I’m running into several Grav-related issues that are starting to disrupt development on my Texas Roadhouse menu website, and I’m hoping someone here might recognize these symptoms. The site uses Grav 1.7 with a custom theme, modular pages for menu categories, and a fairly large amount of structured FrontMatter data for each menu item. Everything worked smoothly for months, but recently I’ve noticed that Twig template changes are not consistently appearing even after clearing cache from the admin panel and via CLI. Sometimes the changes load instantly, but other times Grav keeps serving stale fragments until I manually delete the /cache and /twig folders. I’m unsure whether this is related to OPcache, Grav’s internal cache, or something misconfigured in my system.yaml.
Another problem involves page collections and filtering. For my Texas Roadhouse menu categories, I use collections that filter menu items by taxonomy (like “steaks,” “sides,” “drinks,” etc.). Lately, the filtering has become unreliable. Some items appear in the wrong categories, and occasionally entire sections load empty even though the FrontMatter is correct. When I dump the collection in Twig, the data appears inconsistent between refreshes. I’m not sure if this is due to caching, an indexing issue, or a conflict between taxonomy definitions and modular page structures.
I’ve also been struggling with image processing. Grav’s built-in media pipeline is usually great, but my menu images which are fairly large—sometimes fail to generate resized versions. Instead, the page displays the original full-size image or, worse, a broken placeholder. Looking at the logs, I occasionally see errors related to ImageMagick or GD depending on which processor is active. The issue only started recently, so I’m not sure if a plugin update caused it or if my server configuration changed without me noticing. For a food-focused site, unreliable image resizing is a big problem.
Another odd issue I’ve noticed is that markdown content inside modular pages doesn’t always update properly. When editing descriptions for menu items or adjusting nutritional information, the updates sometimes don’t show on the front end until I resave the parent modular page. This makes me think something in the modular page hierarchy or caching layer is not refreshing child modules properly. I’ve checked all YAML files and blueprint structures, and nothing appears malformed.
I’m also experiencing plugin conflicts specifically with the Pagination and TaxonomyList plugins. When both are enabled, my menu category pages occasionally throw errors like “call to member function… on null” or fail to render pagination controls entirely. Disabling either plugin makes the pages render correctly, but I need both for the layout I’m building. I’ve checked plugin versions, updated everything, and tested with default themes, but the behavior is inconsistent across page structures.
Overall, I’m trying to determine whether these issues stem from caching misconfigurations, taxonomy inconsistencies, plugin conflicts, or something deeper in Grav’s modular architecture. I’ve already cleared caches, disabled OPcache temporarily, rebuilt the site from a fresh install, and even tested on a staging server with the same results. If anyone has dealt with unreliable Twig caching, inconsistent taxonomy filtering, or image-processing failures, I’d really appreciate some guidance. The Texas Roadhouse menu website depends on these dynamic features, and I’m trying to get Grav back to its usual stable and predictable state. Sorry for long post!