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Getting started

1. Install and activate​

Install PlugUpp Link & Image Health Audit from the WordPress.org plugin directory (Plugins > Add New), or upload the ZIP under Plugins > Add New > Upload, then activate it. A new Link Health menu appears in the WordPress admin sidebar.

2. Run your first scan​

Click Scan now. The plugin renders each of your pages the way a visitor's browser would, collects every link and image they contain, and then checks each one - internal links against your own site, external links over HTTP. You can leave the page; the scan continues in the background.

The free plugin scans all of your pages and posts. In Settings you can also include custom post types and WooCommerce products, and unpublished content (drafts, scheduled, pending and private) - all free, and off by default. Paid plans add scheduled scans, change detection, email reports, the URL Parameter Learning Engine, and deeper checks.

3. Review the results​

Results are shown two ways, with a colour-coded summary of Issues, Warnings and Notices across the top:

  • By URL - every unique link, image and resource, with its verdict: broken, an SSL or certificate problem, a redirect, "blocked, not broken", or OK. Each row shows how many of your pages use that URL.
  • By page - every scanned page, with its own Issues, Warnings and Notices counts, so you can find the pages that need the most attention.

Both views are sorted worst-first. Open any finding to see the pages it appears on, jump to the live page or the editor, or view the page source with the offending link or image highlighted.

See Reviewing your results for the full tour of the views, the verdicts and the finding details.

4. Fine-tune what gets scanned​

The PlugUpp Link & Image Health Audit settings page

  • Exclude pages you do not need to scan - from the row actions, the Exclusions screen, or in bulk from the standard Posts and Pages screens. Paid plans can also auto-exclude pages by rule. See Excluding content.
  • Ignore an individual URL from its finding; it stays visible but stops counting.
  • URL parameters - cache-busters and tracking tags (like ver and utm_source) are ignored so the same resource is not checked as many different URLs. The common ones are pre-filled; add your own, or let the Premium Learning Engine suggest them from your scans.
  • Settings also lets you choose which content types are scanned (posts, pages, custom post types, WooCommerce products and unpublished content - all free), tune scan politeness (timeouts and concurrency), configure scheduled scans and email reports (paid), and view the log.

Password-protected content is never scanned. Unpublished content (drafts, scheduled, pending and private) is skipped by default; switch on Unpublished content in Settings to include it - it is rendered privately for the scan only and never shown to visitors.