by giangel84 4.1 (7 reviews)

Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it

Name: Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it
Rating: 4.1 (7 reviews)
Author: giangel84

Completely disable the Media Permalink generated by WP.

Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it ranks #7,366 among WordPress.org plugins with 800+ active installations, is #880 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 4.1/5 rating from 7 reviews, and was last updated Mar 4, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.4)

v1.0 Current Version v1.0

Updated 8 months ago Last Update on 04 Mar, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#880 of 6,651 in Media Top 10% by installs Downloads -8.8% this week

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Active Installs

800+

-16.7%

KW Avg Position

60.5

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82%

Review 4.1 out of 5

4.1 (7 reviews)

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.0
Last Updated: Mar 04, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 6.9
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: giangel84

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.1
Reviews: 7
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who don't need individual attachment pages on their site. It solves the problem of unwanted media permalink pages existing by completely disabling WordPress's generated media/attachment permalinks, which also reduces pages crawled by Cookiebot.

Disables media permalinks
No configuration options
Reduces Cookiebot crawled pages
Activate and use immediately

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it

So every link like this: https://mydomain.com/category/the-post-title/attachment/my-image-slug come back to: https://mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/12/01/my-image.jpg

Since WP will no longer check these type of guid structure the old permalink will return a 404 page.

Obviously if you disable all media permalink, all of those could be deleted by search engines. Depend on your SEO plugin, it could convert all media permalink to the direct file link (see your SEO plugin settings and check the sitemap.xml to understand what it contain). If you enable the "Redirect attachment URLs to the attachment itself" function, this will stop to work, since the redirect can't work without the media permalink.

No! The plugin never write anything to your wordpress database, so it is 100% safe to use!

Of course, You can do it with a single click! * Simply disable or uninstall the plugin * Your permalink structure and all previous permalink will work again.