Changes Not Showing Up?

  • I just made changes to the all of the php template files in the default folder (I changed all the instances of class ‘narrowcolumn’ to ‘widecolumn’). I upload all of the new files, but pages are still coming out with ‘narrowcolumn’ in the source. I did a thorough search through all of the files in the entire wordpress directory and ‘narrowcolumn’ no longer exists anywhere. Yet it is still showing up in the source code on my site. I even created a new category and a new posting and it is showing up there. How can this be?

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  • Did you hit REFRESH? Better yet, did you clear the browser cashe files? In MSIE, Hold down the SHIFT and click the REFRESH button in the menu at the top of your screen. In Firefox, Cntrl+Shift+R. See if you can see the changes then.

    Thread Starter shiva777

    (@shiva777)

    Yes I did try that. I even tried creating a new category and a new post and it still shows up. I just triple checked and that word does not exist ANYWHERE in the wordpress files. How can this be showing up in the html source code? I am fairly experienced at this and I am just stumped here.

    Shiva, can you post a list to your page and maybe we can look see.

    You’re sure you checked your specific theme folder? I’ve done this for a while feeling crazy and then noticed I was in the wrong folder. I’m sure you didn’t but I’m grasping.

    WordPress doesn’t generate CSS on the fly. It is in the theme folders as part of the HTML, as far as I know.

    Here is another idea. Why not set a class or ID for narrowcolumn in your CSS file and set the background to RED and give it a GREEN border. Then go through all of your “pages” (main, single, category, archives, etc.) and see if anything shows up with a red background and green border. That will help isolate where it is.

    Also, if it isn’t effecting anything and you don’t have narrow column listed anywhere in your CSS or in any style in the header.php (or elsewhere), then ignore it. If it isn’t given a style it won’t “do” anything. By doing the above you will see if it impacts a specific area, which will show you where it is showing up (if in the header, then check the header file again, if in the footer, check there, if only in single, check there, if only in archives…..so on.). Then make sure there is no CSS reference and it will mean nothing because there is nothing to tell it to “do” anything.

    This is strange but I’m sure you’ll find it and smack your forehead when you do….I always do.

    Press F5 to make a real-refresh of your page.

    Tried that. Not the problem.

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