💡 Disable attachment pages for new ClassicPress installations.

[KTS915]

Context

I always disable attachment pages (using Greg Schoppe's code at https://gschoppe.com/wordpress/disable-attachment-pages/).

WordPress has now caught on. See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57913 But they messed up the implementation, so there are several changesets to get it done properly:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/56657
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/56658
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/56711
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/57357
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/57358

Possible implementation

Presumably this can be done by using the above changesets.

Will you be able to help with the implementation?

I don't know how to implement multiple changesets. But I can help test the solution.

Unlike WP, I'd also like to see us add a toggle or checkbox somewhere, so that a site administrator can easily disable attachment pages on old sites and enable such pages on new sites. But I think that belongs in a separate PR.

[StonehengeCreations]

There is already a "hidden" option to disable attachment pages completely, although it is not listed in the Admin.

Run this code once from your functions.php:
update_option( 'wp_attachment_pages_enabled', false );

Or go to https://www.yourdomain/wp-admin/options.php, find the wp_attachment_pages_enabled entry using the keyboard Ctrl + F and replace 1 with 0.
Then press Enter to save (or scroll all the way down for the submit button).

Once disabled all attachments will be shown in the browser using /wp-content/uploads/image.jpg automatically.
I double checked and this also works if an image has been inserted into a post/page using the Media Library Link to dropdown options Media File as well as Attachment Page.

To implement this for everyone, adding a simple checkbox in Settings > Media (file: /wp-admin/options-media.php) would most likely suffice, much like the uploads_use_yearmonth_folders option.

[KTS915]

Yes, I'm aware of all that. The point of opening this ticket is as a reminder to make things user-friendly.

PR #1436 does the bulk of the work.

To implement this for everyone, adding a simple checkbox in Settings > Media (file: /wp-admin/options-media.php) would most likely suffice, much like the uploads_use_yearmonth_folders option.

PR #1437 achieves that.

[iljester]

Esiste già un'opzione "nascosta" per disabilitare completamente le pagine degli allegati, sebbene non sia elencata nell'Amministratore.

Esegui questo codice una volta dal tuo Functions.php: update_option( 'wp_attachment_pages_enabled', false );

Oppure vai su https://www.yourdomain/wp-admin/options.php, trova la wp_attachment_pages_enabledvoce utilizzando la tastiera Ctrl + Fe sostituiscila 1con 0. Quindi premere Enterper salvare (o scorrere fino al pulsante di invio).

Una volta disabilitati, tutti gli allegati verranno visualizzati automaticamente nel browser /wp-content/uploads/image.jpg. Ho ricontrollato e questo funziona anche se un'immagine è stata inserita in un post/pagina utilizzando le Link toopzioni a discesa Libreria multimediale Media Filee Attachment Page.

Per implementarlo per tutti, molto probabilmente sarebbe sufficiente aggiungere una semplice casella di controllo in Settings > Media(file: ), proprio come l' opzione./wp-admin/options-media.php``uploads_use_yearmonth_folders

If this hidden option exists (which I didn't know about - I'm going to turn off attachments right away), why not make it visible on the media option page with a toggle?

[xxsimoxx]

@iljester #1437 is all about adding this feature to the media options page.

[iljester]

In any case, I would like to point out that wp_attachment_pages_enabled is only available from version 6.4 of WP. I didn't find it in my installation.

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/10/16/changes-to-attachment-pages/

[xxsimoxx]

Thank you, that is backported in #1436 that's not already merged.