Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Broken Link Checker
Active installs500,000+ rounded
Current authorWPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release26 days ago 13 Oct 2026
Support8 / 8 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record168
Rating3.8 /5 · 605
Added to directory08 Oct 2007
Requires WP6.2
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| whiteshadow | 122 | 08 Oct 2007 | 30 Apr 2015 |
| freediver | 9 | 05 Aug 2015 | 20 Mar 2019 |
| jdailey | 1 | 03 Dec 2019 | 03 Dec 2019 |
| vanyukov | 4 | 02 Jan 2020 | 18 Jul 2022 |
| bplv | 2 | 05 Feb 2020 | 23 Mar 2020 |
| ivanic | 1 | 24 Aug 2020 | 24 Aug 2020 |
| panoslyrakis | 25 | 17 Aug 2022 | 07 Aug 2026 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Very widely adopted: 500,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
9,274 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
11 Sep 2026peak 133,826/day31 Oct 2026
5 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 3.2 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 3.8 (2 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are running below the lifetime figure, which an average built over years would hide.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 18 Oct | 19 Oct | 20 Oct | 21 Oct | 22 Oct | 23 Oct | 24 Oct | 25 Oct | 26 Oct | 27 Oct | 28 Oct | 29 Oct | 30 Oct | 31 Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 6,219 | 11,331 | 9,019 | 15,504 | 14,822 | 0 | 13,102 | 0 | 5,082 | 7,728 | 9,284 | 24,529 | 5,193 |
| Ratings total | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 604 | 605 | 605 |
| Threads resolved | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (500,000+) · version (2.4.15) · support threads (8)
91 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory19 years ago 08 Oct 2007
Requires WP6.2
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 13 Oct 2026, 27 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 8 of 8 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins, 8 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 13 Oct 202626 days agoVersion 2.4.15 released
- 31 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.4.14.1 released
- 24 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.4.14 released
- 13 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.13 released
- 07 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.11 released
- 06 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.10 released
- 05 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.9 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoFirst observed by PluginsPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 23 May 20266 months agoVersion 2.4.8 released
- 20 Nov 202512 months agoVersion 2.4.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 22 May 202518 months agoVersion 2.4.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 21 May 202518 months agoVersion 2.4.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 14 May 202518 months agoVersion 2.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 05 May 202518 months agoVersion 2.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 02 Dec 202423 months agoVersion 2.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 30 Sep 20242 years agoVersion 2.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 18 Sep 20242 years agoVersion 2.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 26 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 2.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 17 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 28 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 20 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 08 Oct 200719 years ago148 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 08 Oct 2007 and 31 Aug 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 08 Oct 200719 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
Media coverage
Writing about this plugin elsewhere, collected by this registry. The links go to the sources; what they claim is theirs.
- 02 Sep 2026 · CVE-2026-75528: Stored Cross-Site Scripting in wpmudev Broken Link CheckerOffSeq Threat Radar
- 19 Aug 2026 · CVE-2026-18937: Broken Link Checker Code Injection (CVSS 9)Strix
- 26 Mar 2026 · Broken Link Checker < 2.4.8 – Editor+ SQL Injection (CVE-2026-39466)WPScan
- 07 Nov 2019 · New Home for Broken Link Checker PluginManageWP
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 26 days ago (13 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 500,000+ active installs.
- It carries 605 ratings, averaging 3.8 out of 5.
- 8 of 8 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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