A very simple workaround is: don’t attach the images to the post. Upload the images directly in the Media Library: http://example.com/wp-admin/media-new.php, go to the post and insert selecting it from “All Media”, it won’t be shown in the “attachments” list.
An attachment page is dedicated to a single attachment media item (image, video, audio etc.). You can change it’s behaviour by editing single-attachment.php. However this is not recommended. It is possible to create galleries and insert them in posts. Or install a plugin that displays custom posts as galleries of images.
No complete code, but I know you can stick it together. 🙂 Find all post IDs of unattached images (borrowed from wp-admin/upload.php): global $wpdb; $lost = $wpdb->get_col( ” SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type=”attachment” AND post_parent > ‘0’ AND post_parent NOT IN ( SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type NOT IN ( ‘attachment’, ‘” . … Read more
There is no complete solution possible. And that is not new. Any image can be a part of a gallery in a post that is not that image’s parent. So the post parent is not a useful parameter. The new interface makes such galleries easier to create, but they were possible in earlier versions too. … Read more
The solution to this is that you have to search for posts first, and afterwards to images to the post. In my code I included a parameter exclude to ensure the current post is not delivered again. Please keep in mind that if a post has no Image, none will be shown. Also, I did … Read more
How do your users upload photos? You’re right about register_shutdown_function. It seems to work well in my code, though I only ever call my back-end via AJAX (I’ve also got file upload functionality), and so only need to account for this case. Here’s how I set it up in my plugin. Outside of the plugin … Read more
Asked the same question here. There is an extra step to fix this, as answered in my question.
I think I understand what you are trying to achieve now. You will need to modify the single.php (or single-post-type.php if it is a CPT) to run, via ajax, your gallery or whatever if the content is being viewed through ajax. Here is something (modified a bit) I have used in the past to do … Read more
Retrieve the attachments There’s a pretty unknown, but handy function in core: get_children();, which accepts an array of arguments. One of those is post_mime_type. $attachments = get_children( array( ‘post_parent’ => get_the_ID(), ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘application/msword’ ) ); If you’re unsure about the MIME types of your doc … Read more
Try to use that set of arguments : $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘post_parent’ => $post->ID, ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’, ‘order’ => ‘asc’, ‘post__not_in’ => array( $thumb_id ) ); I’m using it for one of my site and it’s working fine. So you shouldn’t have to use : if … Read more