How did someone find my Attachment Page?

  • Unknown's avatar
    velvetlimelight · Member ·

    I’ve just had someone post a comment on an attachment page, but I don’t understand how they’ve even managed to find it.

    The image in question is part of a gallery, and I have it set to open each image as a media file. I’ve double checked this, just to make sure the settings are correct – and they are.

    I always choose the ‘media file’ option when I post, as a lot of my images are quite big and they just don’t look right on attachment pages. I know it’s possible to use the ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ buttons to scroll through all the attachment pages, but since I never set my images to link to attachment pages, I don’t think they could have navigated to it from another image either.

    How on earth have they managed to find the attachment page?

    Another thing I’ve noticed is that images I’ve uploaded to my Media Library, but haven’t yet posted to the blog, are accessible by scrolling through the attachment pages using the ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ buttons.

    As long as people can’t randomly find the attachment pages this wouldn’t be an issue, but I’ve had someone find an attachment page, when I thought my settings meant they wouldn’t be able to. So I guess even my unpublished images aren’t inaccessible. :(

    So basically, I guess what I’m asking is, does anyone know how this has happened? And does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can stop it happening again?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    Please read this thread https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/disable-comments-at-attachment-pages-globally?replies=8

  • Unknown's avatar
    velvetlimelight · Member ·

    Thank you for replying, but it’s not a spam comment. I’ve already spent most of this evening going through my Media Library and turning off comments, likes, and trackbacks/pingbacks manually (I hadn’t previously bothered because I thought no one would see the attachment pages…).

    I posted this thread because I’m more concerned with how the reader actually got to the attachment page in the first place, since I’ve deliberately set up all of my images and galleries to link to the media file, rather than the attachment page.

    I don’t want people going to the attachment pages because they look sloppy with large images, and the images don’t have the benefit of the article to provide any context – hence why I prefer the ‘link to media file’ option.

    Is there any way to ensure that people can’t get to the attachment pages?

  • The topic ‘How did someone find my Attachment Page?’ is closed to new replies.