Force WordPress theme CSS changes immediately
Theme authors: if you’ve been tweaking a WordPress site’s CSS file, the changes you’ve made usually don’t immediately show up for the blog visitors without a forced refresh. The reason: web browsers usually keep cached copies of site files. Mark Jaquith has a neat fix that allows you to grab the latest version of the CSS file and override the cached one automatically.
Just use this line of code in your header.php file:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/style.css?v=<?php echo filemtime(TEMPLATEPATH . '/style.css'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />This automatically updates the
?v=part every time you modify the file. Boom. Now everyone instantly sees your changes.
This should also work for other files like your Javascript files.
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links for 2009-05-05 en newdisco Said,
May 6, 2009 @ 10:14 am
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Edward Palomo Said,
June 17, 2009 @ 9:41 pm
This is what I’m looking for… since many of my blog’s visitors don’t know the word cache…LOL
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