Redirect loop for post attachments

  • Kroon10

    (@kroon10)


    14 years ago

    I am running the Twenty Eleven theme. By using Yoast his SEO Plugin I tried to redirect post attachments to their parent page. I did this because I did not want Google indexing my post attachments (images) which at the moment is the case when looking for my website in google.

    However, when clicking on the images themselves in the post, they do indeed redirect, but when I try to access the post attachment through google search or by putting the url in the address bar, I get stuck in a redirect loop.

    What can I do about this? I have recently lost my positions for keywords in the serps, and I am afraid this might have been causing it. Tons of image posts going round google, that were not even accessible.

    p.s.
    It also happens when I put this in the image.php

    <?php wp_redirect(get_permalink($post->post_parent)); ?>

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  • Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    You can simply remove the PHP tags from my code and paste this inside the existing PHP tags of the file:

    function noindex_attachment_pages() {
if(is_attachment()) {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />';
}
}
add_action('wp_head', 'noindex_attachment_pages');
    Thread Starter Kroon10

    (@kroon10)

    14 years ago

    Ok option 1 was no sweet success I am afraid:)

    Not sure If I will be able to do, alternative 2 though. It seems a bit difficult!

    If I understand it correctly, I just copy the header.php, and name it header-attachments.php.

    Then do i need to add:

    function noindex_attachment_pages() {
    if(is_attachment()) {
    echo ‘<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” />’;
    }
    }
    add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘noindex_attachment_pages’);

    This?

    And then make an attachment.php, and then insert the same code again?

    Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    For option 2, completely ignore that code.

    1. Download a copy of your template’s header.php file to your computer.
    2. Rename that copied file header-attachments.php.
    3. Open header-attachments.php in a text editor and add the meta tag inside the head section.
    4. Save header-attachments.php.
    5. Upload header-attachments.php to your theme directory.
    6. If there is an attachment.php file in your theme directory, download it. Or, if there is not, download index.php to your computer and rename that copy attachment.php.
    7. Open attachment.php in a text editor.
    8. Find the PHP function get_header().
    9. Change get_header() to get_header(‘attachments’). Make sure you do not accidentally delete or change anything else; just put ‘attachments’ (including the single quotes) inside those parentheses.
    10. Save attachment.php
    11. Upload attachment.php to your theme directory.

    Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    To be clear, attachment.php is the name of the second file.

    Thread Starter Kroon10

    (@kroon10)

    14 years ago

    Perhaps a stupid question, but the head section. Is where you see <head> for the first time like this?

    <head>
    <meta charset=”<?php bloginfo( ‘charset’ ); ?>” />

    Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    Exactly. Make it look like this:

    <head>
    <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” />
    <meta charset=”<?php bloginfo( ‘charset’ ); ?>” />

    Thread Starter Kroon10

    (@kroon10)

    14 years ago

    ok, ive all of that!

    But when looking through the page source, I still cannot find the metatags!

    Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    Go to pastebin.com. Paste the code for header-attachments.php into the text box. Set the expiration time to 1 hour and the page exposure to unlisted. Submit. When it gives you the link, post that link here.

    Thread Starter Kroon10

    (@kroon10)

    14 years ago

    Ok. Here you go.

    http://pastebin.com/dGkiZG5c

    Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    OK, everything there is right. Let’s do the same for attachment.php.

    Thread Starter Kroon10

    (@kroon10)

    14 years ago

    http://pastebin.com/GgkXdQUK

    Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    You’re missing the closing single quote in get_header(‘attachments’) so it is defaulting.

    Fix that and test again.

    Thread Starter Kroon10

    (@kroon10)

    14 years ago

    Cant believe i missed that. Sorry!

    But I have fixed it, but nothing has changed

    Doug Vanderweide

    (@dougvdotcom)

    14 years ago

    If you are using a cache plugin, such as WP Super Cache or the like, either turn it off or at least purge the cache.

    If not, post functions.php to pastebin in the same way.

    Thread Starter Kroon10

    (@kroon10)

    14 years ago

    I have now disabled w3 total cache. No changes

    Here is the functions.php

    http://pastebin.com/61C1haZ3

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