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Jared Codling
Jared Codling
810 Points
Posted by Jared Codling
Jared Codling
810 Points

How do I turn off "?ver=" on my CSS so it stops caching in WordPress - what purpose does it serve?

I'm having issues with caching; my style.css inside my child theme isn't updating on the site, because it says ?ver=2.2.2 on the end of it. I'm using Genesis, but have had this issue with other sites using other themes.

1 Answer

Jared Codling
Jared Codling
810 Points
Jared Codling
Jared Codling
810 Points

I used the following in my functions.php and it worked:

// Remove WP Version From Styles    
add_filter( 'style_loader_src', 'sdt_remove_ver_css_js', 9999 );
// Remove WP Version From Scripts
add_filter( 'script_loader_src', 'sdt_remove_ver_css_js', 9999 );

// Function to remove version numbers
function sdt_remove_ver_css_js( $src ) {
    if ( strpos( $src, 'ver=' ) )
        $src = remove_query_arg( 'ver', $src );
    return $src;
}