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Tilda looks simple until a page is unpublished, a Zero block keeps an old URL, and the custom domain still serves a draft you thought you hid.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- Unpublished / “off” pages stay in menus, buttons, and other Zero blocks.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
srcthat 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
- Publish or delete. “Off” is not a redirect.
- Search the project for the path (Tilda has project-wide search). Replace the block, not only the one page.
- If the URL must live, put a 301 on the domain (Tilda’s redirect list or the DNS/host). One hop. See redirect chains.
- Recheck the published URL, not the editor preview.
Tilda is not WordPress. The rule is the same: scan what shipped.
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