On our dev site, I’m experiencing issues with WordPress and how it’s suddenly handling Media Attachments. When I upload Media (such as an image) inside a post, it’s creating another Post (as a Draft) that simply references that media. Also, any changes to that piece of Media (in the Media Library) results in another Post.
For example, let’s say I am writing a post about Mark Twain. If I add an image of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, it will add it to the post fine. No problem. The issue is when I go back to the Posts Dashboard, I’ll see Draft Posts called Huck_Finn & Tom_Sawyer. These will be empty, uncategorized drafts without any content. It also appears to create a new post whenever I modify that piece of Media in the library. For example, if I were to have renamed Huck_Finn and Tom_Sawyer to Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, I’d see the following in the Posts Dashboard: Huck_Finn, Tom_Sawyer, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer.
From looking at
wp-admin/includes/post.php - line 197, the comment indicates that the parent was forced into existence (via a draft) because the attachment needs the parent to to have a valid id to associate with.I started deactivating plugins and it looks like it was a problem that was caused by the Content Audit plugin. wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-audit