WordPress Tool

Hardlink Finder

Find hard-coded links before they break your live site.

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Why he built it

Tool I built to find hard-coded links in WordPress websites without leaving the dashboard

When you build a site on a dev server or move it from an old site, full URLs get left behind in the content. Finding them is a manual process. This plugin scans your posts and pages for links pointing at the dev site, a staging host, the old site or the live domain. It shows you exactly where each one is, the relative URL it should be, and takes you straight to it. It only reports, so it never changes your content.

What it helps with

Catch dev links before launch

Find links pointing at the dev site before they break on the live site.

Clean up after a migration

Spot old-site files and domains still sitting in your content.

Go straight to the problem

See the page, the exact field and the surrounding text for every link.

Keep links relative

Get the relative URL each hard link should be, ready to paste.

Key Features

Complete content scanning

Scans posts and pages (published, scheduled, draft, pending and private), including content, excerpts, page builder data and custom fields like ACF.

Smart link detection

Detects the dev site automatically, flags staging and local hosts, and catches old domains you list. It also finds JSON-escaped, protocol-relative and serialized URLs.

Sorted, searchable results

Every result is sorted by kind (page link, document, audio/video or other file) and can be filtered by problem, searched, sorted

Jump right to the link

Edit opens the editor for that post or page. View on page opens the page, scrolls to the link and outlines it (administrators only).

What's Supported

Works with the block editor, classic editor and the most popular page builders, from a simple blog to a heavily built agency site, with no external service or API key required.

DETECTION COVERS

Dev Site

Staging Hosts

Old Site

Live URLs

Also Works With

Elementor, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Themify and Cornerstone page builder data

Divi and WPBakery content, plus ACF and other custom fields shown on the page

Old-site and staging images, which are always reported because they will break

Get Hardlink Finder.

Hardlinks. Found

One-time price of $30.