Broken Link Checker (the long-running ManageWP fork) does the work most WordPress sites need: it crawls the content, hits every URL it finds, and writes the result to wp_blc_links (url, http_code, broken, redirect_count, last_check, log) along with one row per appearance in wp_blc_instances (post id, container type, container field, link text). On a mid-size publication that table grows past tens of thousands of rows in a few months.

The default Tools, Broken Links screen is a paginated list of the most recent fifty results with a Fix It and a Dismiss button per row. That works for the one-at-a-time triage, and it falls apart the moment an SEO lead wants to filter to 404s in editorial content posted before a migration, or to confirm that yesterday's cleanup actually emptied the broken bucket for a specific post type.

SleekView reads the same blc tables and renders the audit as a real grid. Each row carries the URL, the http_code, the container_type the link appears in, the last_check timestamp, the broken or warned status, and the dismissed flag. Saved filters do the rest: a view filtered to broken equals 1 and dismissed equals 0 is the actual cleanup queue, and a view scoped to container_type equals comment isolates user-generated rot from editorial rot in one click.

Broken Link Checker is excellent at the slow, patient work of finding broken URLs across a long-running site. The data it produces is rich (status code, container type, last check, log message, dismissed state) and the default surface only exposes a sliver of that richness through a paginated list of the latest fifty results. On a brochure site that is enough.

On a publication with ten thousand outbound links, the audit becomes a guessing game played one page of results at a time. SleekView does not replace the crawler, the retry logic, or the dismiss workflow. It reads the same wp_blc_links and wp_blc_instances rows and renders them as the sortable, filterable, exportable grid the audit always deserved.