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.

shawfactor

ricardosimoes

<p>This plugin allow you to grab image from remote url and save into your own word press media library. By doing so, you never worried if the remote image was removed by its owner. This also save you steps to download the image to local computer and upload again to your own WordPress. There is also a JavaScript bookmarklet that helps to automate the process if you are surfing the internet and find something you would like to add to the library</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically downloads and adds the file to the media library.</li>
<li>After the uploading is successful, you are redirected to the edit screen</li>
<li>Once the bookmarklet is installed you don’t even need to copy and paste a url (just navigate to the url and select the bookmark).</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Like this plugin? Please consider <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/lh-add-media-from-url/" rel="ugc">leaving a 5-star review</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Love this plugin or want to help the LocalHero Project? Please consider <a href="https://lhero.org/portfolio/lh-add-media-from-url/" rel="nofollow ugc">making a donation</a>.</strong></p>
<h3>Translation credits</h3>


LH Add Media From Url

It does not work when the URL contains spaces. Luckily I can change the URL so I can workaround the issue, but it would be much better if it worked out of the box with any valid URL. Five stars if you fix it.



It nearly works

Upload files from an url to wordpress media library, either enter file urls in an onsite input box or click a bookmarklet.

Disable Media Pages vs LH Add Media From Url