TablePress Being Cached by Chrome

  • Resolved RedTravelMaster

    (@redtravelmaster)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    I wanted to bring this to your attention, not sure if anyone else has identified this issue.

    I’ve been working with your excellent plugin for a while, trying to add custom CSS styling, but was completely unable to get consistent results. Sometimes, the CSS styling would work, other times would not. This was not an issue with my Theme causing conflicts, as I changed themes to a WordPress core theme to test.

    I finally identified that the TablePress code is impacted by the Cache function in Google Chrome browser. In order to get new CSS to work (assuming I wrote it correctly) I have to go into Chrome’s “Browsing Data” and use “Clear Cached Images and Files.” Then I can see results of my new CSS styling.

    I have not experienced this issue with CSS for any other WordPress function.

    Has this been reported by anyone else?

    Thanks,
    Ron

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    I don’t think that this is specific to TablePress, on your site. It seems that something (the theme or another plugin) is stripping the “cache-busting” URL parameters (something like ...?ver=1.12 at the end of URLs for CSS and JS files). Due to this, the browser follows the caching guidelines that your server gives it (which is to cache files for some period of time).

    So, the “best” fix would be to find out what’s removing these cache-busting URL parameters.

    Note that a quicker way of manually clearing the cache in the browser might be to “force reload” the page, via the keyboard shortcut “Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+R”.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter RedTravelMaster

    (@redtravelmaster)

    Thanks. Yes, I’ve been manually clearing the browser cache every time I make a CSS change, so at least I can see my changes.

    I have confirmed this is not unique to Google Chrome. I’m seeing the same issue in MS Edge as well.

    Ron

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi Ron,

    this is another indicator for the cause being the removed cache-busting URL parameters. I can really only suggest to re-allow those, in the theme or plugin that is currently removing them.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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