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<p>Completely disable “attachment” pages created by WordPress.</p>
<p>By default, WordPress creates a page for each of your attachments. This is can be undesirable because of two reasons:</p>
<h3>Search engine optimization</h3>
<p>Attachment pages don’t have any content, except an image, so they provide little value and can negatively affect your SEO because they are so-called <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/thin-content" rel="nofollow ugc">thin content</a>. Even worse, attachment pages may in some cases rank higher than your actual content pages which leads to a poor user experience.</p>
<h3>Reserved slugs</h3>
<p>Attachment pages can accidentally reserve slugs on your site. Let’s say you upload an image named <strong>contact.jpeg</strong>, an attachment page <code>https://example.com/contact</code> is automatically created. If you then try to create a page named <strong>Contact</strong>, the URL for that page will be <code>https://example.com/contact-2</code> which isn’t that great.</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<p>This plugin works by automatically setting all attachment slugs to an unique id, so they won’t conflict with your pages. If an attachment page is accessed, the plugin will set a 404 status code and display the “page not found” template.</p>
<p>You can also mangle any existing attachment slugs so they won’t cause any issues in the future.</p>
<h3>WP CLI support</h3>
<p>The plugin supports WP CLI.</p>
<h4>Mangle existing attachment slugs</h4>
<pre><code>wp disable-media-pages mangle
</code></pre>
<h4>Restore attachment slugs</h4>
<pre><code>wp disable-media-pages restore
</code></pre>
<h3>Note for WordPress 6.4</h3>
<p>WordPress 6.4 includes <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/10/16/changes-to-attachment-pages/" rel="nofollow ugc">a new feature</a> that allows you to disable attachment pages. However, this feature redirects attachment pages to the file URL instead of returning a 404 error. To completely disable attachment pages, you should use this plugin instead. The WP 6.4 feature also does not fix the issue where attachment pages reserve slugs for pages.</p>
<p>Also, there is not user interface to enable or disable media pages, they are automatically disabled for new sites but remain enabled for existing sites.</p>
<p>Because of these issues, I recommend you to use this plugin instead of the built-in feature. The plugin will be updated in the foreseeable future, at least until attachment pages are completely removed from WordPress core and older WordPress versions are no longer in use.</p>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>Special thanks to Greg Schoppe for <a href="https://gschoppe.com/wordpress/disable-attachment-pages/" rel="nofollow ugc">his research</a> and inspiration that helped a lot with developing this plugin.</p>
<h3>Support the plugin</h3>
<p>Maintaining a WordPress plugin is a lot of work. If you like the plugin, please consider rating it on <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-media-pages/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">WordPress.org</a>. You can also support me on <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/joppuyo" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub sponsors</a>. Thank you!</p>
<p>If you are interested, you can also check out my other WordPress plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/customizer-disabler/" rel="ugc">Disable Customizer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-drop-cap/" rel="ugc">Disable Drop Cap</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-image-aspect-ratio-crop/" rel="ugc">ACF Image Aspect Ratio Crop</a></li>
</ul>


Disable Media Pages

really handy plugin. Should be in the "must-have plugins" category !

must have!

Completely remove "attachment" pages for WordPress media. Improve SEO and prevent conflicts between page and image permalinks.

Denis Yanchevskiy

<p>DCO Comment Attachment allows your visitors to attach images, videos, audios, documents and other files with their comments. They will also be able to automatically embed links from Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and other services in the comment text.</p>
<p>With plugin settings you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Limit the maximum file upload size.</li>
<li>Make an attachment required.</li>
<li>Specify whether the attachment will be embedded or displayed as a link.</li>
<li>Enable/Disable autoembed links (like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in the comment text.</li>
<li>Select an attachment image size from thumbnails available in your WordPress install.</li>
<li>Link a thumbnail to a full-size image with lightbox plugins support (see <a href="#faq" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a> for details).</li>
<li>Open a full-size image in a new tab or link thumbnail to the attachment page.</li>
<li>Enable/Disable multiple upload.</li>
<li>Combine images to gallery.</li>
<li>Select an attachment image size for the images gallery.</li>
<li>Restrict attachment file types.</li>
<li>Decide who will be able to upload attachments: all users or only logged users.</li>
<li>Manually moderate comments with attachments.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add, replace or delete an attachment from a comment on the Edit Comment screen.</li>
<li>Attach an unlimited number of attachments to the comment in the admin panel.</li>
<li>Delete an attachment from a specific comment or bulk delete attachments from comments on the Comments screen.</li>
<li>Display attachments attached to comments to the current post (or a specific post) with the <code>[dco_ca]</code> shortcode. You can also filter by type. See <a href="#faq" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a> for details.</li>
</ul>
<p>Attachments are uploaded to the WordPress Media Library and deleted along with the comment (if this is set in the settings).</p>
<p>REST API is supported.</p>
<p>DCO Comment Attachment is also available on <a href="https://github.com/yadenis/DCO-Comment-Attachment" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


DCO Comment Attachment

Allows your visitors to attach files with their comments

Disable Media Pages vs DCO Comment Attachment