Title: WP creates parent posts
Last modified: November 5, 2018

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# WP creates parent posts

 *  [delcour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delcour/)
 * (@delcour)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-creates-parent-posts/)
 * I have Pods to create custom post type, in this case ‘vertolker’.
    I have WPUF
   installed for front end publishing, set to pending review. In WPUF I created 
   a form ‘Vertolker’ which works fine, safe for the field ‘add image’. When this
   is included, when publishing the post, the message is: invalid post ID. I then
   return tot he post, the wheel is spinning and does not stop, suggesting an endless
   loop. I refresh the page, the post reappears, but without the uploaded image.
   I publish the post and end up with two posts, one being the child of the other.
   I add an image or change any field and in updating another child post is created.
   I have searched everywhere, but have no idea why this is happening. It must be
   to do with the uploaded images. No other field created this problem.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwp-creates-parent-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-creates-parent-posts/#post-10847245)
 * You need to ask in the plugin’s support forum since it is not an issue with WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [delcour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delcour/)
 * (@delcour)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-creates-parent-posts/#post-10847277)
 * Point taken.
    I was hoping someone could explain about parent posts since googling
   revealed this hardly ever happens. The plugin causes it, but why does WP do this?
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-creates-parent-posts/#post-10847317)
 * I have never used those plugins, so I don’t know what they are doing. Don’t assume
   that WP did it. It likely didn’t.
    Images are stored in the same table as posts.
   They are a custom post type, actually, “attachment”, with meta data for the file
   name and sizes, etc., including the field called `parent`, which is the post 
   ID of the post that the image is attached to. If you interrupted something that
   a plugin was doing, no telling what really happened.

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## Tags

 * [child post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-post/)
 * [endless loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/endless-loop/)
 * [parent post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parent-post/)
 * [wpuf](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wpuf/)

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 * Last reply from: [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-creates-parent-posts/#post-10847317)
 * Status: not resolved

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