About this plugin
Muri Link Tracker is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to help site owners maintain their SEO health and user experience by identifying broken links, analyzing redirect chains, and detecting affiliate patterns — with background jobs and configurable resource limits.
Muri Link Tracker scans links in the background and provides a dashboard for broken URLs, redirect loops and missing rel attributes. Throughput depends on your server, the size of the inventory and destination response times.
Key Features
- Background Processing — Scans run silently via Action Scheduler, so your admin stays responsive and your front-end stays fast.
- Three Scan Modes — Launch a Full Scan of all content, a Delta Scan (only posts modified since the last scan) to save resources, or a Reset Data to wipe and start fresh.
- Live Progress Tracking — Watch the scan progress in real time with a progress bar, counters, and the ability to cancel mid-scan.
- Affiliate Link Detection — Automatically identifies affiliate links across 14+ networks (Amazon, Awin, CJ, ShareASale, Impact, Rakuten, ClickBank, PartnerStack, and more), including URL patterns commonly used for internal affiliate redirects.
- Redirect Chain Analysis — Classifies every redirect as a single hop, a chain of 2+ hops, or a loop, so you know exactly what to fix first.
- Destination Health — Finds the links that still return 200 but no longer lead anywhere good: a domain that expired, one that changed hands and now serves casino or spam content, or a URL that quietly landed on a parking page. Shows you what it observed — the domain it lands on now, the page title it read, the anchor it was compared against — and leaves the decision to you. Computed entirely on your own server.
- Affiliate Networks Breakdown — See at a glance how many links belong to each affiliate program (Amazon, CJ, Awin…).
- Modern React Dashboard — Real-time statistics, quick filter tabs (All / Broken / Redirects / OK / Pending), inline editing, and bulk actions in a polished admin interface built with the WordPress design system.
- Smart Filtering & Search — Filter by status, link type, or affiliate network, and search across URLs and anchor text instantly.
- CSV Export — Export your full link inventory with active filters applied, perfect for reporting and auditing.
- Silent Link Editing — Fix or remove a link directly from the dashboard without bumping the post’s modified date, with native revisions where enabled.
- Configurable Resource Limits — Adjustable batch sizes, timeouts, request delays, and recheck intervals to fit shared hosting or dedicated servers.
- Scan Resume — Interrupted scans pick up exactly where they left off.
- Gutenberg-Aware — Extracts links from Gutenberg blocks with block-level metadata, including button blocks and navigation links.
What It Detects
- Broken links (4xx and 5xx HTTP status codes)
- Redirect chains and loops (single hop, multi-hop, infinite loops)
- Affiliate links via domain patterns, URL paths, query parameters, and rel="sponsored"
- Cloaked affiliate links (internal URLs that redirect to external affiliates)
- Missing rel attributes (nofollow, sponsored, ugc)
- Dead domains that no longer resolve, told apart from mere timeouts
- Destinations that changed hands: cross-domain redirects, parking and for-sale pages, pages whose identity changed since you linked them
- Timeout and SSL/connection errors
- Both internal and external links, categorized automatically
Privacy
Muri Link Tracker makes outbound HTTP requests to verify the status of links found in your content, and — when destination health is enabled — to read the title of the pages those links lead to. 0; +https://your-site-url), which includes your own site’s address so the remote servers being checked can identify the source of the request.
No third-party service is involved at any point. The plugin has no account, no API key and no cloud component: every check and every verdict is computed on your own server, and the only hosts contacted are the destinations your own content already links to. No personal user data is collected, stored, or transmitted to third parties.
Development
json. To rebuild the interface, run npm ci and npm run build from the plugin directory. Project development is also hosted on GitHub:
com/nicolasdiolez/muri-link-tracker