We are building our website on Webflow and hosting on Siteground. Siteground is unable to force hard cache refresh. Webflow does not have a feature that will flush cache.
Our primary issue is that when minor text edits are made and then published, our website does not show the edits even after web browser history is cleared and private tab is used.
Thanks for the fast direction!
How is this related to Webflow caching?
Based on review of Webflow documentation, Webflow does not have a cache flush. Is that correct?
What cache are you referring go? There is none that I’m aware of; most pages on most sites utilize the CMS for dynamic content integration and do not cache.
You haven’t shared links but I think you’re most likely confused about CMS item publishing. If you edit a CMS item it enters a Draft Changes state. To publish it, you publish the CMS item individually from the CMS screens- publishing the whole site ( top right ) publishes static content only, not individual CMS items.
EDIT: skimmed the thread too quickly. If you’re hosting on Siteground, Webflow is not involved in any aspect of hosting or caching your published site.
Please share s published URL that can be inspected.
A couple of things to clarify so we can help out better. When you say you’re hosting on SiteGround, are you exporting your Webflow site and then uploading the files manually to SiteGround? Or are you using Webflow’s hosting directly? If you’re hosting with SiteGround, Webflow’s publish button won’t affect what’s live on your domain. You’d need to re-export your site from Webflow and upload the updated files to SiteGround every time you make changes.
Also, how are you uploading the site to SiteGround? Through FTP, their File Manager, or another method? It’s important to confirm that the latest version is actually getting deployed.
Have you checked if the changes appear in the exported files before uploading them? For example, if you made a text change, can you open the exported HTML file locally and see that it’s there?
SiteGround may also have caching enabled on their side like dynamic cache or a CDN layer. Have you tried clearing any server-side cache through SiteGround’s control panel? If that’s still active, even updated files may not appear right away.
Finally, if you’re using a CDN like Cloudflare, that could also be caching your old content.
Let us know how you’re exporting and uploading the site and what caching options are enabled in SiteGround. That’ll help narrow it down.