Constantly REVERTING to last theme and old post

  • Resolved jackforde

    (@jackforde)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    So… help!

    I have this site — copywritersroundtable.com — that’s currently running on the “Anew” theme. Prior to that, I was using the “Ignite” theme, which I stopped using because I’d hoped the switch would get rid of nasty problem… but it did not.

    Here’s the problem:

    Every now and then, for no clear reason, the site reverts back to an old post and old layout of the “Ignite” theme… even when I’ve switched to “Anew” or anything else that’s in the active theme slot. I’ve actually emailed with the “Ignite” theme creator and I don’t think it’s something to do with that theme in particular. Seems more general, about my installation.

    Here’s the other weird part:

    If I go into the Dashboard, sometimes that’s enough to “unstick” the site and when I hit “visit” it goes to the post that should be there, with the proper new theme layout. Sometimes, though, that’s not enough and I have to run a plugin update (doesn’t matter which plugin) and THAT will unstick the site, giving me the proper and current post. And sometimes, I need to click on “recent post” to get it to change, at which point it’s normal again.

    But a week or two later, I’ll go back and the site has reverted back again. Any advice?

    Trick is, I don’t really know my way around PHP files etc. So if you’ve got any suggestions — and I hope you do! — please spell them out explicitly, step by step, if you’re willing. Otherwise, I won’t understand what to do!

    Regards,
    JF

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    *Looks*

    It’s not you. ?? It’s your caching plugin. This is in your site’s HTML source.

    <!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.623 seconds. -->
<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2014-09-29 03:19:56 -->

<!-- Compression = gzip -->

    You are changing your theme but your site is still serving the old pages.

    Use WP-Super-Cache to clear your cached pages, wipe out your browser’s cache and cookies and then revisit the site and see if that fixes it. I’ve never seen cached pages saved that long so I expect the caching is on both your server and browser.

    Thread Starter jackforde

    (@jackforde)

    Jan,

    Many thanks!

    A day later and all appears better.

    I installed WP Super Cache and used that to clear out the page you refer to. So far, it seems to be holding with the correct… newer… post and format.

    I wound up having another problem, with incredibly slow loading… which lead me to gtmetrix.com… and a long online conversation with my host company (I still think they had something weird going on at their end, but they didn’t seem to think so).

    Of all things, and I post it just “fyi” for the next reader(s) of this… I managed to get my site to load more quickly but first opening up a VPN connection and re-entering the Dashboard.

    Once I did that, things were fast enough that I could go into the host company account and delete a lot of excess themes, plus — in the WP Dashboard again — turn off a few unneeded plugins.

    But I think I got the biggest speed boost by replacing the new and good Super Cache plugin with what seems like an even better one, W3 Total Cache.

    Long story short, before writing to you… my site wouldn’t refresh with the current page or theme and it was running crazy slow. Now, thanks to you and the path you set me on, it loads lightening fast and with the right content.

    So, again… many thanks!

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