to the parent URL.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
fraew Broken Media Inspector
Up in the last 7 days:31,366#34,719by Chris Andrews3 months ago
Find broken images and where they're used, and clean up orphaned files in your uploads folder. Fast, free, no upsells.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
WP-LinkCheck
#46,036by Cheung Tat Ming16 years ago
WP-LinkCheck is a lightweight plugin ability to check all image sources are broken inside your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
Checker youtube videos
Down in the last 7 days:7,578#61,433by egorpetrov9 years ago
This plugin finds youtube video ids in posts, pages and WooCommerce products and check - does this videos still available.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day