Website edits not showing up after publishing
Live webpages can appear completely blank or display broken layouts even after you click publish and see the correct design in preview mode. Clearing standard browser, private window, and plugin caches often fails to fix this, making it look as though your edits never actually went live.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1adding a query string to the URL to bypass the cache
- 2checking the layout in a private browsing window
- 3purging the server or CDN page cache in addition to local and plugin caches
- 4Delete any active site or host cache
- 5Purge the browser cache
- 6Regenerate the website builder's CSS
- 7Check if the published page URL matches the homepage URL
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“i was making design/css changes, mostly on static pages. the layout kept looking broken.”source ↗
“i cleared the normal caches: browser, private window, wp/plugin cache. still broken.”source ↗
“I have already built the webpage using Elementor, saved it, and clicked on "Publish". However, when I opened the webpage using Google, I found it was still blank, exactly the same as when I first created the page.”source ↗
“It seems as if my editing didn't actually get published.”source ↗
“But when I clicked on "Edit" and "Preview", it showed the already-built website.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
- 14Why won't my store data update through the API?
- 8Why are post preview images blurry and enlarged on WordPress?
- 2How do clients edit static websites without knowing code?
- 2Why won't my Elementor homepage scroll?
- 2Why does DNS stop working across the domain after an update?
- 2Website crashed after updating PHP version