Title: Can&#039;t flush cache
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Can't flush cache

 *  [koo145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koo145/)
 * (@koo145)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/)
 * Hi. I’m having trouble with this webpage that belongs to a client. I’m the developer.
 * [http://www.decadencenyc.com/party-registration/](http://www.decadencenyc.com/party-registration/)
 * The current page uses WP Forms but the old one uses Gravity Forms. Sometimes 
   the page with WP Forms shows and other times the page with Gravity Forms shows.
 * I tried everything from flushing the cache through a plugin, disabling any caching
   plugins, etc. But I can’t seem to figure out what’s going on.
 * What’s also odd is that sometimes when I use private browser, the form doesn’t
   show at all.

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 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596247)
 * I strongly suspect you are right about this being a Caching problem, but you 
   seem to have forgotten about Web Browser caching, which this seems to be.
 * By the way, I see the form just fine on the page you mention, but it seems to
   be Gravity Forms, though I cannot be sure — I just see references to Gravity 
   Forms in the HTML.
 *  Thread Starter [koo145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koo145/)
 * (@koo145)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596248)
 * I cleared the cache for my browsers and it’s still happening though. It’s also
   happening to computers that have never accessed the site
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596255)
 * About the only thing left that I can think of is to deactivate all plugins except
   WP Forms, and change to the default Twenty Sixteen theme, and see if the problem
   still exists.
 * If site outage is an issue, you should clone the current site to someplace else
   as a test site using Duplicator or the Moving WordPress documentation in the 
   Codex. And then deactivate other plugins and use the default Twenty Sixteen theme.
 * Anyway, the standard concept is to start out with “next to nothing” and gradually
   work your way up to the problem by adding one change (plugin or theme) at a time.
 * Also be sure that WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG are set to TRUE in wp-config.php 
   during your testing. Be aware that messages may be generated that could corrupt
   the appearance of your site when you do this.
 * I should also mention that there are some pretty unusual situations that can 
   cause what you are seeing, all to do with Redundancy somewhere in the web hosting
   setup. As in two web servers sharing the job of serving your domain, with one
   working from an out of date copy of the database. As I say, very unlikely.
 *  Thread Starter [koo145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koo145/)
 * (@koo145)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596257)
 * If the problem still exists with the 2016 theme and wpforms, does that mean that
   it’s a server-side caching issue?
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596275)
 * If so, I’ve never heard of that before. WordPress does not do any (Page) Caching
   of its own, and I’m not aware of any web server software that does either. Linux
   will store files in memory but keeps them up to date.
 *  Thread Starter [koo145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koo145/)
 * (@koo145)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596277)
 * Hm ok. I’m going to do what you suggested before your last post but what do you
   think about exporting the form’s settings then deactivating the plugin, delete
   it, clean the database for any leftover files and then install the plugin again
   and import the forms? Would this be something that could work?
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596279)
 * Looking at your site right now, it looks the same as it did last time. Which 
   is to say that there are references to Gravity Forms in the HTML.
 * At the risk to trying your patience, could you double check that the Gravity 
   Forms plugin is deactivated?
 * I’m assuming that this is a Single Site install of WordPress, not Multi-site (“
   Network”).
 *  Thread Starter [koo145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koo145/)
 * (@koo145)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596281)
 * I actually just disabled WP Forms.
 * So I had a form with Gravity Forms and my client updated some elements of the
   form some time ago (like deleting the captcha). However, we started seeing the
   page with the old form (without the captcha) sometimes and the new form other
   times. So thinking it was a plugin issue, I tried to create the same form using
   WP Forms but I was still seeing the old page with Gravity Forms. Now I’ve come
   full circle and were back to seeing two versions of the same Gravity Form.
 * To answer your question, yes this is a single site install.
 * I also just disabled the Gravity Forms plugins as well. When I go to the page:
 * [http://www.decadencenyc.com/party-registration/](http://www.decadencenyc.com/party-registration/)
 * I see the shortcode being displayed, which should be, since the plugin is disabled.
   But when I open up an incognito window and go to the same page, I see the form
   being shown (the old form with the captcha).
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596283)
 * Right now, I am seeing the Gravity Forms.
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596284)
 * I just don’t have any more ideas.
 *  Thread Starter [koo145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koo145/)
 * (@koo145)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596285)
 * :/
 * Ok. Well thanks for your time. I really appreciate it 🙂
 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596288)
 * I have an idea. I was once on a webhost (many years ago on Network Solutions)
   where the site was served from multiple servers.. some kind of weird load balance
   thing. One of the server’s time was wrong which is how I caught it. Granted, 
   they did serve the same content. I just had forum posts getting messed up due
   to incorrect times.
 * Anyway, put an info.php file in the blog’s directory with
 *     ```
       <?php
       phpinfo();
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Then execute that over and over make sure things like the **System** and **Build
   Date** remain consistent. I was actually seeing different information here.
 * I loaded that page several times and always got what looked to be the Galaxy 
   Form stuff with a captcha.
 * Just throwing it out there.
 *  Thread Starter [koo145](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koo145/)
 * (@koo145)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596290)
 * Could you elaborate on the info.php file? I haven’t done that before.
 * Speaking of the server, so I asked for my client’s hosting credentials and I 
   found something that strikes me odd. I inherited this website by the way so I’m
   just figuring things out as well.
 * This is what I found: [https://s31.postimg.org/ajdn2pfcb/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_35_40_PM.png](https://s31.postimg.org/ajdn2pfcb/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_35_40_PM.png)
 * The user is subscribed to a WordPress hosting plan and a Cold Fusion plan as 
   well each with it’s own billing
 * Here are the details from the WordPress settings:
    [https://s32.postimg.org/jdrk44alh/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_02_PM.png](https://s32.postimg.org/jdrk44alh/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_02_PM.png)
   [https://s31.postimg.org/74qepb8ff/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_22_PM.png](https://s31.postimg.org/74qepb8ff/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_22_PM.png)
   [https://s31.postimg.org/yfgbb4t23/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_51_PM.png](https://s31.postimg.org/yfgbb4t23/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_51_PM.png)
 * And here are the details from the Cold Fusion settings:
    [https://s31.postimg.org/nrh5pv8ez/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_03_PM.png](https://s31.postimg.org/nrh5pv8ez/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_03_PM.png)
   [https://s32.postimg.org/pawg4dy9h/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_25_PM.png](https://s32.postimg.org/pawg4dy9h/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_25_PM.png)
   [https://s32.postimg.org/48a45sjgl/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_54_PM.png](https://s32.postimg.org/48a45sjgl/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_36_54_PM.png)
   [https://s32.postimg.org/fehfv68at/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_37_04_PM.png](https://s32.postimg.org/fehfv68at/Screen_Shot_2016_07_22_at_9_37_04_PM.png)
 * I know what Cold Fusion is but I have 0 experience in working with it. Can anyone
   shed some light on what I’m looking at? :/
 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-flush-cache-2/#post-7596306)
 * That phpinfo(); command just spits out a lot of information about the PHP configuration
   on the server. Info: [PHP: phpinfo – Manual](http://php.net/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php)
 * [phpinfo example images – Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=phpinfo+example+images&newwindow=1&biw=1283&bih=737&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj48bqviInOAhUCSyYKHX1FAcEQ_AUIBigB)

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