WordPress Broken Link Finder

Every dead internal link on a WordPress site, with the pages that point at it — in one call. Broken internal links leak authority, waste crawl budget, and quietly tell visitors the site is unmaintained. Finding them by hand means clicking everything; this Actor reads the site's own public REST API, extracts every internal link its content references, verifies each one, and hands you the fix list.

What you get

A summary row:

{
  "ok": true,
  "site": "https://example.com",
  "pages_scanned": 60,
  "internal_links_found": 62,
  "links_checked": 60,
  "broken_count": 1,
  "broken_pct": 1.7
}

Plus one row per broken link:

{
  "url": "https://example.com/some-deleted-page/",
  "status": 404,
  "found_on": ["https://example.com/post-that-links-it/"]
}

found_on lists up to five referencing pages, so the repair is a targeted edit, not a site-wide hunt.

Input

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Root URL of the WordPress site
maxItemsPerType	integer	Cap on posts and pages scanned (each). Default 200
maxLinks	integer	Cap on distinct internal links verified. Default 300; the summary reports any skipped over the cap

How it works, honestly

• Content comes from the public WordPress REST API; link targets are verified with polite HEAD requests (GET fallback), same-host only.
• External links are not checked — this is an internal-integrity tool, by design.
• Links behind login walls will report their real status (401/403), which is usually what you want to know anyway.
• If the target is not a WordPress site, the run says so and you are not charged. Billing is per completed check.

Use cases

• Agencies and consultants: run before the client call; broken_pct with a fix list is instant credibility.
• Agents doing content maintenance: pipe found_on straight into an editing workflow.
• Migration verification: run before and after a redesign or domain move; the diff is your regression list.

Built and used daily by 1450 Enterprises — its first production run found a dead page on one of our own sites, which we then fixed.