Michael Cannon

saurabhd

Subharanjan

<p>Use Remove Extra Media to remove extra media attachments from your selected post types.</p>
<p>In my use case, my testimonials widgets post types in some cases, for whatever reason, had up to 7 extra media attachments related to them. I wanted a quick way to clear those excess out. Considering that the only image or media attachment a testimonial should have was the featured, I simply removed all the others.</p>
<p>This tool works by removing the attachment relationship as this saves the media file in case it’s used by other attachments. Using <code>wp_delete_attachment</code> would delete the media file, which is something to avoid.</p>
<h4>Primary Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>API</li>
<li>Ajax based processing screen</li>
<li>Media isn’t deleted, only unattached from post type entry</li>
<li>Settings export/import</li>
<li>Settings screen</li>
<li>Variable allowed media count</li>
</ul>
<h4>Settings Options</h4>
<p><strong>General</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Post Type – Post type to remove excess media from.</li>
<li>Media Limit – Number of media items to limit selected post types to. Count includes featured image.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Testing</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Debug Mode – Bypass Ajax controller to handle posts_to_import directly for testing purposes.</li>
<li>Posts to Import – A CSV list of post ids to import, like ‘1,2,3’.</li>
<li>Skip Importing Posts – A CSV list of post ids to not import, like ‘1,2,3’.</li>
<li>Import Limit – Useful for testing import on a limited amount of posts. 0 or blank means unlimited.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Compatibility & Reset</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Export Settings – These are your current settings in a serialized format. Copy the contents to make a backup of your settings.</li>
<li>Import Settings – Paste new serialized settings here to overwrite your current configuration.</li>
<li>Remove Plugin Data on Deletion? – Delete all Remove Extra Media data and options from database on plugin deletion</li>
<li>Reset to Defaults? – Check this box to reset options to their defaults</li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>TBD</p>
<h3>API</h3>
<ul>
<li>Read the <a href="https://github.com/michael-cannon/remove-extra-media/blob/master/API.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Remove Extra Media API</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Localization</h3>
<p>You can translate this plugin into your own language if it’s not done so already. The localization file <code>remove-extra-media.pot</code> can be found in the <code>languages</code> folder of this plugin. After translation, please <a href="https://axelerant.com/contact-axelerant/" rel="nofollow ugc">send the localized file</a> for plugin inclusion.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://nodedesk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202294892" rel="nofollow ugc">How do I localize?</a></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Serbian by <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ognjen Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Spanish by <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ognjen Djuraskovic</a></li>
</ul>


Remove Extra Media

Use Remove Extra Media to remove extra media attachments from your selected post types.

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.

Remove Extra Media vs Disable Media Pages