Summary

To improve SEO rankings we should disable attachment pages that are currently being indexed by search engines.

Relevant readings from Yoast and RankMath.

We can't completely disable attachment pages, as those may have been linked in various places or social media. Instead we should redirect them to the actual media url. WordPress introduced an option on 6.4 to achieve exactly this behavior.

Requirements

• Set wp_attachment_pages_enabled value to 0. Ideally we can do that with a migration (or alternatively with a post deploy script.
• Test and verify that the change is also applied on existing attachment pages.