Very simply, uses JavaScript to remove broken images from page display.
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.
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.
What’s with the misleading title?
The “Remove Broken Images” plugin does NOT remove broken images! W..
Excellent plugin
This plugin is a lifesaver. Cant wait for v2 to remove the images. Keep up the good work fellas!
Removed the broken links I wanted to remove perfectly. Thank You
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
meta tags for og:image and twitter:image if they match the URL of an image the plugin is removing from the page content.R34RBI class.…and 5 more changes
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