IndexLane Redirect & Internal Link Auditor

IndexLane Redirect & Internal Link Auditor finds internal content links that return 404/410, redirect through 301/302, or still point to old, staging, or development domains.

It runs from inside WordPress admin, stays read-only, and produces evidence a site owner or developer can review or export. It does not auto-fix content or mutate the database.

Version 0.2 can:

• Scan published posts, pages, and products when those post types exist.
• Extract links from post content.
• Check same-site link status.
• Flag 404/410 responses.
• Flag 301/302 redirects and redirect chains.
• Flag links to old domains supplied by the administrator.
• Flag common staging and development-domain links.
• Show the source post/page.
• Group broken/error and redirected destinations by occurrence count and distinct affected content count.
• Show status, redirect, effective-final-URL, warning, and result evidence for each destination.
• Export separate destination-impact and detailed-row CSV reports.

The destination-impact view is derived from the completed occurrence rows. It does not make more HTTP requests. Two links to one destination in the same page count as two occurrences and one affected content item.

Destination grouping normalizes scheme and host case, fragments, and default ports. Paths, query strings, schemes, non-default ports, and trailing slashes remain distinct because they can return different evidence.

HTTP requests are made only to the current site. Links to old, staging, or development domains are still reported for review.

Data handling

Scans run on demand from WordPress admin. Completed results are stored in a per-user WordPress transient for up to one hour so both CSV exports can reuse the displayed evidence without scanning again.

The plugin does not create an account, call an IndexLane service, or add frontend tracking.

Limits

Version 0.2 scans links found in WordPress post, page, and product content. It does not crawl menus, widgets, theme templates, page-builder metadata, shortcode output, or rendered frontend pages.