nemi313

Hi Cadiz yes I got to the bottom of it, in my case it was the cache with my host at StackCP causing the problem. I don’t know why, but it was cycling through all changes I made to the site over the last day or so, which is how long it keeps cached data for I think before automatically clearing it. No amount of manual cache clearing did anything, and neither did enabling ‘development mode’. I had to disable caching on StackCP completely to fix the issues, and installed the plugin W3 Total Cache as a replacement.

I also discovered whilst researching the problem that similar issues can be caused by Chrome: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26111389/chrome-keeps-loading-a-old-cache-of-my-website

Thanks, clearing caches on server and wiping and starting over haven’t helped sadly, I’m still having these issues. Any changes I make to the site are not consistent – the site cycles through the changes I’ve made. Eg. If I change themes, the site alternates between the two themes, if I update some content on a page the page alternates between the old and the new content. It’s the same across Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and on my smartphone, I asked a family member to try on their computer and it’s still the same.

Things I’ve tried:

Clearing my browser data & cache
Purging cache on server
Disabling cache on server and enabling ‘development mode’
Installing a cache plugin on WordPress and clearing data & cache
Resetting my router
Wiping site data

After a day or two of not making any changes to my site the issue resolves, the site eventually seems to ‘forget’ the previous changes and stops loading the old themes and content. But as soon as I start making changes it starts cycling through them and no amount of cache clearing actually seems to do anything at all. It wouldn’t be so bad if it just took the site a while to update new content, but the cycling makes it virtually unusable. It does seem like a caching issue, but where is it coming from? I’d be really grateful for any suggestions?

Thanks for the reply! So I need to wipe the site and restart?

Why do you think that?

I’m still having these issues with all other plugins deactivated and only the BuddyBoss plugin active, I don’t know what is causing it or is the root of the problem. And I need BuddyBoss for my site so I can’t just uninstall that.