A Very simple plugin for editors. It will outline any invalid links upon saving the post.
As of April 2026, Validate Link is a WordPress Content validator plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns.
The idea of this plugin is coming from my work.
I’ve been assigned a lot tasks for cleaning broken links.
Which is so bored.
Editors are lack of basic HTML skills, they always tried to insert links like such:
Apprently, they will finally result in
So this plugin is to display a warning message in WordPress dashboard,
in case there is such invalid URLs in post content.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
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