Theme Generating Unecessary Pages/ Duplicate Content?

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I recently noticed that Google is indexing a bunch of pages from my site that it shouldn’t be. Some, like the image attachment pages make sense to me (and I understand how to noindex them in Yoast).

Others, I don’t understand why they’re being generated. I spoke to my hosting support, and they said since it’s not a default WordPress thing, they may be created by theme settings.

For example, there’s multiple posts that were created with all the content on a single page (so there shouldn’t be a page 2 or 3), but these posts now have variations showing up in Google’s index with a 2 or 3 appended to the URL like this:

https://choosytraveler.com/best-travel-books-2017/2/

I also don’t understand what this is, it looks like an attachment page, but it has multiple images on it (and again, my hosting support says this format isn’t WordPress default):

https://choosytraveler.com/fuji-xt2-best-travel-cameras-2017-125/

The attachment pages with multiple images are just sort of weird to me, but mostly I’m concerned with preventing the theme from generating duplicate content with slightly different URLs. What is going on with the first example? Can I stop it from happening?

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Hello,
The first is a well known wordpress isssue and not theme related in any way. This would happen on any at all theme including the wp default themes. You cna add any at all number after a post and will not provide a 404:
https://choosytraveler.com/best-travel-books-2017/399999999999999/

The second link seems to be an archve though but it provides a 404 error now. https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index
It again is a wordpress feature, not a theme feature.

Thank you!

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So WordPress is actually generating these extra pages with numbers at the end of the URL? I guess it makes sense to me what you’re saying about being able to add any numbers to the end of the URL, I’m just not clear on how Google ends up indexing URLs that should only exist hypothetically.

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Unfortunately this has always been the case with WordPress.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Thank you!

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