Authorship generated 404 errors

  • Resolved Dan Greene

    (@dgreene423)


    2 weeks, 2 days ago

    I’m seeing 404s that contain the strings /font/molongui-authorship-font.woff?30441601 and /font/molongui-authorship-font.woff2?30441601 quite a lot in my 404 logs. Nothing appears to be visually broken on the site, and it’s not a new issue, just one I happened to notice while taking a closer look at my logs recently. Any ideas why?

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  • Plugin Support Ryan Mitchell

    (@ryanmitchell)

    2 weeks ago

    Hi Dan,

    That ?30441601 at the end of the file path is a query string (usually a “cache buster”). We don’t add that in our plugin, so it’s almost certainly being tacked on by a performance or caching tool on your site.

    Plugins like WP Rocket, Autoptimize, LiteSpeed Cache, or even a service like Cloudflare often rewrite asset URLs like this to manage browser caching.

    The 404s usually happen when a caching plugin is still serving an old, cached CSS file that points to a query string or path that no longer exists on the server.

    A quick fix is usually to:

    • Clear all your site, server, and CDN caches.
    • Hit the “Purge/Regenerate CSS” option in your optimization plugin if it has one.

    Please give that a shot and let us know if those 404s keep popping up in your logs.

    Thread Starter Dan Greene

    (@dgreene423)

    2 weeks ago

    Thanks for the tip Ryan. I didn’t think about caching adding that string. That explains why it’s not consistently showing up, only when the cache expires.

    Plugin Support Ryan Mitchell

    (@ryanmitchell)

    2 weeks ago

    Glad to hear that helped clarify things, Dan! Thanks for following up and letting us know

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