Photon not showing updated images

I have flushed Photon’s cache for that image. The previously cached image should be completely deleted within the next 15 to 20 minutes.

In the future, and to avoid such issues, I would recommend uploading an image with a different file name whenever you want to refresh an image on your site; since the image has a different file name, you won’t experience any cache issues.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the response. The filenames are renamed by the Connections plug-in so I have no control over the names. Connections plug-in renames the images to match the entry’s slug, converts the image to JPG, and does resizing of uploaded images.

Maybe there should be a disclaimer that Photon doesn’t work with certain plug-ins?

Also, that URL above was an example URL, not my actual URL which I was having problems with. I fixed the problem by deleting the entry to create a new/different entry slug and then uploaded the logo, which was renamed to the new entry’s slug.

Thanks for the extra details.

Since there are no Photon cache invalidations {the images are cached “forever”), you will indeed experience issues when editing the image through that plugin, since it seems to overwrite the previous image while keeping the same file name.

The only work around is the one you’ve suggested. Another solution is to contact us, like we did, so we flush the cache for that exact image for you.

Thanks. Looks like I can’t use Photon then. If I have to generate new slugs for each entry each time I need to change an image, then search engine referrals will result in 404s. I was lucky to change this slug (the entry’s name was actually changed), but I’ll still get 404s. I can’t really do that for all future changes.

Adding a button to the wp admin to invalidate the cache for a site, would be very useful. Please consider some sort of invalidation routine either site wide or for specific images. Or possibly allow an option for a time expired cache (24 hrs, 48 hrs, etc.).