Long delays before settings, posts are displayed

  • [Earlier today I posted a related question at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/77362?replies=3. I later marked it as “resolved” after a helpful comment, but I’ve now realized that the issue is somewhat more widespread–hence this new thread.]

    Hi, all,

    I’m encountering a rather mysterious delay in getting various settings and posts to display. I’m running WP 2.0.3.

    To take one example: Under Options>General in the admin interface, I’ll change the “tagline” field and click the “Update Options” button. “Options saved,” I’m told. Great! I’ll then view my site but not see the changes reflected. I’ll reload, and get nothing again. I’ll empty the cache, or try a different browser, and still get nothing. After a long delay–normally something like 15-20 minutes, though sometimes longer–the changes will take effect.

    I’ve discovered one thing that will force the changes to take effect immediately, though, and that’s changing the site’s theme. I’m not sure if this points toward the root of the problem or its solution.

    I’m essentially a WP newbie. Is there such a thing as rebuilding the database, etc? A way to “force” various changes to take effect without resorting to backdoor measures like the theme change?

    Thanks for your time and consideration.

    Nate

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  • are you using the wp-cache plugin ? what isp are you using ? who’s your hosting provider ?

    it’s likely that one of the above is the issue, someone is caching the old content somewhere along the line. if you want fresh content delivered with each request, you can try either the old method of setting “pragma nocache” in the headers, or the newer more preferred method for accomplishing the same thing using meta tags in your header php.

    I wrote a rather lengthy reply to a post a while back explaining the various methods used by isp’s and hosting companies for caching content to conserve bandwidth, and the related problems that causes with WP, I’m not going to rewrite that here,but I should probably spend some time getting that info added to the codex, since this issue seems to pop up relatively often.

    Thread Starter Nate

    (@nateolson)

    chradil,

    Thanks very much for the reply.

    1. Yes, I *am* using the WP-Cache plugin. Likely culprit, I’d say.
    2. At the moment my ISP is Adelphia.
    3. My host is DreamHost. They’re actually the ones who recommended the WP-Cache plugin; they automatically put it into the wp-content/plugins folder as part of their one-click install of WP.

    In Options>WP-Cache, the “Expire time” is set to 3600 seconds, which is a factory setting. This is the problem, no? And as the plugin developer says on his site, I probably don’t even need this on unless the site gets major traffic, right?

    Thanks again,

    Nate

    Thread Starter Nate

    (@nateolson)

    chradil et al.,

    Well, perhaps WP-Cache isn’t the problem, after all! I deactivated it and experimented a bit, and I *still* couldn’t get my changes to go through with a simple reload.

    Can you point me to a tutorial that discusses the method of using meta tags in the header php? I’m willing to give that a try.

    Thanks!

    Nate

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