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Glimmernet Spot Check
An on-demand broken link checker. Check one page's links the moment you need to. No crawling, no clutter, no false alarms.
Glimmernet Spot Check ranks #24,568 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #881 of 1,146 in the Editor & Writing category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Jun 22, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1.1)
v1.0.1
Current Version v1.0.1
Updated 2 months ago
Last Update on 22 Jun, 2026
Refreshed 11 hours ago
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- Version
- 1.0.1
- Last Updated
- Jun 22, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.0+
- Tested Up To
- 7
- PHP Version
- 8.1 or higher
- Author
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Glimmernet Spot Check
Probably not. Some sites block automated requests, and government and news sites do this a lot. They send "403 Forbidden" to robots but show the page to people just fine. Spot Check marks these yellow instead of red, which means "check this one yourself." The link stays in future checks, so if the page ever truly dies, it will show up red.
Spot Check reads the saved body of one post. Header, footer, menu, sidebar, and widget links live outside the post body, so they are not included. Links created by dynamic blocks, like a "latest posts" block, are not seen either. Most page builder content is covered, though. Divi, Kadence, and block themes store the page body where Spot Check can read it. A few builders add some links only at view time. See the next question for those.
Most likely a page builder added that link as the page loads, not when you saved. Spot Check reads your saved page content, where most links live, so it finds those. But some builders, like Elementor, keep their layout in a separate place. They turn certain links into real HTML only when a visitor views the page. Those links are not in your saved content yet, so Spot Check can't see them. When it detects one of these builders, it shows a short note in the results so nothing feels hidden. To check every link on the live page, run a full-site scanner like Broken Link Checker alongside it.
Your server checks security certificates more strictly than your browser does. Some sites have sloppy certificate setups that browsers quietly work around but servers refuse. When that happens, Spot Check tries once more with the certificate check turned off. It then reports the real page status, along with a note about the certificate problem.
Not yet, and that is a deliberate choice. Spot Check is a safe, read-only diagnostic. It tells you what is wrong and never touches your content, so it can't damage a page while trying to help. Editing links automatically is also harder than it looks. Builders like Divi and Elementor store content in their own shortcodes and data structures, not plain HTML. Changing a link safely in every builder, without breaking the layout, is a real problem to solve. A safe "fix this URL" feature is on the roadmap for when it can be done with full accuracy.
No. Checks only run while the results panel is open, and the results are thrown away when you close it. The plugin stores one small settings row, which is deleted if you uninstall. I just fixed a link, but the old one still shows up. Spot Check reads the last saved version of the post. Save or update the post first, then run the check again.
All public post types, including custom ones. New post types are turned on automatically, and you can turn any type off under Settings -> Spot Check.
