Force Refresh

Descrição

Force Refresh gives you a fast, reliable way to request or schedule browser refreshes for visitors currently viewing your site. It’s ideal for single-page applications, live feeds, and any experience where fresh content matters.

Features

  • Request a browser refresh with a single click, using the client-side refresh interval you’ve configured.
  • Schedule any number of site refreshes in advance.
  • Refresh individual pages or posts when you need a more targeted update.
  • Choose refresh intervals from 30 seconds up to four hours.
  • Extend refresh permissions to any role with the “Invoke Force Refresh” capability.
  • Works with both parent and child themes.

Feature Requests and Bug Reports

  • Report bugs through the Support tab.
  • Share feature requests on GitHub. Force Refresh is open source, and pull requests are welcome.

Capturas de tela

  • Under Tools, you’ll find all settings for Force Refresh.
  • Use Schedule Force Refresh to pick a specific date and time for the refresh: no need to be at your desk when it goes out.
  • You can enable Force Refresh in the WordPress admin bar for quick access from anywhere in the dashboard.
  • Choose from popular refresh intervals or set a custom one. You’ll receive confirmation that browsers were requested to refresh.
  • To refresh a single page or post, locate the “Force Refresh” section under any page.
  • Want to see the latest features? Clicking “View Release Notes” will display the most recent features and fixes for Force Refresh.
  • If you’re having trouble, clicking on “Troubleshooting” will allow you to view the current settings for Force Refresh and allow you to enter Debugging Mode: an enhanced browser console logging mode that can be used to diagnose issues.

Instalação

Upload Force Refresh to your site and activate it. When you’re ready to request a refresh, go to “Tools”, select “Force Refresh”, and click “Refresh Site.”

Avaliações

11 julho, 2022
Nice Plugin, thank you! It would be great to have a few more visibility settings in the Tools > Force Refresh section. For example, show/hide for Posts, Pages, CPTs. I have hidden it on Posts from the Screen Options, but need to do this for all Users. Reason being, the Posts for this particular website are shown in a Carousel, and not the individual Posts page, so clicking the force refresh button does not work in that instance, but may make my client think they have refreshed it.
7 agosto, 2021
THis plugin does perfectly what is supposed to do. I had a little trouble after installing but was helped very fast en clear by Jorden Leven. This plugin does wat now other can. Marc Cuypers
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Colaboradores e desenvolvedores

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Colaboradores

Registro de alterações

3.0.0

Released on April 22, 2026

New Features

  • Introducing scheduled refreshes. Plan site-wide refreshes in advance so they happen exactly when you need them.
  • Force Refresh now supports a wider range of older WordPress and PHP versions, including WordPress 5.9 and PHP 7.4.
  • Redesigned the troubleshooting section with a clearer layout for debug controls, site details, health checks, and added an easier way to submit debugging information when you need help.

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.17.0

Released on April 12, 2026

New Features

  • Release notes are now grouped by minor version for easier browsing. You can also click any release to view the full details on the official GitHub repository.

Changes

  • Resolves an issue where Force Refresh unnecessarily contained WordPress.org plugin marketing assets.
  • Updated plugin status messaging in the admin interface to better highlight available updates, pre-release builds, and debugging mode.
  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.16.2

Released on April 8, 2026

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.16.1

Released on March 10, 2026

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.16.0

Released on February 24, 2026

Changes

  • Update minimum PHP version to 8.2.

2.15.0

Released on February 24, 2026

Changes

  • Update minimum WordPress version to 6.3.

2.14.0

Released on November 29, 2025

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 6.9.

2.13.2

Released on August 29, 2025

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where Force Refresh could fail to activate on sites running PHP 8.2.

2.13.1

Released on August 9, 2025

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.13.0

Released on April 21, 2025

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 6.8.

2.12.1

Released on January 12, 2025

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.12.0

Released on October 28, 2024

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 6.7.

2.11.1

Released on September 15, 2024

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.11.0

Released on July 7, 2024

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 6.6.

