editing style.css changes site after a few hours

  • Silver007A

    (@silver007a)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    When I am making edits to my website style.css it seems to be taking a long time to refresh and display the edits.

    I don’t have any cache plugins or security and all plugins are up to date.

    If I change a file name via FTP, say wp-content/themes to wp-content/themes2, the site breaks. If I change style.css to style1.css the site works fine.

    I’ve also edited style.css via the editor in WP admin back end and downloaded that same file via FTP and the changes are showing, yet it doesn’t change how the site looks.

    Can you help please?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 8 months ago

    So even this doesn’t work:

    body {
    border: 10px solid red !important;
}

    If not then you probably have a CSS syntax error.

    Have you been working in a Child Theme?

    Thread Starter Silver007A

    (@silver007a)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Doesn’t matter what I change in style.css.

    I’ve checked it on other pcs too in case it is a cache issue.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 8 months ago

    So have you explored the case of a syntax error?

    Thread Starter Silver007A

    (@silver007a)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Not sure what you mean by syntax?

    I can change any of the site, like <h1> to 50px font size and nothing changes for at least an hour.

    I can make changes, but they take an hour or more to take affect on the site.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Okay ignore that syntax issue, but what methods have you done to check whether it’s a caching issue other than looking at other pcs?

    Thread Starter Silver007A

    (@silver007a)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    That’s all.

    I’ve cleared my cache, opened a browser I never use. Two people who would never have seen the site see the same as I see.

    I don’t have any cache plugins.

    I haven’t done anything else.

    I’ve now changed template to Twenty Eleven. I’ve made some edits and they are not showing.

    I’ll wait a while and see if the edits finally change the site appearance.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Your hosting providers can still be caching your site, have you discussed it with them?

    Thread Starter Silver007A

    (@silver007a)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hosting have checked it twice server side and no problem.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 8 months ago

    The best thing you can do for us then is to link a webpage with the issue

    Thread Starter Silver007A

    (@silver007a)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    This is using Twenty Eleven

    http://www.fstf.co.uk/

    These are some of the changes I just made to font size-

    #site-title a {
    color: #111;
    font-size: 60px;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 36px;

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Does the issue persist if you use a plugin to hold your CSS modifications?
    http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/

    Thread Starter Silver007A

    (@silver007a)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    All the edits I made to twenty eleven have changed on the site now. I’ve been refreshing the site every 5 minutes for approx 2 hours.

    So an edit takes 2 hours to show online 🙁

    Thread Starter Silver007A

    (@silver007a)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve now tried editing other sites and it isn’t updating. I’ve emailed my host tech supp again.

    Maybe it is server side after all.

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