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.

dholloran

<p>Allows you to add/edit/attach/un-attach/delete/sort the files attached to your WordPress posts all from the post editor.  Integrates seamlessly with WordPress using the default WordPress attachments type, full control over cropping of the different attachment image sizes crop editor and no configuration needed to add WP Better Attachments to custom post types.</p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Information on the settings available <a href="http://dholloran.github.io/wp-better-attachments" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></li>
<li><code>[wpba-attachment-list]</code> Outputs a list of attachments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Functions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Information on the settings available <a href="http://dholloran.github.io/wp-better-attachments" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></li>
<li><code>wpba_attachments_exist()</code> Checks for post attachments</li>
<li><code>wpba_get_attachments()</code> Retrieves an array of attachments</li>
<li><code>wpba_attachment_list()</code> Outputs a list of attachments</li>
</ul>
<p>View more information on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/DHolloran/wp-better-attachments/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></p>
<p>If you have any issues please submit an <a href="https://github.com/DHolloran/wp-better-attachments/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">issue</a>.</p>
<h3>1.3.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added <code>wpba_attachments_exist()</code> to check if a post has attachments.</li>
<li>Added no attachments message for attachment list.</li>
<li>Fixed wpba_get_attachments() not retrieving post thumbnail images correctly.</li>
<li>Added settings to disable front end files, post thumbnails globally, and crop editor.</li>
<li>Fixed compatibility issue with Wysija Newsletter Plugin.</li>
<li>Fixed other miscellaneous issues and general clean up.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed activation error</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added alternate styling of meta box when editor is not activated.</li>
<li>Fixed attachment list generating extra list items</li>
<li>Added class and id parameters for each HTML element in the attachment list</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Code cleanup and PHPDoc</li>
<li>Fixed metabox inputs not selectable in Firefox</li>
<li>Added granular settings</li>
<li>Added edit modal, un-attach link and re-attach link to Uploaded To column</li>
<li>Added ability to edit metabox title</li>
<li>Fixed crop editor not showing correct image sizes</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.7</h3>
<h3>1.3.8</h3>
<h3>1.3.9</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adds survey notification key</li>
<li>Adds filters for types of files</li>
<li>Removes Flexslider from compiled CSS</li>
<li>Miscellaneous tweaks</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.10</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixes an issue with notifications not able to disable on sub folder installs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.11</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added use_caption_for_title to build_attachment_list function/shortcode. Props Mike Warwick.</li>
<li>Added a second add attachments button to the bottom of meta box. Props Mike Warwick.</li>
<li>Fixed undefined variable PHP warning.</li>
<li>Updates the survey notification with thank you message.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.3</h3>
<p>Should resolve issues from last update and adds more settings control</p>
<h3>1.3.4</h3>
<p>Fixed activation error</p>
<h3>1.3.5</h3>
<p>Fixed attachment list generating extra list items, Added alternate styling of meta box when editor is not activated and class/id parameters for each HTML element in the attachment list function/shortcode.</p>
<h3>1.3.6</h3>
<p>Added granular settings; edit modal, un-attach link and re-attach link to Uploaded To column, miscellaneous bug fixes</p>
<h3>1.3.7</h3>
<h3>1.3.8</h3>
<h3>1.3.9</h3>
<p>Adds filters for adding file types, removes Flexslider from CSS and miscellaneous tweaks.</p>
<h3>1.3.10</h3>
<p>Fixes an issue with notifications not able to disable on sub folder installs.</p>
<h3>1.3.11</h3>
<p>Adds use_caption_for_title option to build_attachment_list, adds “Add Attachments” button to bottom of meta box, and misc. fixes/updates.</p>


WP Better Attachments

Allows you to add/edit/attach/un-attach/sort the files attached to your WordPress posts all from the post editor.

Disable Media Pages vs WP Better Attachments