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Remove Broken Images

Very simply, uses JavaScript to remove broken images from page display.

By Room 34 Creative Services, LLC·Remove·Free
4(4 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Remove Broken Images is a WordPress remove plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 22% this week. Top alternative: Hide/Remove Metadata.

4/54 reviews
1.0K+active installs
14K+total downloads
5 yearssince 2021

Overview

This is an extremely simple plugin that uses jQuery to remove broken images from displaying on your pages.

Note that version 1 does not alter any content in the database, nor does it remove the image tags from the initial HTML output of the page, so it doesn’t stop 404 errors, nor does it benefit SEO or PageSpeed scores. It does, however, prevent the dreaded “broken image” icon from appearing in your pages, and in most cases it will remove the blank space some browsers allocate for images as they are loading.

Coming in version 2: We’ll be adding an admin tool to let you see a list of posts and pages containing broken images, along with a tool to automatically remove their img tags from the database.

Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

44 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Change your Title
by emj99·2 weeks ago·1 reply

What’s with the misleading title?

The “Remove Broken Images” plugin does NOT remove broken images! W..

  • This topic was modified 1 week, 5 days ago by emj99.
Excellent plugin
by David·1 year ago

Excellent plugin

Excellent plugin
by vexxy·2 years ago

This plugin is a lifesaver. Cant wait for v2 to remove the images. Keep up the good work fellas!

Works Perfectly
by branchd85·3 years ago

Removed the broken links I wanted to remove perfectly. Thank You

Download Trends

Today: 7Yesterday: 10This week: 56Period total: 4K

Compatibility

WordPress4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.5
83.0%
v1.3
14.5%
v1.4
2.5%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.5.0 – 2024.10.04

  • Features:
    • Added logic to remove SEO meta tags for og:image and twitter:image if they match the URL of an image the plugin is removing from the page content.
    • Expanded logic from 1.4.1 by adding a check for the Block Editor page.
  • Development:
    • Refactored code into R34RBI class.

    …and 5 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Room 34 Creative Services, LLCRoom 34 Creative Services, LLC
Plugin Info
Version
1.5.0-beta-1
Last Updated
Oct 4, 2024
WP Requires
4.9+
Tested Up To
6.7.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
14K+
Added
Nov 22, 2021
Business
Free

Tags

removebroken imagesmedia librarydeleted imagesmissing images

Developer

R
Room 34 Creative Services, LLC
10 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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