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It’s always helpful to include the version of WP that you’re running, it help narrow the search, from a needle in a hay-stack to a need in .9 hay-stacks!

On WP 2.0.2 I renamed my categories.php and I get the old faithful 404 error. It may have to do with a cache somewhere, you can try doing shift + refresh in your browser or clearing out your browser cache and seeing if that phantom page is still there. There is also a cache in the wp-content directory, but I’m not sure exactly what it does in relation to caching whole pages or if it does anything at all.

Maybe you just have a caring server, it won’t let you delete pages you need!?

Cheers,
Michael.

WP 2.0.2
I’ve tried clearing my browser cache, and I don’t see any cache in wp-content.
The Manage-Categories screen does work – it shows changes that I make to the Cats. It’s just running code I overwrote this A.M.
The newest version of categories.php is also there — I can activate it with the right navigation.

Someone is caching the old version, but only using it from the Manage-Categories entry, and not from other navigation.

I.E. My WP runs 2 different categories.php files simultaneously.

That is very, very odd – I think so anyway. Do you know who has the cached version? Is your WP install a “normal” one or do you have it mirrored/synced elsewhere or something like that?

Cheers,
Michael.

ok

Well a good niht’s sleep fixed it.

It seems that my WP installation has TWO categories.php

When using ‘Manage – Categories’ to initially get the edit screen, WP uses wp-content/plugins/categories.php
Other navigation uses wp-admin/categories.php

Apparently WP looks for at least some of its core files in plugins first – so at least one plugin can replace core files (catagories.php at least).

A real easy way to experiment with hacks!

Odd indeed. Problem is still there this AM, which probably clears the host of ‘illegal caching’.

The initial ‘cached’ page is produced by a hacked version I produced earlier, so I know I can affect it. It has a bit of