Changes in Dashboard show up and then vanish! Core installation broken?

  • Hello,

    I’m currently struggling with CPU spikes that are not caused by plugins or themes.
    Not sure if this is related, but I thought I should mentioned beforehand.

    When I deactivate plugins, I get the “plugin deactivated”, but in the list nothing has changed. When I bulk activate all plugins, they are still shown as deactivated although they are activated.

    When I delete comments and go back to the main dashboard, the same comments show up again as if I had not deleted them.

    This happens even when all plugins are deactivated and I run a standard WordPress theme.

    Could it be that my core installation is messed up?

    This happened recently, not sure if it’s related to upgrading to WP 4.7.4

    What can I do now?
    Do I have to do a clean installation of WordPress?
    Any other options?
    Anybody else also had similar issues?

    Thank you in advance.

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  • Thread Starter japanworm

    (@japanworm)

    I also noticed something else.
    I updated my CSS stylesheet.
    The updated version is definitely visibla in my FTP and in my Dashboard, but won’t trigger on the site. The site still loads a previous stylesheet.
    I have disabled Browser leverage and deactivated my cache plugin. I’ve emptied my browser cache.
    Nothing helps.

    This is all so weird, what’s going on, please?

    Thank you.

    Hi and sorry the the issues. It sounds to me that you may be experiencing a cache issue from your host but given the canned response back from most hosts, you will never really know.

    What you can do is start checking off other items like simply downloading a clean copy of WordPress and uploading it to your site while over riding what is there. This will ensure that you have the latest files but will not mess with your theme and uploads nor DB. Be sure to create a backup before hand. Overall, there is not need for a clean install.

    If this does not fix any of the issues, I am willing to bet that it has something to do with your host. If you are on lower level shared hosting, you are going to have issues like this. Hosting companies have to manage a ton of sites on a single server and to do so, they use some extreme measures to cache on the server side of things.

    Contact your host and see if they are currently doing anything. Chances are that if they are doing something, you are not the only one saying something and they know about the issue.

    Thread Starter japanworm

    (@japanworm)

    In fact, I’ve been in permanent contact with my host about the CPU issue.
    They would have told me if there are others with the same problem.

    Not sure about the caching, though.
    I’ve disabled everything on my side… and this never happened before. ??

    Umm. I am not certain that they would tell you if there was others with the same issue. I for one have multiple clients on the same shared server and all of them had the same issue. The host denied changes and then days later found out that they did know but support did not know.

    I am almost sure that you are having issues due to heavy server cache outside the realms of your control.

    Thread Starter japanworm

    (@japanworm)

    I did change two core files in the past few days, though.

    Could somebody maybe have a look and let me know if there’s anything weird in these files that could cause the wird WordPress behavior?

    wp-config: https://pastebin.com/4aLsQGi7

    htaccess: https://pastebin.com/J1DPnbBB

    Thread Starter japanworm

    (@japanworm)

    Also, I disabled hosting caching. They gave me the code to do so.

    
RewriteRule (.*) - [E=Cache-Control:no-cache]

    It just didn’t change anything.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by japanworm.
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