Hi, 

This is a repeating issue. 

Whenever we change the definition of the table display, we have to clean all the caches (W3TC and browser) in order to see the changes. I can understand that at development time this can happen, but this issue happens also when not developing. 

We are testing this from several browsers at different times. Almost whenever we get to test this table after sometime that we did not touch it, it goes back to the basic display, with no formatting and no functionality. After manually cleaning the caches it appears OK again. 

For the development phase I can accept that, although other plugins actually do not suffer from such issues (even if I am doing CSS updates!), but for the production real live website this is not acceptable. 

How this can be solved? We can tell our customers to clean their caches. We are not in the 90s anymore...

Thanks,

Yoram

Hi Milan,

It happens practically whenever we do something with the table. Any modification can cause these problems. I've been working with this table in two sites (both are my sites, an old one and a new one). I've been using Chrome or FireFox on multiple computers. The problem persist. After modification of anything in the table back end, in most case (not always though), there is need to clean the W3TC cache and the browser cache to see the update. In many cases, if we don't clean both caches, then we either get to see a very basic table (with no filter functionality) or it does not appear at all!!! 

It is not a specific case. It is all the time, in both sites. 

Hi Milan, 

Of course I can, but I must say that this is not the reaction I would expect from you. W3TC is one of the most commonly used cache plugins and many plugins are working with it. You should be able to test it yourself and learn how to work with this plugin. 

Turning it off will probably solve the problem, but this is not a solution. 

Yoram

Dear Milan, 

The issue is driving me crazy. I don't see how you don't see that in your work. I've been implementing this plugin in 2 different sites (the old and new one of our company), and this problem is the same. 

NOTE - it seems that the CSS is loaded in delay. I've noticed that it shows the raw data first and only after a second or so, IF THE CACHE IS CLEAN, the formatting appears as well. If the cache is not clear, then it looks like the CSS is not activated and the formatting remains raw.

We still see that all caches must be cleared to see the table properly and use its (great) functionality. It does not make sense. By the way - I also tried to exclude the page with the table from the W3TC cache, but it didn't help. The browser cache must be cleared as well, EACH TIME!!!

Thanks, 

Yoram

Hi Milan, 

I checked the code and it looks like that:

    public static function enqueueBootstrapJS() {
        global $wp_scripts;
        $bootstrapEnqueued = false;
        if ($wp_scripts !== null) {
            foreach ($wp_scripts->registered as $script) {
                if ((stristr($script->src, 'bootstrap.min.js') !== false ||
                        stristr($script->src, 'bootstrap.js') != false) &&
                    wp_script_is($script->handle, 'enqueued')
                ) {
                    $bootstrapEnqueued = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
       
            wp_enqueue_script('wdt-bootstrap', WDT_JS_PATH . 'bootstrap/bootstrap.min.js', array('jquery'), false, true);
        
    }

There was no

if (!$bootstrapEnqueued) {

One more thing - as the update of this plugin is done by deleting all files of the previous version and copying the new files, how do you expect us to monitor such critical changes?

Ok, I understand. These are basically two problems: 

1. The bootstrap conflict that occurs with upgrade version from you. 

2. The caching problem, which is still a problem, if you don't clear the browser cache!!!! 

 Check for yourself - it is still not working!!!  https://enspire.science/about-us/track-record/ 

Hi Milan, 

I checked this again, this time from Firefox, and the problem is still there. I had to clean the Firefox cache in order for this to go away. 

I suggest that you will try several times (not once or twice) to change things in the table and I believe that you will see the problem yourself.  

Yoram
 

Hi Milan, 

Just to inform you that even after removing the page from all caches, the problem persist! Sometimes it looks just fine and beautiful, and sometimes it looks really bad and without the filtering functionality. Something is not loaded as it should load. 

In parallel, I opened yesterday another ticket about a different bug. You can check it as well. 

Currently we have implemented two tables in two pages (https://enspire.science/about-us/track-record/  and https://enspire.science/grants/erc-consulting/erc-peer-review-panels/). None of these pages is cached anymore, but both are not working properly. 

I have also contacted the developers of the theme to see if they can help. I will update. 

Best,

Yoram

Hi Milan, 

I have the W3TC and the SG Optimizer, but both of them are not active on these pages. We have excluded these pages from the cache. 

The problem persists. You can check yourself. 

Yoram

Hi Milan, 

Yes, I did and it looks much much better. 

Thanks.

Yoram