- Hey y'all, I'm Kori Ashton from askkori.com
sponsored by pressable.com.
And this is a video on a YouTube channel
dedicated to all things WordPress.
And today's tip is gonna be,
just a quick resource for you,
to help you better understand what changes
are actually happening on your website.
If you've been working really hard,
trying to get something to totally change
in your website, and every time you go look
at the front side of your website,
it's not there, that change isn't made,
but in the dashboard or in the page and the post,
you've been making that change
and clicking update or publish.
And you go to the back to the front side of your website
and you keep finding, where'd it go?
It's not here, I can't figure it out.
One of the issues might be your cache
or the memory inside the browser
that you're viewing it on.
So quick tip right now could be to the pause this video
and go try to look at that page or that post
on a different device.
Or open up a different browser right now
and try it on a different browser,
and see if you can find that link or that image
or whatever it is that you're trying to change
inside of that new browser.
If that's not the case, I've got another free resource
for you right now, let's go take a look.
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So again if you're working on your website
and let's say that you've logged in,
you're in your dashboard and you've come over here
and made changes, you've added a picture or something
and it's just not being visible for you
every time you go back and look at the front side
of the website, or the side that your visitors see.
That can be very frustrating.
So your cache could be the issue.
One quick tip is, try logging out of your WordPress website.
Get completely out of it, then go view
and see if that change is there.
If it's still not there you've got one more opportunity.
Take the link of the website you're trying to view,
copy that link on to your clipboard, okay?
So whatever your link is, whatever page
or post you're trying to view,
copy it on to your clipboard
and come over to a tool called kproxy.com.
Don't worry about that, I'll put the link below.
There's no affiliate marketing on this,
it is a free resource.
Paste in the URL, even a page if you're trying
to look at a page or a post, a specific page or a post.
Paste it in there and click surf.
What this is gonna do is it's gonna go grab
the most recent cached version of that page.
Meaning, the most fresh version possible
on the servers, it's going to grab
and you should be able to see then your change
implemented on this page immediately right here.
And you can do that as well inside of a mobile device.
If you're seeing that, that that okay that worked,
you're able to see it here.
One of the things you might wanna do
is cache the memory on your website server.
If you have a hosting provider like pressable.com,
they have this opportunity inside
of your dashboard here on purge cache.
You can just click that button
and it will purge the cache on this one website
that you're running on their server.
So it's really important to communicate
with your hosting company,
see if that's the solution for you.
It very easily could be the quick fix
that helps you stop pulling out your hair
in total frustration knowing
that you've already clicked save, or update,
or whatever you've been working on
and you just don't see it.
This is also something to realize
that if you've sent changes to a client
and the client keeps telling you,
I just don't see it, it looks the same to me,
I don't understand.
You can tell them, hold one moment,
let me go purge the cache on your website
which is kind of wipe that memory
from the browser for a minute.
And allow you to see the most recent version,
please click refresh or a hard refresh
so that you see the most recent version
of your website.
Hey you guys, I hope this helps,
I know it was a quick WordPress Wednesday,
but sometimes quick fixes like this save the day.
Have a great one, be sure to subscribe
to my channel 'cause every Wednesday,
I'm creating a video just like this
to help you improve your online marketing
inside the world of WordPress.
See you next time, bye y'all.
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