Title: CSS Updating
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# CSS Updating

 *  [richardhall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardhall/)
 * (@richardhall)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/)
 * I’m not sure if this is the right section to post this – apologies if I’m wrong!
   
   I’ve been playing with CSS on my blog ([http://theconnexion.net/wp](http://theconnexion.net/wp))
   Although content updates straight away when I post new stuff, changes I make 
   to the style sheet seem not to come into force for quite a while. I know that
   they’ve happened, they just don’t show up! I’ve tried getting to my site through
   a different ISP and, sure enough, the new CSS is operating. This leads me to 
   suspect that somehow my ISP is cacheing the style sheet. Does anyone know how
   I can overcome this?

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48187)
 * It is a temporary effect, and maybe it is your browser that is caching your page.
   Even otherwise a shift+ctrl+F5(or refresh) on windows should do a network refresh
   of the cache. That should see you home.
 *  Thread Starter [richardhall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardhall/)
 * (@richardhall)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48205)
 * Thanks – I’ll see if I can find a similar key combination for Mac OSX.
 *  [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48323)
 * For Safari: command+option+E
    That will clear it’s cache.
 *  [MaxT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxt/)
 * (@maxt)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48332)
 * @ mark
    [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Thu%2C+19+Nov+1981+08%3A52%3A00+GMT&btnG=Google+Search](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Thu%2C+19+Nov+1981+08%3A52%3A00+GMT&btnG=Google+Search)
   Try look at that link, maybe you will understand why… Frankly I have no idea,
   but everyone uses it. “Excessive server load”? With software like WP and knowing
   that we are talking about a blog, not some high traffic site, it wont happend…
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48341)
 * u certainly have not heard abt dotcanada…
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48345)
 * Yes, apparently an install of WordPress caused excessive server load at dotcanada
   hosting. Dreamhost also had a problem but these 2 incidents are isolated and 
   cannot be replicated.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48382)
 * my intuition was that, some hosts are weird enough to get nasty when nothing 
   much has happened 🙂
 *  1539
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-48788)
 * Perhaps I used the wrong word. I should’ve said “unnecessary”.
 *  [guyincognito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guyincognito/)
 * (@guyincognito)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-updating/#post-49163)
 * I had a similar problem with updating the style sheet and found an inelegant 
   solution. What happened was I could upload changes to php/html files into the
   theme folder and see the changes straight away, except for the style sheet, it
   would not update with a new upload. I logged into word press and checked it through
   the theme editor and the updates where there but when I went to view the site
   in my browser (clearing cache all the time) and viewed the style sheet, no updates.
   What I ended up doing was renaming the stylesheet and going into the header file
   and hard coding the style sheet link rather than use the php method. The path
   was exactly the same as what would get written out by php when you view the page
   source in the browser except with the new file name at the end. I then commented
   out the php style sheet link, uploaded it with the renamed style sheet and it
   worked a treat. Now everytime I upload a modified style sheet it appears instantly.
   I know this is not a great solution if you want to change themes regularly but
   it worked for me. I did notice that the image folder I was using in my css which
   was at the root level now seemed instead to go to the images folder in the theme
   folder, I can’t confirm this to be exactly the case but watch out for it. Hope
   this is of some help.

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