Title: Image settings
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Image settings

 *  Resolved [Carlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccozzi/)
 * (@ccozzi)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-settings/)
 * Hey Mike,
 * Is there a manual of WP-Tiles somewhere? I am going up the wall over the image
   settings. I have no clue at all what the difference is between a image in a post
   or an attached image. WP suggest these are the same whereas WP-Tiles says it’s
   treating them differently. Besides all that, I cannot for the life of me figure
   out what a media post is.
 * What I am trying to do is put the occasional picture in my tile-page between 
   all those text-tiles without switching on in-post scanning for images; i.e. I
   am looking for the fastest technique to display a single image as a tile. I suspect
   I have to do this by making this illusive “media-post”…
 * Thanks in advance for any advice…
 * Carlo
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tiles/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tiles/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mike Martel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_cowobo/)
 * (@mike_cowobo)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-settings/#post-5865539)
 * Hi [@carlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlo/)!
 * First the solution: add your images as ‘[Featured Image](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails)‘
   and set the WP Tiles image setting to `featured_only`.
 * Then, to answer your question: ‘media posts’ (attachments) are the objects WordPress
   creates when you upload an image. When you upload an image, WordPress creates
   a post for it, which you can view in the `Media` panel in WP Admin. So this has
   nothing to do with your blog posts – it’s a way for WordPress to represent your
   media.
 * These attachments can be associated with posts. If you upload an image to a post,
   there will be an internal marker in WordPress saying ‘This image belongs to this
   post’. When you set WP Tiles to `attached_only`, it will only look for images
   with that tag.
 * If you let WP Tiles look anywhere, it will first look for a featured image, then
   an attached image and lastly for image URLs in the post. That last step is what
   slowed down your website. So it you tell WP Tiles to only look for a featured
   image, it won’t slow down your site significantly.
 * Cheers,
    Mike
 *  Thread Starter [Carlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccozzi/)
 * (@ccozzi)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-settings/#post-5865541)
 * Ah, good morning, Great Saviour. (I don’t know where you are hanging now, but
   over here it is morning.) I will experiment and prevail… 🙂
 * Thanks for your short lesson. I needed that.

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