In this article, I’m going to show you a simple way to disable Image attachment pages in WordPress. It’s quite easy to do however, we can’t disable image attachment pages but can redirect them to the parent post URLs. The WordPress SEO by Yoast is the best SEO plugin for redirecting the image attachment pages to the parent posts. Let me just show you the settings that needed to be configured in order to redirect image attachment pages to parent posts.
Disabling Image Attachment Pages using WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin
Follow the steps below:
1. Go to SEO tab > Permalinks
2. Check box to redirect attachment URL’s to parent post URL
That’s it.
You can also redirect attachment pages by using a completely separate plugin.
Attachment Pages Redirect
Attachment Pages Redirect makes attachment pages redirects (301 permanent redirect) to post parent if any. If not, redirects (302 temporal redirect) to home page.
