Title: edit-attachment-form.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# edit-attachment-form.php

 *  [chtito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chtito/)
 * (@chtito)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-attachment-formphp/)
 * Currently it is impossible to edit the attachment after they have been uploaded.
   I find that it is a pity since an attachment is nothing but a special post. Moreover
   the right line is there in the `post.php` file and it requires a non-existent
   file: `edit-attachment-form.php`.
 * Replacing this file by `edit-form-advanced.php` _apparently_ does the trick. 
   It’d be great if some of the developers could give some advice about that. Even
   better, if someone has written the file `edit-attachment-form.php`, i’d like 
   to have a look at it.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-attachment-formphp/#post-309376)
 * No idea on the reference to edit-attachment-form.php. Perhaps an overzealous 
   developer planning for the future (well, a possible future)?
 * The ability to edit attachments (i.e. uploads) from the post editor as if they’re
   regular posts would probably be a bit confusing to many. However, it would be
   nice (or at least logical) to be able to edit attachment titles and descriptions
   through the Browse options, instead of having to delete and re-upload.
 * By the by, with the “attachment slug” or rather postname of an attachment, you
   can use this query on your blog:
 * `?attachment=name-of-attachment`
 * Not very useful, but interesting. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [chtito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chtito/)
 * (@chtito)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-attachment-formphp/#post-309385)
 * Interesting indeed 🙂
 * I don’t think that it would be so confusing to edit an attachment like a post
   since when using the option “Linked to Page” the attachment appears exactly as
   a post. It has a title, a content and possibly comments. Beside, changing the
   code to allow to edit an attachment like a post would require very little work.
 * However i agree with you that one should also be able to edit an attachment’s
   information through the Browse options.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-attachment-formphp/#post-309385)
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