Can’t fix broken link

  • I hate to trouble you about this, as it may or may not be about WordPress, but give me a second. I did something wrong and can’t seem to debug it. Of course, I’ve found that my computer and browser (Firefox) often lag way behind updates I’ve made to my site even if I clear the cache. I don’t know why, but they do. So maybe it will go away on its own in a couple of hours.But here’s what I’m seeing.

    If you go to my home page and click on the What’s New image a few paragraphs down, you are correctly taken to my What’s New page: /style/new.htm. And it shows at the top of the list my latest addition, on the Met’s reopened and relit European galleries. In the copy on my computer, which I could swear I’ve uploaded five times now, this link goes, correctly, to /met20.htm, about the Met. But when I am on my site online, that link goes to /new.htm (not /style/new.htm). That file should not even exist, but somehow the link takes you right back to the What’s New page. Since it’s directed to a copy (that, again, should not exist) in the site’s root directory, not in /style, its line referring the page to my style sheet is not functional, and it looks lousy. But worse, it’s just plain not going to /met20.htm.

    Or maybe you’ll see everything just fine. I’m puzzled. I should explain that the home page of my site, which looks like a blog, is in WordPress, housed in a /blog subfolder, while the other pages are in static html. I don’t know if this is relevant.

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  • Thread Starter jhaber31

    (@jhaber31)

    With apologies, the problem has indeed solved itself with time. You’d think that wouldn’t be needed. I’ve tried, after all, clearing Firefox in History, Clear Recent History and checking under privacy settings for manage data. I’ve set Firefox to clear on exit. I’ve run CCleaner and rebooted, but none of this seems to help, only time. Maybe it’s a WordPress issue, and maybe WordPress has its own cache that somehow extends to every link from my home page, even in the static html folders.

    You seem to be using a mixture of individually created HTML files and WordPress in a directory. I suspect that your browser’s cache may be confused. Perhaps a better solution would be to integrate the content of the static HTML pages into WordPress. Then everything would be in one place and you wouldn’t have any weird links.

    Thread Starter jhaber31

    (@jhaber31)

    Thanks, but I’m afraid I have to reject both points. I’m more and more convinced there’s an issue with WordPress caching.

    We can safely rule out the browser’s cache. As I’ve already said, I cleaned it both manually and by setting it to clear on exit. I’ve checked its cache in Manage Data. I’ve run CCleaner, which also attends to known browsers, and rebooted. I’d be a novice and an idiot if I hadn’t done all this before posting here. So seems like that leaves little else but WordPress. Besides, the problem corrects itself in time while I’m offline, suggesting that something online all the time has to change. (I do realize that managing the WordPress cache takes a plugin.)

    As for moving all my files to WordPress, that is impossible and sounds like a recipe for disaster. They’re hardly what WordPress is designed to help. I adopted WordPress for my home page some years back so that it would have such blog features as allowing comments, but the rest is in static html that long existed before it for good reason. Those pages generally run over 2000 words, and there are thousands of them by now. They also include menus to allow users to browse my site in various ways, plus a self-made search engine. All of this includes a graphic menu and more. Besides, I can’t think how, if it were possible, it could help in the least. There’s no (huh?) clash of blog and static posts in different directories and no way to get around thousands of internal links. They’re a feature, not a bug, and how could moving them to different locations help?

    So just forget it. I’ll look further into managing the cache.

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