2.10.2

Released on May 27, 2024

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.10.1

Released on March 24, 2024

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.10.0

Released on March 24, 2024

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 6.5.

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where missing build files showed an unclear activation error.

2.9.4

Released on February 10, 2024

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where icons could fail to load in the admin UI.

2.9.3

Released on December 9, 2023

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where the Release Notes modal did not load correctly.

2.9.2

Released on November 17, 2023

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where the admin bar confirmation message did not include the selected refresh interval.
  • Resolves an issue where the refresh button label in the WordPress admin bar was incorrect.
  • Resolves an issue where search results pages could refresh continuously.
  • Resolves an issue where refreshing an individual page or post did not save correctly.
  • Resolves an issue where Admin Bar refresh settings were not saved correctly in the plugin options.

2.9.1

Released on November 10, 2023

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where activating Force Refresh could cause a site to crash.

2.9.0

Released on November 10, 2023

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 6.4.

2.8.3

Released on September 9, 2023

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.8.2

Released on August 9, 2023

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where release notes could display duplicate periods.
  • Resolves an issue where release notes could break on sites running PHP 7.4.

2.8.1

Released on August 5, 2023

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.8.0

Released on August 5, 2023

New Features

  • Add support for leaving plugin reviews from the admin UI.
  • Add support for custom refresh intervals between thirty seconds and four hours.
  • Add support for viewing plugin release notes from within the admin UI.

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where dismissed admin notifications could block interaction with the rest of the admin interface.
  • Resolves an issue where logo animations in the admin interface did not run with the intended timing.

2.7.0

Released on July 26, 2023

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 6.3.

2.6.1

Released on March 4, 2023

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.6.0

Released on June 11, 2022

New Features

  • Add support for opening the troubleshooting page directly from the main admin screen.

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where the refresh instructions read awkwardly on sites without a configured site name.

2.5.2

Released on January 23, 2022

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where the production release workflow shipped the beta JavaScript bundle instead of the production build.

2.5.1

Released on January 23, 2022

New Features

  • Add support for troubleshooting version checks that include development version strings.
  • Update WordPress version requirements.

2.5.0

Released on January 8, 2022

New Features

  • Add support for showing an admin notice when the installed plugin version is out of date.

2.4.0

Released on December 4, 2021

New Features

  • Add support for debug logging during the refresh countdown when Debug Mode is enabled.
  • Add support for a troubleshooting screen with debug information and a browser-console Debug Mode toggle.

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where the refresh flow could continue after an unsuccessful refresh request.
  • Resolves an issue where refresh checks could fail for site visitors.

2.3.0

Released on March 7, 2021

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where the admin options UI did not show the default 120-second interval as selected.
  • Resolves an issue where the admin bar button label incorrectly said “Force Refresh Sites.”

2.2.0

Released on November 29, 2020

New Features

  • Add support for WordPress 5.5.3.
  • Add support for a Vue-powered admin UI in place of the legacy Handlebars interface.

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where per-page refresh controls did not work correctly for posts whose slugs contained encoded characters.

2.1.6

Released on September 29, 2020

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where client refresh checks ignored the configured refresh interval.

2.1.5

Released on September 17, 2020

Fixes

  • Resolves issues running Force Refresh on sites using PHP 7.2.

2.1.4

Released on September 16, 2020

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where pages without a stored refresh version could enter a refresh loop after activation.
  • Resolves an issue where the admin panel did not display the default refresh interval as the selected option.

2.1.3

Released on September 16, 2020

Fixes

  • Resolves an issue where users without the Force Refresh capability could still request refreshes.

2.1.2

Released on September 7, 2020

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.1.1

Released on September 7, 2020

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

2.1.0

Released on October 18, 2018

New Features

  • Add support for requesting refreshes on custom post types.

2.0.0

Released on October 10, 2018

New Features

  • Add support for HTML templating with LightnCandy.

1.1.2

Released on February 28, 2018

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

1.1.1

Released on February 27, 2018

Changes

  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

1.0.0

Released on October 5, 2017

New Features

  • Initial release.