lanzilli

You Sir, are a Rockstar! The exact blind spot I need light on. With that, I have resolved the issue. @gappiah for the win! Thank you, kindly.

Just FYI – The problem was in the name server, not the hosting server. After I flushed the cache there and toggled Cloudflare CDN it was fine.

Thanks @threadi. So my .htaccess file contains:

# BEGIN LSCACHE
# END LSCACHE
# BEGIN NON_LSCACHE
# END NON_LSCACHE

#BEGIN_ADSTXTMANAGER_HTACCESS_HANDLER
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Redirect 301 /ads.txt https://srv.adstxtmanager.com/13069/saltsugarspice.com
</IfModule>
#END_ADSTXTMANAGER_HTACCESS_HANDLER

# Use PHP70 as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php70 .php
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
# suPHP_ConfigPath /opt/php70/lib
</IfModule>

# BEGIN Really Simple SSL Redirect 5.3.1
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !wp-content\/cache\/(all|wpfc-mobile-cache)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/acme-challenge/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
# END Really Simple SSL Redirect
# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between “BEGIN WordPress” and “END WordPress” are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

# php — BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the “ea-php74” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php74___lsphp .php .php7 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php — END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit`

Should I delete everything in there and only replace it with that first snippet in your link?

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

What if I also used this:

# DISABLE CACHING
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
    Header set Expires 0
</IfModule>

obtained from: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/apache-web-server/turning-off-caching-using-htaccess

WP Fastest Cache is definitely deactivated. I have Prevent Browser Caching plug-in installed and active but suppose to be working to prevent caching, which it’s not doing. I’ll probably uninstall.

Thank you @threadi .. would you mind elaborating on “look into the .htaccess file, if there are any caching entries”?

Many thanks @alanp57. I copied and pasted your message to the theme support. It did say that the WP-Paginate plugin was successfully tested with my theme version.