Title: image.php and attachment.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# image.php and attachment.php

 *  [longwing1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longwing1/)
 * (@longwing1)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagephp-and-attachmentphp/)
 * If I have an image.php file in my theme folder, what uses the attachment.php 
   file?
 * Thanks

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagephp-and-attachmentphp/#post-777623)
 * Good question… It seems that in the latest release (2.5.1) the attachment.php
   has been replaced by the image.php in the default theme.
    So, my guess is you
   don’t need both – only one of them. Sorry that I cannot be more helpful; I am
   also looking for any information about this change but couldn’t find any.
 *  Thread Starter [longwing1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longwing1/)
 * (@longwing1)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagephp-and-attachmentphp/#post-777636)
 * moshu, thanks for jumping in. maybe it’s there for backward compatabillity. I
   guess I can delete it and see if anything really horrible happens.
 * Thanks again.

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