Disable Media Pages vs Unique Headers

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

This plugin has been actively maintained since 2012 and is used on over 20,000 websites worldwide. Features The Unique Headers Plugin adds a custom header image box to the post/page edit screen. You can use this to upload a unique header image for that post, or use another image from your WordPress media library. When you view that page on the front-end of your site, the default header image for your site will be replaced by the unique header you selected. This functionality also works with categories and tags. Requirements You must use a theme which utilizes the built-in custom header functionality of WordPress. If your theme implement it’s own header functionality, then this plugin will not work with it. Paid WordPress development If you would like to pay for assistance, additional features to be added to the plugin or are just looking for general WordPress development services, please contact me via my contact form. Development This section is only relevant for developers building the plugin from source (e.g. cloning from GitHub). If you installed via WordPress.org, the plugin is ready to use — no build steps required. The plugin uses Composer for PHP autoloading and dependencies, npm for JavaScript tooling, and TypeScript for admin JavaScript. To set up a development environment: Install PHP dependencies: composer install Install JavaScript dependencies: npm install Compile TypeScript to JavaScript: npm run build To run tests and analysis: PHPCS (PSR-12 coding standards): composer phpcs Auto-fix PHPCS violations: composer phpcbf PHP-CS-Fixer (dry-run): composer cs PHP-CS-Fixer (auto-fix): composer cs:fix PHPStan static analysis: composer phpstan PHPUnit unit tests: composer test TypeScript type checking: npm run typecheck TypeScript source files are in src/ts/. The compiled output is written to assets/admin.js and is what WordPress loads on the admin side. Credits Thanks to the following for help with the development of this plugin: * redactuk – Assistance with debugging. * crabsallover – Assitance with debugging. * Todd – Assistance with implementing support for tags. * Mariano J. Ponce – Spanish translation. * Tobias Klotz – Deutsch (German) language translation. * Nadia Tokerud – Proof-reading of Norsk Bokmål (Norwegian) translation. * Bjørn Johansen – Proof-reading of Norwegian Bokmål translation. * Karl Olofsson – Proof-reading of Swedish translation. * Jenny Beaumont – French translation.