Title: Authorship generated 404 errors
Last modified: August 3, 2026

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# Authorship generated 404 errors

 *  Resolved [Dan Greene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/)
 * (@dgreene423)
 * [2 weeks, 2 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorship-generated-404-errors/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanmitchell/)
 * (@ryanmitchell)
 * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorship-generated-404-errors/#post-18984331)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/)
 * (@dgreene423)
 * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorship-generated-404-errors/#post-18984977)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanmitchell/)
 * (@ryanmitchell)
 * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorship-generated-404-errors/#post-18985227)
 * Glad to hear that helped clarify things, Dan! Thanks for following up and letting
   us know

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