Image Automatically Posting as New Post after Upload

  • I’m using the Custom Community theme and just recently I’ve been finding that whenever I upload a new image it automatically creates a published post on my blog for that newly uploaded image. I don’t know if this has to do with the theme or a settings issue, but I’m not a photoblog and this feature is negatively impacting my site. Does anyone know what the cause of this might be and how I can disable it?

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  • Are you uploading the new images from the WordPress Media library? (Media > Add New).

    WordPress definitely does not create a new post for each new image uploaded. It must be a theme setting or possibly a glitch with a plugin or your theme. Try disabling all plugins and switching to Twenty Fifteen to see if the problem persists.

    WordPress allows you to view an image or any media on a ‘attachment page’ – Google and other search engines will index these ‘attachment pages’ so if that is the problem here i suggest you install an SEO plugin and set ‘attachment pages’ to not be indexed by search engines.
    Attachment pages are not posts and they are not pages, they are simply a template that will put your image or video onto a ‘temporary’ page, so what i mean is, there is no list of attachment pages, to test this go to Media > Library, then select an image and look for the link that says ‘View Attachment Page’.

    hope that info helps.

    Thread Starter dreamer356

    (@dreamer356)

    I’m usually in the process of creating a new post and then uploading them through the media import option, but I’ve always done that and didn’t used to have this problem. It’s definitely posting directly to my blog and not as an attachment page. I had wondered if it might be something with a plugin, but wanted to see if there was another solution before I ventured further into that theory. Thanks for your help.

    Did you find a solution to this?
    I’m having this issue now and was looking for options/suggestions before I turn off all the plugings/switch themes.

    Thanks,

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