Strange Wordpress Issue

Guys,

I'm having a bit of a complication right now that I didn't even know I was having.
I was on the phone with someone and asked them to take a look at an article I'd written on my website. The article shows up just fine for me, however, when the person I was speaking with, looked at my website, they were greeted with the default "Just another WordPress site" page, which was removed well over a year ago. So I checked my website in my browser and all seemed fine. I checked in a different browser and I was greeted with that old default Wordpress page. I checked on my phone, and again, I was greeted with that default Wordpress page. Admittedly, I started to freak out a bit, but then I realized that people are seeing / clicking my Adsense ads and buying Amazon affiliate products from my website, so this obviously can't be some universal issue that everyone who visits my website is facing.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?

I'm interested in learning about some possible solutions, as I don't know how many people are completely unable to see my website.

Thanks.


EDIT: Upon further inspection, it appears that it's just the homepage that's doing this. I can directly visit other URLs if I have said URLs to visit, but the homepage remains this default Wordpress page.

Have you tried to clone homepage and set new one as homepage..
May be some update caused it.. Or you can check by updating the permalinks..

Make sure to have a fullback up in case anything goes wrong.

insom said:

Have you tried to clone homepage and set new one as homepage

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I have not tried this. Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a shot and then report back. Thanks!

EDIT: @insom, I have cloned the homepage and set it as the default static page to use as the homepage, however, when I clear my cache and visit this page in a browser I'm not logged into, I'm still greeted with the default Wordpress page. This situation is quite frustrating.

ANOTHER EDIT: I've set the homepage to a different static page (not a cloned version of the homepage), and the issue remains. So at least I know it's not the homepage, itself. It's something else, but I don't know what.

Try adding define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ); in config file..

Note: Take backup

Did you ever use a reverse proxy with a long cache lifetime?

I once tried to build a static site by having cloudflare cache everything forever. It worked but then stale pages would get served forever.

Maybe your original WP page got cached on one of the front-end servers. When you're logged in, the cache is bypassed so that'd explain you seeing the fresh one.

Clear the proxy cache (and cloudflare if you use it) and try again.

bartosimpsonio said:

Did you ever use a reverse proxy with a long cache lifetime?

I once tried to build a static site by having cloudflare cache everything forever. It worked but then stale pages would get served forever.

Maybe your original WP page got cached on one of the front-end servers. When you're logged in, the cache is bypassed so that'd explain you seeing the fresh one.

Clear the proxy cache (and cloudflare if you use it) and try again.

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Bossman El Simpsonio, you are a freakin' genius! There was a mishap with the caching (though I don't use Cloudflare). Before I upgraded to WP Rocket, a long time ago, I was using W3 Total Cache to handle my cache. Though W3 had long since been disabled, when I right-clicked to view the page source (while in Incognito Mode), I noticed at the bottom that the cache was handled by W3 Total Cache. I activated W3, purged the cache, deactivated, and then deleted that bastard. Now everything is working as intended. Thanks, boss!

insom said:

Try adding define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ); in config file..

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This was a nice suggestion that I'm going to play around with when I have some downtime. It didn't solve this issue, but I'll look more into debugging to see which issues it can potentially resolve in the future. Thanks for the pro tip!

Thanks guys, for your help. I'm back in the game!

Toz said:

Bossman El Simpsonio, you are a freakin' genius! There was a mishap with the caching (though I don't use Cloudflare). Before I upgraded to WP Rocket, a long time ago, I was using W3 Total Cache to handle my cache. Though W3 had long since been disabled, when I right-clicked to view the page source (while in Incognito Mode), I noticed at the bottom that the cache was handled by W3 Total Cache. I activated W3, purged the cache, deactivated, and then deleted that bastard. Now everything is working as intended. Thanks, boss!


This was a nice suggestion that I'm going to play around with when I have some downtime. It didn't solve this issue, but I'll look more into debugging to see which issues it can potentially resolve in the future. Thanks for the pro tip!

Thanks guys, for your help. I'm back in the game!

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Caching is a treacherous bastard. I got bit by it many times in many different scenarios. Glad I could help.