Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

Completely disable the Media Permalink generated by WP.
It’s useful for websites who doesn’t need the attachment’s page, it reduce Cookiebot crawled pages and more over.
It’s easy to use, no options, just activate the plugin and it will work as expected.

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Installation

Install the Plugin and Activate it.
No settings required, read the F.A.Q. to know how it work!
That’s all! Enjoy.

Frequently Asked Questions

How it works?

When the Plugin is active, it apply a filter to say to your WP to disable all media permalinks.
So every link like this: https://mydomain.com/category/the-post-title/attachment/my-image-slug
come back to: https://mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/12/01/my-image.jpg

What happen when a previous permalink will open?

Since WP will no longer check these type of guid structure the old permalink will return a 404 page.

Is this plugin SEO compatible?

Obviously if you disable all media permalink, all of those could be deleted by search engines.
Depend on your SEO plugin, it could convert all media permalink to the direct file link (see your SEO plugin settings and check the sitemap.xml to understand what it contain).
If you enable the “Redirect attachment URLs to the attachment itself” function, this will stop to work, since the redirect can’t work without the media permalink.

Do the plugin something with database?

No! The plugin never write anything to your wordpress database, so it is 100% safe to use!

Can I restore all media permalink?

Of course, You can do it with a single click!
* Simply disable or uninstall the plugin
* Your permalink structure and all previous permalink will work again.

Review feed

giangel84

5/16/2018

Good choice to clean unuseful permalink

This helps you to remove the media/attachment permalink, so Cookiebot will never crawl every image as single page. For example you have 50 posts with 1 image on each one, then Cookiebot count 50 urls + 50 media urls = 100 pages. Using this plugin can save you for the 50 media attached url, keeping cookiebot working on your blog as free version.

altworks

5/1/2019

Great plugin! Fixed media permalink problem instantly

The simplest and most effective way to get rid of annoying media permalinks and the garbage pages they create. I'm very happy to find this!

Jose Mortellaro

1/14/2020

Excellent and simple

This plugin is perfect. You have just to install it to solve a big problem. Thank you for giving the possibility to disable the media permalinks created by WordPress just with one click!

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Changelog

1.0

First stable release

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