Broken links are another common problem in many sites. A link is considered broken when the URL is changed or the resource is deleted. Once the user visits such a link, the 404 page not found error will be displayed. Apart from creating a negative experience in the users' minds, it will affect the search engine ranking. In WordPress, links can be broken easily by changing the Permalink structure without proper knowledge.
The process of manually identifying broken links is highly time-consuming and may be an impractical task on large sites with lots of content and internal linking. So, we need to automate the process of finding broken links. We can use the Broken Link Checker plugin to automatically check broken links on posts, pages, and comments. The plugin also provides features for blocking search engines from following the...