Home page stuck for 5 days

Your expiry has been set too long (1 month).

In your Browser Cache, under HTML/XML, choose a low value such as 3600.

If you want fresh pages for every visit, also choose the last option.

Apart from that I don’t understand your comment well, but the above should help improve.

Thanks for the info I think I am getting closer to the solution

So you saying in W3 under browser cache set a low value and update.

Out of interest where do you see the expires header 1 month.

Using Chrome DevTools

https://developer.chrome.com/devtools

(It’s possible you may have set a high expiry originally but W3TC overrides it to 1 month in that case).

Ok I have made those changes to the plugin and cleared the cache.

Still no difference, I am coming close to re-installing site but it does seem like overkill to solve this annoying issue.

Do you see any change in the expires header now?

https://www.rogerperkin.co.uk

I am still confused as to the expires header, as my understanding is that this is a browser setting, so if you had not been to my site before you would be pulling down a new version.

How was this working before as if I made a change to the homepage it appeared instantly – could this be a theme bug? I have also changed them upgrade etc.

Yeah I still see 1 month.

There are a few things about Varnish cache … Maybe that’s where the problem is in that case … but I don’t have any knowledge to help you (if that’s causing some issue here).

Yes old visitors’ browsers will load from their cache but I also loaded it without cache (DevTools allows that) and checked. Still 1 month.

Don’t think it’s theme bug or anything. Just something about caches.

This is W3 Total cache – not sure what Varnish cache is?

If I deleted my entire wordpress install and restored the site would this fix the problem?

Ignore my comment on Varnish. I thought I saw it in your headers but no longer see it.

It’s possible that if you reinstall WordPress, your problems can go but it’s also possible it might not.

Try this: go to your backend and delete the subfolder named cache in the folder wp-content.

Check if it works.

I have deleted the cache folder and the config folder and deleted the plugin.

I have since managed to get my .htaccess updated to reflect expires time of 3600 seconds but – still not made any difference..

Sorry it didn’t help.

Do you have your cache set to “no cache” in Browser settings?

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I have just done that,

I am thinking now this is a hosting issue as I have previously deleted the plugin, cache folder and config folder

Will see if the no cache makes any difference

I have now narrowed the problem down to something in my database, I have deleted my entire site and re-installed a clean wordpress.

The new home page is blank – no cached page. Once I point back to my database the old home page comes back –

Not sure where this is being saved now but not a W3 Total Cache issue

Oh. I now see your background has changed from blue to white. So there is some change at least.

No but that is also an old cached page

So the deal is I delete the entire site and re-install wordpress and the stuck home page goes away.

I then re-point my site to the database and the stuck page comes back, so I think I need to be looking into the database for any reference to W3 and remove

It is referencing this style sheet which was also deleted on saturday?

https://www.rogerperkin.co.uk/wp-content/themes/epik/style.css?ver=2.2.2

I see the reference to this sheet.

https://www.rogerperkin.co.uk/wp-content/themes/executive-pro/style.css?ver=3.0.0

Btw, W3TC also has a database cache. Is it on for you? You could turn it off.