[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60569: Generate UUID for media slugs if attachment pages are inactive.

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#60569: Generate UUID for media slugs if attachment pages are inactive.
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 Reporter:  peterwilsoncc             |       Owner:  antpb
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  6.6
Component:  Media                     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by peterwilsoncc):

 Replying to [comment:4 oglekler]:
 > And what will happen if attachment pages were disabled and then this
 condition is changed?

 The attachment pages would work but the URL would use the name assigned at
 image attachment, for example `/my-page/11223344-5566-7788-99AA-
 BBCCDDEEFF00`. While it's not impossible that it will happen, as the pages
 need to be re-enabled via a plugin or a WP-CLI command It's safe enough to
 consider this an edge case.

 As an implementation detail, it's possible that WP could use the
 `pre_wp_unique_post_slug` hook to allow plugins to remove the feature
 without enabling attachment pages.

 > Personally, I had a lot of troubles with images and page names because I
 am always naming images describing what is there, like: white-t-shirt.png
 or our-team.jpg and ended up just adding "-image" to the end of all images
 I am uploading.

 This is what I'm hoping to avoid the need for. There's few things worse
 than having a page show as `/our-team-2` because the photo on the page is
 called `our-team.jpg` and claimed the slug `our-team` as a result.

 Do you have a preferred approach to the very ugly URLs to handle the edge
 case when attachment pages are inactive? I'm happy to consider
 alternatives and rename the ticket accordingly.

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