Refresh Issue

I have a Wordpress install that will not refresh when I make changes to its design for 10, 15+ minutes, in spite of emptied caches and hard refreshes. Any possible issues with Dreamhost or my database I should explore?

Thanks in advance -

Are you running the WP-Cache plugin? If so, then you can go to Plugins on the Admin screen and set it to Inactive. Or go to Settings, then WP-Cache and Delete the Cache (button at the bottom).

-Scott

Yeah, that's the first thing I did - disable WP-cache. So it's behaving this way on its own, pointing to an issue with either hosting or database (I would guess).

Sometimes it's the ISP that's caching the page for you. You *could* try to let your domain respond with and without "www" to try to fool the caching. Or even set up a Mirrored Domain, so you have a test.mydomain.com site that'll serve the www.mydomain.com blog. Maybe that'll test this theory.

-Scott

Good tips . . . no luck so far, though.

Now Google is having problems seeing newly-added Analytics code in my wordpress code, which further leads me to believe it's a hosting / db problem. Any other suggestions? :)

It would help us help you if you shared the domain so we could compare what we are seeing (ISPs, browsers, etc.) with what you are seeing.

--rlparker

This may sound silly, but are you 100% sure you're editing the right theme?

You mentioned design, so I'm assuming that's mainly what you're doing, right? I didn't know if you were using the theme editor, or manually changing things some other way.

Actually, if switching themes works, that would seem to indicate the problem... or a theme switch wouldn't stick either. If you can see a theme swap, you should be able to see anything else that changes.

Maybe put a comment in the header, then go through themes, refreshing each one, then checking the source for the comment.

I would think the db could be eliminated as a problem by simply making a new post/page and see if it shows up.

Also, is this a fresh installation, or a fresh problem on an old installation? If it's a new installation, you didn't go the "easy" route, did you? I'd imagine you couldn't edit those templates, but I've never done the easy one, so I don't know if it gives you an option to do it that doesn't "stick" -- or if the option simply isn't there. I'm sure someone else could clear that up.

Good thoughts -
Yes, 100% sure I'm editing the right theme - changes to the template design do show up, they just take 10, 15+ minutes to show up. Oddly, new posts show up immediately.

Fresh install / did not go "easy" route. It's a Revolution Theme template - www.junglecrawler.com (pardon the ugliness, still messing with the design)