Smart Attachment Page Remove vs VS Knowledge Base

The Smart Attachment Page Remove Plugin allows you to remove Attachment Pages automatically generated by WordPress Retired Plugin Development, maintenance and support of this plugin has been retired in october 2023. You can use this plugin as long as is works for you. There will be no more updates and I won’t answer any support questions. Thanks for your understanding. Feel free to fork this plugin. Usage WordPress automatically generates a page for every file you upload to your Media Library. Even if you do not want to use these Pages and never link media files to their Attachment Page these pages exist and can be accessed by their automated generated URL. The Smart Attachment Page Remove Plugin blocks access to Attachment Pages and causes an 404 error (“page not found”). This ensures that Attachment Pages do not appear in the results of Search Engines unwanted. Additionally this plugin prevents from comment spam sent via this Attachment Pages because they are no longer accessible. Settings Optionally, a status code 410 can be sent instead of status code 404. HTTP status code 404 indicates that the requested URL could not be found. This is the default code always sent by WordPress when a URL can not be found. HTTP status 404 does not provide any further information why a URL was not found. HTTP status code 410 on the other hand indicates that the requested URL is no longer available and will not be available again. If your Attachment Pages already have been indexed by search engines, HTTP status 410 informs them to immediately delete those pages from their index. This should speed up removal. Regardless, in case of Attachment Pages it makes more sense to use HTTP status 410 anyway and it is recommendet to activate this option in any case. This option is not activated by default only because it is not the usual behavior of WordPress. There are no negative effects in using HTTP 410. Plugin Privacy Information This plugin does not set cookies This plugin does not collect or store any data This plugin does not send any data to external servers

About With this lightweight plugin you can create a knowledge base that contains your categories and posts. Main features of the plugin: Free and lightweight Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor Display your knowledge base with block, shortcode or widget Custom post types are supported (such as WooCommerce product categories and products) Customize your knowledge base with attributes Documentation at WP plugin page Active support from developer at WP forum With this plugin you can also create a FAQ or wiki in the same way as a knowledge base. How to use After installation make sure you already have some categories and posts. Go to the editor and add the VS Knowledge Base block or the shortcode [knowledgebase] to a page. This will display your knowledge base. Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Knowledge Base widget. Default settings categories: 4 columns when using block or shortode 1 column when using widget 2 columns in small screens Order by name Ascending order (A-Z) Empty categories are hidden Parent and subcategories are displayed separately Default settings posts: Order by date Descending order (new to old) All posts are displayed Customize your knowledge base with attributes. Attributes You can customize your knowledge base by adding attributes to the block, shortcode or widget. Add custom CSS class to knowledge base: class="your-class-name" Change the number of columns: columns="3" Disable the columns: columns="0" Include certain categories: include="1,3,5" Exclude certain categories: exclude="8,10,12" Display empty categories too: hide_empty="0" Change the number of posts per category: posts_per_category="5" Reverse the order of posts: order="ASC" Display posts by title: orderby="title" Display posts in random order: orderby="rand" Disable category link: category_link="false" Display category description: category_description="true" Display post counter: post_count="true" Display post meta (date and author): post_meta="true" Display View All link: view_all_link="true" Change label of View All link: view_all_link_label="your label" Change label of post without title: no_post_title_label="your label" Change the “no categories are found” text: no_categories_text="your text" Example: [knowledgebase include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" post_meta="true"] When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets. Example: include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" post_meta="true" With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4. In small screens max 2 colums. You can disable the columns in favour of your own styling. The columns attribute will be ignored when using the block or widget. Because you can set the columns via the block or widget settings. Post tags Besides displaying posts by category you can also display posts by tag: taxonomy="post_tag" Custom post types It’s also possible to display categories and posts from a custom post type (such as WooCommerce product categories and products). To display these categories and posts you should add 2 attributes: “taxonomy” and “post_type” WooCommerce: Product categories and products: taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product" Include product category image: taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product" woo_image="true" Display by tag instead of category: taxonomy="product_tag" post_type="product" Have a question? Please take a look at the FAQ section. Translation Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs. More translations are very welcome! The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference. Credits Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!