Why am I getting strange blank ‘attachment’ pages in Media Library?

  • I have recently inherited a website from someone else. There are a lot of images in the Media Library that I am deleting because they are not needed. When I get down towards the bottom of the Media Library, I see there are a lot of generic icons that look like pages. When I click on them they say attachment. What are these and why are they in my Media Library? Can I delete them? I have screenshots of this but I don’t see where I can insert or attach a screenshot to this post.

    Thanks in advance for any help with this problem

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  • Thread Starter geeky_girl01

    (@geeky_girl01)

    Thank you for your helpful advice. I thought thumbnails were small images less than 100×100, and I don’t really have any of those. Could you tell me what a thumbnail regenerator actually does?

    Thank you for all your help!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The Thumbnail Regenerator regenerates the thumbnails of the images in your media library which are used throughout WordPress, including in the media library display (where a small representation of the images should be appearing instead of those generic icons).

    Thread Starter geeky_girl01

    (@geeky_girl01)

    Hi,
    I appreciate all your help with this problem. I just wanted to let you know that I installed the plug-in, but I am still seeing rows and rows of generic icons. Do you have any more ideas?
    Thanks again

    I am having a similar problem. It only happens with larger images. I have a classifieds site and users will upload large photos sometimes and they will upload, show as an icon in the library and not actually attach to their posts. I am able to view the photos in their own url but they won’t show up in their posts. I notice the regenerate thumbnails seems to be working for existing photos. Does it also perform this automatically on future uploads or is this only a manual process? Thanks!

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