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Caching & CDN: Deployed, but Nothing Changed
You deployed, you cleared the cache, and the public still sees the old version, or worse, a broken one. This cluster dissects the stacked cache layers that hide each other: WP Rocket, Cloudflare, edge caches, down to a stale .min.js silently enqueued from dist. Required reading before you blame your own code.
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Deployed + Cleared WP Rocket but the Public Still Sees the Old Version? Cloudflare Is Caching HTML for a Year
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The Bypass Rule Existed and the Header Still Said cf-cache-status: HIT. Cloudflare Cache Rules Are Last-Match-Wins
August 29, 2026 -
`revalidateTag` Fires But the Listing Page Stays Stale: Prerendered Pages Need Their Own `revalidatePath`
August 29, 2026 -
Every Exported Email Reads `[email protected]` and One Line on the Page Stops at `<`? That's Edge Email Obfuscation
August 25, 2026 -
Login Returns `302` to /account/ but the Browser Stays Logged Out: Cloudflare Flexible SSL Makes `is_ssl()` False at the Origin
August 15, 2026 -
WXR Import Fails With `PCDATA invalid Char value 18` and `Sequence ']]>' not allowed`? Sanitize the Bytes First
August 3, 2026 -
Purge Workflow Exits 1 with "Zone ID not found": Cloudflare Zones Register Against the Apex, Not the Subdomain
August 1, 2026 -
`plan_limit_reached` 402 From Sanity Turned Every Page Into a Cloudflare 522 One Day After Launch
July 31, 2026 -
Swapped an Image and Video but the Client Still Sees the Old One? `Cache-Control: max-age` Keeps Same-Name Files Cached
July 30, 2026 -
Uploaded Every Patched File but the Site Is Still Broken? LSCache Is Serving Stale HTML (`X-LiteSpeed-Cache: hit`)
July 23, 2026 -
Purged Every Cache but the Browser Still Loads Old CSS? The `?ver=` Query You Forgot to Bump
July 23, 2026 -
Editing a Theme's Source JS Changes Nothing in the Browser? The Enqueue Silently Loads a Stale `.min.js` From `dist`
July 7, 2026 -
wp-admin Acting Haunted (Expired Nonce, AJAX Not JSON, Sidebar Vanishing)? That's CDN/Edge Cache, Not a Theme Bug
July 1, 2026 -
Checking a WordPress Site With `curl` Returns Empty Placeholders? WP Rocket Strips Content for Unknown UAs
June 30, 2026 -
“Works on My Machine”, Because You Checked as Admin: The Public Render Differs From the Logged-in One
June 26, 2026 -
WP Rocket 'Delay JavaScript Execution' Breaks Your Header Dropdown, Correct Code That Never Runs
June 19, 2026 -
Mobile Menu & Dropdowns Break After Enabling WP Rocket? The RUCSS Trap
June 18, 2026