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The Link Map

Every internal link on your site, resolved against the pages that actually exist.

Broken internal links are the most common fault on a new site, and the hardest to notice. They appear because a page was renamed, or deleted, or because a generated button pointed at a sensible-sounding address that was never built.

The Link Map finds them. It reads every internal link in every page's content, plus every link in your header and footer navigation, resolves each one against the pages that actually exist, and reports what it found.

Capabilities

Four numbers at the top

Total unique links, how many are healthy, how many are broken or missing, and how many are self-links.

Grouped by where the link lives

Each source is listed separately — each page, plus Header Navigation and Footer Navigation as their own entries. You can see at a glance whether a problem is in your content or in your menus.

A status per link

Every link is labelled Published, Draft, Template, Missing or Self-link.

Create a missing page in one click

A missing link offers Create Page, with the name and address already filled in from the link itself.

Rescan on demand

Rescan re-reads the site. Run it after a round of edits rather than trusting an older result.

Key Concepts

Missing

The link points at an address with no page behind it. A visitor clicking it gets your 404 page. These are the ones to fix first.

Draft

The page exists but is not published, so a visitor following this link still gets nothing. Easy to miss, because the page is right there in your pages list.

Template

The link resolves against a template page's address pattern rather than a fixed page. This is healthy — it is how a link to a blog post works.

Self-link

The link points at the page it is already on. Clicking it reloads the page and nothing appears to happen.

How It All Fits Together

The link map only looks at internal links — addresses on your own site. It is not checking whether somebody else's website is still up.

That is the right scope, because internal links are the ones you control and the ones your own edits break. Rename a page, delete a page, or change a slug, and the link map is where the consequences show up.

It is worth running at two moments in particular: before taking a site live, and after any round of deleting or renaming pages.

Tip: A link pointing at a Draft page is the one people overlook. The page exists, the editor shows it, everything looks finished — and a visitor following the link gets nothing, because it was never published.

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