Title: Hard refreshing a page when developing
Last modified: October 21, 2025

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# Hard refreshing a page when developing

 *  Resolved [Paal Joachim Romdahl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paaljoachim/)
 * (@paaljoachim)
 * [6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-refreshing-a-page-when-developing/)
 * Hey
 * I create tutorials at [https://easywebdesigntutorials.com/](https://easywebdesigntutorials.com/)
   
   This means I do a lot of testing, working with AI in relation to various code.
   I need to make sure that when I adjust code that I see the latest code and not
   a cached version. I am using Auto Optimize today but it is having some difficulties
   with this so I am thinking about using your plugin.

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 *  Plugin Author [Raul P.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alignak/)
 * (@alignak)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-refreshing-a-page-when-developing/#post-18705861)
 * Hi,
   If you are doing development, involving editing css or js files, you should
   never use any plugin that minifies files, and you should never be behind a cdn
   like cloudflare for example, without having some rule to bypass cache.Furthermore,
   all your css and js files need a query param, that changes after each change.
   I like to use filemtime on php to match the version to last modified date of 
   the file itself for example.You should not just use time() or similar, because
   later your url will keep changing and not be cached.None of these things are 
   related to any plugin, so for development, just go ahead and disable all cache
   and minification for all layers (plugins, server side, cdn, etc) and only enable
   those things on production.

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 * Last activity: [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-refreshing-a-page-when-developing/#post-18705861)
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