I had w3-total-cache installed and recently removed it because it was slowing down the site for some weird reason.
However, the changes I make to certain template files are not updated, I feel that some template files are cached in the database..
I get the following error on site when i remove or rename sidebar.php:
Notice: Theme without sidebar.php is deprecated since version 3.0 with no alternative available. Please include a sidebar.php template in your theme. in /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3136
However; the sidebar still shows right under that. It's also not just the sidebar that is cached, it's more template files like content-standard.php.
I've done a grep search of some contents that were in the template files, however there are no copies so I'm assuming something is cached in the db..
tldr: My template changes are not taking effect, I believe it's from this caching plugin, which I have disabled and deleted. Is there a way to debug/complete wipe the plugin or solve this issue?