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How to find broken links on Tilda

Published vs draft, Zero blocks, tilda.ws vs a custom domain, and store pages that still link to a deleted product.

Tilda looks simple until a page is unpublished, a Zero block keeps an old URL, and the custom domain still serves a draft you thought you hid.

How Tilda hides rot

  • Unpublished / “off” pages stay in menus, buttons, and other Zero blocks. The editor says hidden. The HTML on the custom domain says href.
  • tilda.ws vs your domain. One is a preview. Scan the host people actually open.
  • Store / catalog — deleted product, leftover card, leftover “buy” on a landing you reused.
  • Fonts, CDNs, uploaded files — Tilda is full of src that die after a project copy. Same job as broken images.
  • Forms and payment success URLs that 404. Not a “link in the menu,” still a link.

How to scan

Open the published page on the production domain. Run Advanced Broken Links Search. Tilda is a page builder: the extension sees the DOM Chrome rendered, not the block list in the editor.

If the site is more than a couple of landings, crawl the domain. Zero sites grow a hidden sitemap of old projects.

Do not treat the Tilda project settings screen as an inventory of live URLs. The live URLs are in the HTML.

How to fix

  1. Publish or delete. “Off” is not a redirect.
  2. Search the project for the path (Tilda has project-wide search). Replace the block, not only the one page.
  3. If the URL must live, put a 301 on the domain (Tilda’s redirect list or the DNS/host). One hop. See redirect chains.
  4. Recheck the published URL, not the editor preview.

Tilda is not WordPress. The rule is the same: scan what shipped.

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