Disable Media Pages is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 17 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Disable Media Pages is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by joppuyo. With a rating of 5.0★ from 17 reviews.
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Disable Media Pages is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 17 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by joppuyo — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (17) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Disable Media Pages works
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Completely disable “attachment” pages created by WordPress.
By default, WordPress creates a page for each of your attachments. This is can be undesirable because of two reasons:
Search engine optimization 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 thin content. Even worse, attachment pages may in some cases rank higher than your actual content pages which leads to a poor user experience.
Reserved slugs Attachment pages can accidentally reserve slugs on your site. Let’s say you upload an image named contact.jpeg, an attachment page https://example.com/contact is automatically created. If you then try to create a page named Contact, the URL for that page will be https://example.com/contact-2 which isn’t that great.
How it works 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.
You can also mangle any existing attachment slugs so they won’t cause any issues in the future.
WP CLI support The plugin supports WP CLI.
Mangle existing attachment slugs wp disable-media-pages mangle
Restore attachment slugs wp disable-media-pages restore
Note for WordPress 6.4 WordPress 6.4 includes a new feature 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.
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.
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.
Thanks Special thanks to Greg Schoppe for his research and inspiration that helped a lot with developing this plugin.
Support the plugin Maintaining a WordPress plugin is a lot of work. If you like the plugin, please consider rating it on WordPress.org. You can also support me on GitHub sponsors. Thank you!
If you are interested, you can also check out my other WordPress plugins:
Disable Customizer
Disable Drop Cap
ACF Image Aspect Ratio Crop
Keyword rankings
Disable Media Pages ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.contactRank #857
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Frequently asked questions
What is Disable Media Pages?
Disable Media Pages is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 17 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by joppuyo.