Some customers accessing older version of website
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Some of my customers (about 1 in 6) are accessing an older version of my website and completing checkout on items I no longer stock. When this happens, there is no order listed in WordPress Admin and no order confirmations are sent to either myself or the buyer. If the buyer chooses PayPal then I do receive the paypal order (only) but the prefix in front of the order number is related to the old site, also the order number is a repeat of an order a few weeks back. I have contacted some of these customers and got them to try different devices or browsers….some were able to connect to my updated site but most were not! How is this possible? I have tried changing theme and deactivating most Plugins but no luck. I have had the website for several years and this issue started about 1 month ago. The old website has green title/menu bar while the updated site is Black and white.
Is there a test I can get one of my customers to do to see where the website is coming from?
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Generated at: 2025-08-23 20:04:27 +10:00Have you made any recent changes to the website hosting? Has the domain been moved? If so, it is possible that the affected parties are still accessing outdated domain data and are therefore being directed to the old hosting.
Furthermore, do you have a development system for the shop? If so, are the orders perhaps coming through that? If it can be found via search engines, this could well be the case.
Hi @chrissk,
I had a look and the issue is that your domain is serving two different versions of your website:
- When someone goes to
mmsdetox.com.au(without the “www”), they reach your updated black-and-white site. - But when they go to
www.mmsdetox.com.au, they see the older green-bar site.
Right now, visitors are being redirected to the “www” version, which is why many of your customers are ending up on the old site and orders aren’t showing up in your WordPress dashboard.
A simple way to think of it is like having two doors to your shop — one door takes people into the new shop, the other door still opens to the old one. You can learn more about www vs non-www here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Guides/Choosing_between_www_and_non-www_URLs
The fix is to have your hosting provider:
- Make sure both the www and non-www addresses point to the same website (the new one the one without www).
- Set up a redirect so everyone is always sent to the updated site.
Once this is done, all your customers will see the correct version and checkout will work properly.
P.S: I got the old site as well, I confirmed that the non-www version shows the updated site, some tools like Google page speed insights uses the non-www version (https://mmsdetox.com.au), which is showing the updated black-and-white design-
This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by
Neha Sharma.
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This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by
Neha Sharma.
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This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by
Neha Sharma.
This is a classic caching issue. Your customers are seeing a saved, older version of your site.
Tell them to hard refresh:
- On computer:
Ctrl + Shift + R(Windows) orCmd + Shift + R(Mac). - On phone: They’ll need to clear their browser’s cache and cookies in settings.
You should also check and clear your hosting’s server cache and any CDN (like Cloudflare) you might be using. This will likely solve it for good.
The website was upgraded from a standard hosting plan to a business hosting plan around the same time I started having problems, so it looks like one is the www version and the other is the non-www version. I will contact my hosting company to fix this and clear all the caches etc.
Thank you all.
Issue resolved, Thank you.
- When someone goes to
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