Widget Keeps Reverting to Data From 2 Weeks Ago

I assume it’s caused by a caching plugin. Are you using one?

I am not. I have a Varnish Purge Cache plugin and I tried deactivating that but it didn’t solve the problem. Here is a list of my plugins:

Akismet
Settings | Deactivate | Edit
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from spam. It keeps your site protected even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet plan to get an API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.
Version 3.2 | By Automattic | View details

Book Review
Settings | Deactivate | Edit
Add book information such as title, author, publisher and cover photo to enhance your review posts.
Version 2.3.8 | By Donna Peplinskie | View details

Contact Form 7
Settings | Deactivate | Edit
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Version 4.6 | By Takayuki Miyoshi | View details

EWWW Image Optimizer
Settings | Deactivate | Edit
Reduce file sizes for images within WordPress including NextGEN Gallery and GRAND FlAGallery. Uses jpegtran, optipng/pngout, and gifsicle.
Version 3.2.2 | By Shane Bishop | View details

Facebook Thumb Fixer
Settings | Help | Deactivate | Edit
Fixes the problem of the missing (or wrong) thumbnail when a post is shared on Facebook and Google+.
Version 1.6 | By Michael Ott | View details

Google Analytics Dashboard for WP
Settings | Deactivate | Edit
Displays Google Analytics Reports and Real-Time Statistics in your Dashboard. Automatically inserts the tracking code in every page of your website.
Version 4.9.5 | By Alin Marcu | View details

GR Progress
Deactivate | Edit
Displays shelves and reading progress from Goodreads.
Version 1.4.0 | By Christer van der Meeren | View details

Inline Comments
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Inline Comments adds your comment system to the side of paragraphs and other sections (like headlines and images) of your post. It performs native with WordPress comments.
Version 2.2.2.1 | By Kevin Weber | View details

Insert Headers and Footers
Deactivate | Edit
Allows you to insert code or text in the header or footer of your WordPress blog
Version 1.3.3 | By WPBeginner | View details

Jetpack by WordPress.com
Jetpack | Settings | Support | Deactivate | Edit
Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.
Version 4.4.2 | By Automattic | View details

MailChimp for WordPress
Settings | Deactivate | Edit
MailChimp for WordPress by ibericode. Adds various highly effective sign-up methods to your site.
Version 4.0.11 | By ibericode | View details | Documentation | Upgrade to Premium

Medium
Deactivate | Edit
Publish posts automatically from your blog to a Medium profile.
Version 1.4.0 | By A Medium Corporation | View details

Postmatic Basic
Deactivate | Edit | Settings
Version 2.0.14 | By Postmatic | View details

RefTagger
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Transform Bible references into links to the full text of the verse.
Version 2.0.3 | By Logos Bible Software | View details

Seriously Simple Podcasting
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Podcasting the way it’s meant to be. No mess, no fuss – just you and your content taking over the world.
Version 1.15.1 | By Hugh Lashbrooke | View details | Documentation | Add-ons | Write a review

Seriously Simple Podcasting Genesis Support
Deactivate | Edit
Adds full compatibility for the Genesis theme framework to Seriously Simple Podcasting.
Version 1.0 | By Hugh Lashbrooke | View details

Seriously Simple Stats
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Integrated analytics and stats tracking for Seriously Simple Podcasting.
Version 1.1 | By Hugh Lashbrooke | View details

Simple Social Icons
Deactivate | Edit
A simple CSS and SVG driven social icons widget.
Version 2.0.1 | By Nathan Rice | View details

Ultimate Category Excluder
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Easily exclude categories from your front page, feeds, archives, and search results.
Version 1.1 | By Marios Alexandrou | View details

Varnish HTTP Purge
Deactivate | Edit
Automatically purge Varnish Cache when content on your site is modified.
Version 4.0.2 | By Mika Epstein | View details

WP Ajaxify Comments
Deactivate | Edit | Settings
WP Ajaxify Comments hooks into your current theme and adds AJAX functionality to the comment form.
Version 1.4.1 | By weweave GbR | View details

WP-Optimize
Optimizer | Settings | Deactivate | Edit
WP-Optimize is WordPress’s #1 most installed optimization plugin. With it, you can clean up your database easily and safely, without manual queries.
Version 2.1.0 | By David Anderson, Ruhani Rabin, Team Updraft | View details

If you could give me the address of your website, I can see if I see the old or new config on my end. Please also let me know how to differentiate the old and new config.

Sure thing. My site is https://www.krissinclair.com

The config that it keeps reverting to shows two books: “We Cannot Be Silent” by Al Mohler and “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism” by Carl F.H. Henry

The current config that it should be showing is four books titled “Conscience”, “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart”, “Truth in a Culture of Doubt”, and “The Whole Christ.”

I see the old one with the two books. I’m not sure what could be causing this. AFAIK there is nothing in the code that could cause this. You say you see the new version right after saving the widget settings? Can you explain to me step by step what you do to see the new version, and then the old version? Also, is there any difference if you don’t tick “reset cover URL cache” (which should not be necessary)?

What I usually do is go to the widget settings, tick the “reset cover URL cache” option, then select save. After it saves I visit my site and upon first visit everything is current and showing the four books. But if i navigate to another page on my site or if I refresh the page, it reverts back to the two books.

I just tried it now without resetting the URL cover cache and it did the same thing.

I also just noticed this plugin listed in the “drop-ins” menu. Don’t have any idea what it is or how it got there and there is no way to deactivate it.

object-cache.php
Memcached Redux
External object cache.

The real Memcached (not Memcache) backend for the WP Object Cache.

Version 0.1.2 | By Scott Taylor – uses code from Ryan Boren, Denis de Bernardy, Matt Martz, Mike Schroder

It might be the drop-in cache plugin. Not sure how to remove that.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by cmeeren.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by cmeeren.

Okay so I FTP’d into my site and deleted that drop in plugin mentioned above and now everything works!

Turns out it was installed alongside a caching plugin I had installed and when I uninstalled the caching plugin, the drop-in wasn’t removed.

Thanks for your help and fast response and thanks for a great plugin!

Great! Happy to hear it got resolved, and that it was a caching issue after all. ??