Shortlink directly to a media file?

It turns out this is easily solved by creating a file attachment.php and redirecting to the file itself.

  1. Create an attachment.php file in your WordPress theme folder

  2. Put this code in the file
    <?php wp_redirect(wp_get_attachment_url(), 301); ?>

  3. Upload it and there you go

This link explains in full.

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