Foundation: Pathless

An asynchronous, self-hosted link checker that finds broken links and accessibility issues without slowing down your site.

Description

Foundation: Pathless is part of the Foundation plugin series by Inkfire Limited — a suite of modular, minimal tools for clean, performant WordPress sites.

Pathless runs in the background, scanning your site's posts and pages for broken links (404s), server errors, and unreachable URLs. It also performs accessibility checks for common issues like generic anchor text. All results are displayed in a clean, actionable dashboard right in your WordPress admin. Because it's a self-hosted solution, you never have to worry about subscriptions or external services.

Installation

1. Upload the foundation-pathless folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Navigate to Foundation > Pathless in the admin menu to view the dashboard and start a scan.

Changelog

1.5.4

• Added Foundation Core registration, diagnostics breadcrumbs, health checks, Core menu handoff, and safe-mode isolation support.

1.5.3

• Synced the dashboard with the canonical shared Foundation admin shell assets.

1.5.2

• Rebuilt the admin dashboard on the shared Foundation shell while preserving the existing scan, dismiss, and settings flows.

1.5.1

• Added GitHub release updater support and repository metadata.

1.2.0

• Complete architectural rebuild with asynchronous background processing.
• New interactive dashboard with one-click actions (Edit, Unlink, Recheck, Dismiss).
• Implemented Accessibility Checker for generic and empty link text.
• Unified admin menu under "Foundation".