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Symptom :

• Have published an article in the blog (wordpress-powered blog) but unable to view the latest post in homepage

Cause :

1. The web browser is loading web content from its cache rather than downloading it from the internet
2. The hosting or internet service provider runs a caching service in order to provide faster web content transfer to its viewer, but the cache is not updated when you published the article.

Solution :

1. Try clearing the browser’s cache. In Firefox you can go to Tools->Clear Private Data. By clearing the cache, the browser will be forced to download the web content from the internet.
2. Try contact your hosting or internet service provider, and ask if your site can bypass the caching service, or update the web cache.

Workaround :

If you really need to view the homepage with the recent post (maybe for testing purposes), you can try adding a meaningless GET parameter in your web address. Example : if your site is “http://www.testsite.com” and unable to see the recent post, then try using “http://www.testsite.com/?x=1″

The parameter “?x=1″ is meaningless to wordpress, but when it is executed, the browser will return the un-cached page, since the cached page is  “http://www.testsite.com” and not “http://www.testsite.com/?x=1″

Note :

• if the parameter “?x=1″ doesn’t return latest page, try other parameter of your choosing (ex: “?d=1″, “?asd=123″)
• the implementation of the workaround written above may not be exclusive to wordpress.