non-wordpress pages on a wordpress hosted site not updating

  • I moved my hosting to GoDaddy WordPress hosting after GD assured me that the WP hosting would work fine with the 3 html (non-Wordpress) pages that I have on my site. They did work fine for a short time–just long enough for my 30-day trial to run out. Now, however, when I post an updated page, Chrome takes a while to show the new page and Firefox takes a couple of days (IE and Safari seem to update immediately). GD tech support said my only options are to switch those pages over to WP pages or lose the 3 years of hosting that I paid for up front and pay for another hosting package on a non-WP server. I would like to switch them over but it’s not that easy since one has a table with 10 auto-resize columns and I have no idea how to create that in WP. So I’ll have to first re-learn everything about WP that I no longer remember, update my old Weaver theme to the newest Weaver theme, learn how to make a child theme, and then learn how to customize these pages. I need to do all this anyway, but I work 2 full time jobs so it won’t happen quickly.

    In the meantime, is there a script I can add to my html pages (or to the appropriate WP file) that tells WP to go get the latest version from the server? If yes, do I need to change the html pages to php or other type of file and if so, where I can find info on doing that? These html files are in the same folder as the index.php, wp-blog-header.php, etc., files are. The most important html page (i.e., most visitors) is StephieSmith.com/contests.html

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  • Do you have any caching turned on for these pages? Caching can be turned on inside of a .htaccess file or even at the server level. If you are looking at cached pages it could take days for them to rotate out of the cache.

    Thread Starter stephiesmith6

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    Bob, I didn’t turn any caching on for these pages, but possibly GoDaddy did, though they aren’t WordPress pages and it’s a WordPress managed server, so these pages probably aren’t managed by any of their server stuff. I did go into my wp-admin and clear the cache in case it was affecting the refresh of these pages, but it didn’t do anything. Firefox did start showing the latest version about 48 hours after it had been uploaded to my site. IE shows it immediately, Chrome a bit later, and Firefox at some point in the future.

    Thread Starter stephiesmith6

    (@stephiesmith6)

    SOLVED
    After many months of calls and much frustration, I happened to get a godaddy rep who knew what the problem was. Apparently, when my site was created, there was supposed to be a plug-in added that added a GoDaddy menu at the top of the dashboard page. Under that menu there is a “Flush Cache” option which actually does flush the cache. The rep helped me install that plug-in. So now when I update one of the non-wordpress (my html) pages, I go in there and manually flush the cache. It works within 5 minutes.

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