Blocks and themes can only be edited once, ever. Urgent critical issue, please help
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So this started maybe a month ago, I'm not sure, it was happening for a while probably before I realized it was happening. So for starters, blocks can only be edited once.
You create them, write some stuff, save, and all seems good. You decide to change something, edit it, hit save, and it immediately reverts to what it was before you edited it. Then if you go to edit it again, it still doesn't have your edits, but no matter what you do, when you hit cancel it saves your second edits. This process cannot repeat. Now it's stuck in an infinite loop where if you open it and hit save you get version 1, and if you hit cancel you get version 2. No matter what you do or add, even if you edit the source on the text block, it doesn't matter. We only have versions 1 and 2.
I ignored this for a few weeks by copying the contents of a block, creating a new block, and pasting it in there to do edits. If I needed to edit again I would copy the contents and paste them in another new block, then delete the old one, and so on.
This sucked, but was possible to ignore. But today I had a realization that forces me to face the problem. This happens to theme editing too. I wanted to make a section of my site have different background colors, text colors, etc. and when I went to do it it worked, then I went to tweak some more to get it right and we get stuck in the version 1 and version 2 problem stated above. I can reset the customization's to the theme, but even then, if I go to edit them after this at all it still can only save as those version 1 and version 2 customization's from the very first two times I edited the theme.
I'm assuming this problem is happening for all sorts of other things in edit mode that I haven't had to interact with yet. Does anyone have any possible idea where this is coming from or how this is happening? I have absolutely no idea where to even start looking. I've tried clearing the cache multiple times and it does absolutely nothing. I really hope someone can help because it's the biggest roadblock I've ever faced for developing my website.
You create them, write some stuff, save, and all seems good. You decide to change something, edit it, hit save, and it immediately reverts to what it was before you edited it. Then if you go to edit it again, it still doesn't have your edits, but no matter what you do, when you hit cancel it saves your second edits. This process cannot repeat. Now it's stuck in an infinite loop where if you open it and hit save you get version 1, and if you hit cancel you get version 2. No matter what you do or add, even if you edit the source on the text block, it doesn't matter. We only have versions 1 and 2.
I ignored this for a few weeks by copying the contents of a block, creating a new block, and pasting it in there to do edits. If I needed to edit again I would copy the contents and paste them in another new block, then delete the old one, and so on.
This sucked, but was possible to ignore. But today I had a realization that forces me to face the problem. This happens to theme editing too. I wanted to make a section of my site have different background colors, text colors, etc. and when I went to do it it worked, then I went to tweak some more to get it right and we get stuck in the version 1 and version 2 problem stated above. I can reset the customization's to the theme, but even then, if I go to edit them after this at all it still can only save as those version 1 and version 2 customization's from the very first two times I edited the theme.
I'm assuming this problem is happening for all sorts of other things in edit mode that I haven't had to interact with yet. Does anyone have any possible idea where this is coming from or how this is happening? I have absolutely no idea where to even start looking. I've tried clearing the cache multiple times and it does absolutely nothing. I really hope someone can help because it's the biggest roadblock I've ever faced for developing my website.
Okay so I worked with my host provider and got rid of caching and it fixed the issue sort of. Now I can edit blocks correctly; however, themes aren't right and I suspect other things of a similar nature aren't right as well. I edited the theme and got some colors changed but then when I go to the live page it shows colors from some cached version. If I refresh the page then it gives me the correct colors; but, if I navigate back to the page again from a link or URL then it has the wrong colors again until I refresh the page.
I tried clearing the concrete5 cache and it doesn't help. Now I'm wondering if I should start a new thread for this new problem.
Also I can't for the life of me get the text color to change. No matter what I do it's just a greyish color.
I tried clearing the concrete5 cache and it doesn't help. Now I'm wondering if I should start a new thread for this new problem.
Also I can't for the life of me get the text color to change. No matter what I do it's just a greyish color.
This did it. I contacted support for my host provider and had them help me edit htaccess to turn off apache server caching and my problem is solved. As for the theme issues, most of them resolved after 30 minutes of migration after this change, but text color still cannot be edited in the customizations, I had to do custom CSS which I had to figure out on my own was as simple as p { color#fffff;} or something like that, idr off hand.
Thanks!
Thanks!
If your on a Litespeed server, this has a built-in cache program that has no On/Off switch but it can be disabled in your htaccess file by appending a line of code to your existing pretty urls code like this...