Summary
On Settings → WP Super Cache → Advanced, the "Directly Cached Files" table has a column headed Delete cached file, but the cell is empty for any page whose static file has not been generated yet.
partials/lockdown.php:49-52:
$generated = '';
if ( is_file( ABSPATH . $page . '/index.html' ) )
$generated = '<input class="button-secondary" type="Submit" name="deletepage" value="' . $page . '">';
$out .= "<tr><td><input type='text' $readonly name='direct_pages[]' size='30' value='$page' /></td><td>$generated</td></tr>";The logic is defensible — there is no file to delete, so there is no button. The problem is that nothing says so. You add a direct page, the row appears immediately, and the column that is supposed to act on it is blank with no explanation.
Steps
- Advanced tab → "Directly Cached Files" → add a direct page, e.g.
/about/.
- The row appears with an empty cell under "Delete cached file".
- Visit
/about/ as an anonymous user so the static file is generated.
- Reload the settings page — the button is now there.
Between steps 2 and 3 the UI reads as broken rather than as "nothing to do yet".
Suggested fix
Render something in the empty cell — an em dash, or text along the lines of "Not generated yet". The help text below the table already explains the mechanism ("The cached file will be generated the next time an anonymous user visits that page"), so the cell only needs to point at it rather than repeat it.
Not this issue
Removing the entry from the list is a separate gap — see the companion issue. "Delete cached file" deletes the generated HTML and leaves the entry in place, which is the correct scope for that button but is easy to mistake for a remove control.
Suggested labels: bug, ready-for-agent.
Summary
On Settings → WP Super Cache → Advanced, the "Directly Cached Files" table has a column headed Delete cached file, but the cell is empty for any page whose static file has not been generated yet.
partials/lockdown.php:49-52:The logic is defensible — there is no file to delete, so there is no button. The problem is that nothing says so. You add a direct page, the row appears immediately, and the column that is supposed to act on it is blank with no explanation.
Steps
/about/./about/as an anonymous user so the static file is generated.Between steps 2 and 3 the UI reads as broken rather than as "nothing to do yet".
Suggested fix
Render something in the empty cell — an em dash, or text along the lines of "Not generated yet". The help text below the table already explains the mechanism ("The cached file will be generated the next time an anonymous user visits that page"), so the cell only needs to point at it rather than repeat it.
Not this issue
Removing the entry from the list is a separate gap — see the companion issue. "Delete cached file" deletes the generated HTML and leaves the entry in place, which is the correct scope for that button but is easy to mistake for a remove control.
Suggested labels:
bug,ready-for-agent.