Force Refresh

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1. ★★★★★ Jack Climax

   2.7y ago

   Best Plugin to remotely refresh all without disabling or clearing CDN caches

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2. ★★★★★ laserstore

   3.1y ago

   Excellent tool and amazing support! Thanks for the great work with the community!

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3. ★★★★★ stv11c

   4.1y ago

   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.

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4. ★★★★★ marccuypers

   5.1y ago

   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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5. ★★★★★ rengland77

   5.5y ago

   Thanks for making this.

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6. ★★★★★ knuppi

   5.9y ago

   Really really good!!! Thank you!!!

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7. ★★★★★ Andrew Sheard

   6.4y ago

   Many thanks @jordanleven for making a great plugin, which does exactly what it’s supposed to do. Really useful in these corona-crazy days when many of us suddenly find ourselves hosting timed live streams on our sites, and wanting to make the stream play without our users having to refresh the page themselves. If I can make one small suggestion: in Dashboard>Tools>Force Refresh please consider replacing the wording “Refresh interval” with “Refresh will occur within”. So that, with the specified time, it reads “Refresh will occur within 30 seconds” (or whatever). This avoids an unwanted implication that refreshes will repeatedly occur with a 30 second (or whatever) interval between them.

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8. ★★★★★ wpu9000

   6.4y ago

   Force Refresh is brilliant. Before customers were not seeing the daily updates to the website because so many people do not refresh their browsers. They were not seeing the changes and new product added. Now I can push these changes through and customers are responding. An essential plugin for us now. Thank you!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.1.1 Released on June 13, 2026 Changes Performance enhancements and bug fixes. 3.1.1
2. — Version 3.1.0 Released on May 16, 2026 New Features Static file polling is now available as an opt-in setting. Enable it to reduce server load on high-traffic sites by serving version checks from a static file instead of a live API re 3.1.0
3. — Version 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 3.0.0
4. — Version 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 i 2.17.0
5. — Version 2.16.2 Released on April 8, 2026 Changes Performance enhancements and bug fixes. 2.16.2
6. — Version 2.16.1 Released on March 10, 2026 Changes Performance enhancements and bug fixes. 2.16.1

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Live Auto Refresh (Hot Reload / Live Reload for WordPress Developers) 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• Easy Auto Reload – Auto Refresh 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• LH Fresh Content 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• WP Missed Schedule Posts 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
• WP-Cron Status Checker 5K+ installs · 3.7★ · 1 shared tag B
• Merge + Minify + Refresh 4K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A

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Force Refresh: 4K+ active installs, 5.0★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/force-refresh