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  • I have installed WordPress on my server & created a custom theme for it. All going ok, except I made a change to the stylesheet that is used for the WYSIWIG editor when creating posts….. after much frustration & messing around the change finally took place after about 20 mins.

    Now I have applied some CSS changes to my main stylesheet of the blog (stylesheet.css); however after over an hour the changes still haven’t taken effect; additionally, I added some new categories at the same time & they are also not being output.

    I have read this page already: http://codex.wordpress.org/I_Make_Changes_and_Nothing_Happens

    * I have tried clearing my browser cache
    * I have tried doing a hard refresh (ctrl+F5)
    * I am NOT using any caching plugins
    * This happens on BOTH my localhost and my server, so it is not an isolated case
    * This is ONLY happening with WP, changes on other pages throughout the site happen instantly

    I have viewed the stylesheet by itself & it shows the updated CSS; but when WP loads it, it loads the old file.

    Please help!!

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    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    I’m sorry but the blog is a part of the whole site & the site is still under lockdown & isn’t viewable by the public.

    I know that isn’t very helpful, sorry.

    Yeah, it does sound like caching. I can only suggest double checking that your host does not use caching on their servers and make double-sure you’ve cleared everything. Try another browser too. And if CSS changes are not taking effect, make sure you don’t have any mark-up or CSS errors that are causing that.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    Well, I got it to update (atleast the CSS). I actually had to make changes to the actual post for it to update the page; however the category list is still not updating.

    Still sounds like caching, but the usual trouble-shooting steps might be worth a try –

    deactivating plugins and switching to the default theme ; also resetting the plugins folder in case any are not completely deactivating.

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    I guess I could give it a try, but I assume changing the theme would work anyway as it wouldn’t be cached haha

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    Well even though it’s happening locally too, I got my host to check for caching & they said the server had “eAccelerator”; they cleared the cache & disabled it…. however as expected the issues didn’t go away; so it must be a WP issue of some kind.

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    Ok, figured out the categories issue. Seems it’s because by default it only outputs categories that have posts 🙂

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    Ok, I have confirmed the caching issues only happen for LOGGED IN users; if you log out the css updates fine. WP must do some kind of caching by default.

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