Caching Problem?

by rhinocl Posted: 14 years ago 2 replies

Yesterday I was changing the css for a WordPress site on GoDaddy. I wasat a wi-fi site. The site I was working on had no caching plugins installed.
I make the change, hit ctrl-F5 a few times,browsed away from the page, cleaned out my cache, repeated this in Firefox and Chrome. Nothing happened.
I couldn't figure out why not as I knew I had changed the correct section of the code.
Then 35 minutes later when I go back to the site to work on something else the change is live.

Any idea what I missed that could have kept the old version in the cache?

#website design #caching #problem

briangriffin 14 years ago
You can add a version number as a query string on the end of the URL of the CSS file in your HTML so the browser thinks it is a different file each time you change it.
HTML Code:
```
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css?version=1.1" />
```
Just change the version number if you want to force the browser to download the updates.
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tknoppe 14 years ago

With most changes you make at Godaddy, they will give you a message as to approximately how long it will be before you may see those changes. Never have I seen a message that said the changes would be instant. Some message state with 10 minutes, others up to 48 hours.

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Caching Problem?

rhinocl • 14 years ago • 2 replies

Yesterday I was changing the css for a WordPress site on GoDaddy. I wasat a wi-fi site. The site I was working on had no caching plugins installed. I make the change, hit ctrl-F5 a few times,browsed away from the page, cleaned out my cache, repeated this in Firefox and Chrome. Nothing happened. I couldn't figure out why not as I knew I had changed the correct section of the code.