Attach Unattached Images

Attach Unattached Images is a WordPress plugin designed to automatically detect and link unattached images in a site's media library to their appropriate parent posts, products, or downloads. It addresses the issue where images uploaded outside the post editor remain unattached, ensuring that each image is properly associated with its relevant content. This process is handled in the background without requiring manual intervention, streamlining media management for site administrators.

The plugin offers features such as scanning the entire site to find unattached images, batch processing with configurable sizes to prevent PHP timeouts, and a live progress bar for real-time feedback during scans. It supports pausing and resuming scans, allowing users to stop and continue without losing progress. The tool is compatible with posts, WooCommerce products, and Easy Digital Downloads, and integrates with WordPress page builders like Elementor and Gutenberg. Smart image detection uses regular expressions to extract image sources, resolves size-suffixed URLs, and skips external CDN images. The plugin only updates the post_parent field in the database, ensuring no files are moved, deleted, or re-uploaded, and all changes are fully reversible.

For attachment pages, Attach Unattached Images enhances the visitor experience by providing options to display parent post context, enable smart redirection to the parent post, show breadcrumb trails, synchronize alt text with the parent post title, and display image metadata such as title, dimensions, file type, upload date, and caption. In the Pro version, users can also show parent post thumbnails, author, and price information on attachment pages, with all settings customizable. Pro users benefit from background processing, faster scan speeds, auto-attachment on every save, and an attachment page builder.

The plugin is available in a free version, which allows scanning posts, products, and downloads with batch sizes up to 20, and includes pause and resume functionality. The Pro version, offered as a paid upgrade, unlocks additional features such as background scanning, increased batch sizes up to 100, automatic attachment on save, and enhanced attachment page customization. Pricing for Pro licenses varies based on the number of supported sites, with lifetime updates included. Attach Unattached Images is suitable for WordPress site owners and administrators seeking efficient, automated media organization and improved SEO through proper image attachment.