This Plugin filters Links to broken pages.
As of April 2026, Affilipus: Filter Broken Links is a WordPress filter plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: HUSKY – Products Filter Professional….
This plugin filters links to broken pages. If a link returns a 404 tha Link is filtered from the content.
The Link-Text stays and is wrapped in a span, so you can style broken links if you want.
The Links are checked every 24 hours.
If you update a Post the Links in the post will be rechecked automatically.
Please be aware that this can cause some additional loading time on the first page load as the plugin is fetching the Links and checks if the sites are available.
Please let us know about features you would like to see in future releases!
How to use
Just install the Plugin, the rest is magic.
| WordPress | 4.0.0+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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