joppuyo

<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.

Aesqe

<p>“File Gallery” extends WordPress’ media (attachments) capabilities<br />
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support,<br />
a new interface for attachment handling when editing posts, and much<br />
more… Here’s the full list of features:</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>multiple galleries per post with custom attachment order</li>
<li>a flexible templating system (PHP, CSS, JS) – choose a different<br />
template for each gallery, even within the same post (4 templates<br />
included with plugin)</li>
<li>simple, easy to use UI with drag and drop sorting shows attachment<br />
thumbnails beneath text editor: everything attachments-related is on<br />
the same screen you’re editing your post on</li>
<li>fully integrated with the visual editor (tinyMCE) – click on the<br />
[gallery] placeholder image and change any option in the File<br />
Gallery metabox – changes will be applied instantly</li>
<li>settings page extends the default media settings page</li>
<li>attach copies of items from media library to current post (copies<br />
data only, not the file)</li>
<li>copy all attachments from another post</li>
<li>unattach (detach) items from current post</li>
<li>media tags = tag your attachments and then use those tags to choose<br />
which attachments you want to display in your gallery or to filter<br />
your media library items.</li>
<li>custom fields for attachments</li>
<li>gallery pagination</li>
<li>different background colors for items in media library depending<br />
on their status = completely unattached (white), attached to other<br />
posts (red), or attached to current post (yellow)</li>
<li>compatible with “WordPress Mobile Edition”, “Media Tags” and<br />
“WPML Multilingual CMS” plugins </li>
<li>basic caching of gallery output and frequent queries (transients)</li>
<li>please see the help file for complete list of features</li>
</ol>
<h3>More info</h3>
<p>This plugin uses icons from the awesome famfamfam Silk icon set by<br />
Mark James.<br />
“Silk” can be found at: http://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/</p>
<p>Plugin settings are integrated into media settings page.</p>
<p>Help file is included, you’ll find it in the “help” subfolder.</p>
<h3>Translation Credits</h3>
<p>Hebrew:<br />
* <strong>Maor Barazany</strong> – http://www.maorb.info/</p>
<p>French:<br />
* <strong>Jean-Michel Meyer</strong> – http://www.li-an.fr/wpplugins/</p>
<p>Italian:<br />
* <strong>Pietro Palli</strong> – http://ppal.li/<br />
* <strong>Francesco Canovi</strong>  – http://www.blackstudio.it/</p>
<p>Arabic:<br />
* <strong>Wassem Mansour</strong> – http://www.sanapix.com</p>
<p>Lithuanian:<br />
* <strong>Vincent G</strong> – http://www.Host1Free.com</p>
<p>Polish:<br />
* <strong>Michał Budzik</strong> – http://www.mindborn.pl/en/</p>
<h3>Contributors</h3>
<p>Greg Haddow (https://github.com/shaddowgh/)<br />
Josh Eaton (https://github.com/jjeaton/)<br />
Andrea Baccega (https://github.com/vekexasia)</p>
<h3>Thanks goes out to…</h3>
<ul>
<li>All the contributors, translators, and people leaving comments,<br />
bug reports and suggestions on the official page and in the<br />
WordPress.org forums</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plans for the next versions</h3>
<p>sooner:</p>
<ul>
<li>manage media tags for all selected attachments</li>
<li>audio and video preview on editing screens</li>
</ul>
<p>later:</p>
<ul>
<li>phpdoc all the functions</li>
<li>more detailed description for file_gallery_shortcode function<br />
(what can be used in ‘orderby’, what do ‘columns’ mean) for beginner programmers</li>
<li>yoxview lightbox http://www.yellow-llama.com/yoxview-gallery-wordpress-plugin/</li>
</ul>
<p>maybe:</p>
<ul>
<li>show attachments’ Custom Fields in the main page of Media Library (custom column)</li>
<li>media library sort by file size or picture dimensions</li>
</ul>
<p>probably not, but who knows:</p>
<ul>
<li>watermarking – probably in another plugin…</li>
<li>when detaching / deleting attachments, just remove them from DOM<br />
without refreshing the entire file gallery box, but take care of<br />
originals and copies</li>
</ul>
<p>And thank you for reading this 🙂</p>
<p>aesqe</p>


File Gallery

File Gallery extends WordPress media (attachments) capabilities 
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support 
(and much more).

Disable Media Pages vs File Gallery