Disable Media Pages
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
IdleFrame Screensaver
IdleFrame Screensaver shows a fullscreen screensaver on selected WordPress posts and pages after a visitor has been idle for a configured amount of time. You can configure a global screensaver and then enable it only on the posts or pages where it should appear. Individual posts and pages can also use custom screensaver settings instead of the global defaults. Supported sources: YouTube video Vimeo video Local video from the WordPress media library Image from the WordPress media library Main features: Global idle delay and source settings. Page-level custom screensaver settings. Frontend close button. Frontend volume and mute controls for video sources. Optional “Show one time” behavior per page load. PHP filters/actions and JavaScript events for custom integrations. The screensaver appears only on posts and pages where it is enabled and where the selected source has a valid media value. External Services IdleFrame Screensaver can load embedded videos from YouTube or Vimeo when those sources are selected. When a page uses a YouTube screensaver, the visitor’s browser connects to YouTube/Google services to load the embedded player and video. YouTube or Google may process data according to their terms and privacy policy: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms https://policies.google.com/privacy When a page uses a Vimeo screensaver, the visitor’s browser connects to Vimeo services to load the embedded player and video. Vimeo may process data according to its terms and privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/terms https://vimeo.com/privacy Local video and image sources use media from this WordPress site and do not load YouTube or Vimeo services.
