Title: What is image.php?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# What is image.php?

 *  Resolved [curtisblackwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtisblackwell/)
 * (@curtisblackwell)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-imagephp/)
 * I’m building a template theme to speed up my design process, and I want to try
   and make it of a high enough quality to release it publicly.
 * I’m starting from Elliott Jay Stocks’ Starkers theme which includes a file called
   image.php. I can’t find any documentation on it and I can’t figure out what it
   does or when it’s ever called.

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 *  [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/)
 * (@emg)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-imagephp/#post-1157213)
 * I don’t suppose it has anything to do with image attachments or image galleries?
 * I know some custom themes come with a custom page to deal with posts with image
   attachments and image galleries and the like; perhaps this is one such theme?
 * Try Googling image.php and WordPress and see if you get more concrete results.
 *  Thread Starter [curtisblackwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtisblackwell/)
 * (@curtisblackwell)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-imagephp/#post-1157422)
 * The image.php file is used when you link an image to the post-file in the image
   uploader.
 * If you click that image in the post, it will bring you to another post-like page
   that is about the image. A common use of the image.php file will post the caption
   and description on this page.
 *  [goochs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goochs/)
 * (@goochs)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-imagephp/#post-1157591)
 * image.php on my server was a hack from peru.. it allowed making directories and
   even creating mysql databases and editing the htaccess file. My server was suspended
   until I could find and clean out all the files

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