How To Set Default Attachment Display Settings In WordPress

Whenever you insert an image from the WordPress’ media uploader, it allows you to set the attachment display settings in the right side of the pop-up modal. You always have to customize the display settings and it wastes a lot of time.

Bavotasan.com has a great code to set default attachment display settings by using your theme’s functions.php file. Add following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'default_attachment_display_settings' );
/**
 * Set the Attachment Display Settings "Link To" default to "none"
 *
 * This function is attached to the 'after_setup_theme' action hook.
 */
function default_attachment_display_settings() {
	update_option( 'image_default_align', 'left' );
	update_option( 'image_default_link_type', 'none' );
	update_option( 'image_default_size', 'large' );
}

Here are the options for each:

image_default_align

• left
• right
• center
• none

image_default_link_type

• file
• post
• custom
• none

image_default_size

• thumbnail
• medium
• large
• full