WP Attachments

E’ un fantastico plugin, con tutta la sua semplicità. Metto 5 stelle con la speranza che l’autore lo vorrà aggiornare. Perché ad esempio, ogni volta che aggiorno un/a pagina/articolo gli allegati si attivano automaticamente, anche se prima erano disattivati. Sarebbe meglio averli disattivati in default.

The plugin is abandoned by the original developer and lacks functionality. It does not work anymore.

also I’d love an option not to show the list at all in frontend – i would use it only for unattaching in the backend.
A zip-all-attachments download would be nice.
And as mentioned, images in the list should be shown as thumbnails.

Also there is a bug – when I edit the post and then try to unattach, it wants to reload and leave the post unsaved. Ajax would suit better.

I tried over a dozen other plugins in order to display a simple list of PDFs which the user can upload and display on a page. I was relieved to finally find WP Attachments worked as expected and was simple to set up.
Php 8 update, if needed, would be great and compatibility with page builders and ease of CSS customisation are always welcome features.
Thank you for your work which is much appreciated.

This plugin is simple but very focused and achieves what it needs to.
That said, the underlying code is messy and at times poorly written.

For example, the attachments div has no class or id so you can’t target it with css. It forces its style using the “style” attribute which is pretty bad for customizability. I had to use a filter and wrap it in another div just to have a class I could target with custom CSS.

Another big issue: in the admin options, I am not able to use a custom template for the attachment title. Selecting the “Custom” option does nothing because the plugin:
– Uses a script HTML tag to load jQuery from an external CDN, in the middle of the page. This is not the WordPress standard way of loading jQuery (or any script at all) and can potentially cause many issues.
– Attempts to use the “$” variable instead of using “jQuery”. This causes an error (TypeError: $ is not a function) that blocks the execution of javascript and prevents the options from working correctly.

So if the plugin works for you out-of-the-box, that’s great. If you need to adapt it somehow, be aware that the code is very hard to work with.