Force Refresh
by jordanleven · WordPress.org page · Website
Force Refresh has 4,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 152,516 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 14, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Force Refresh at a glance
Is Force Refresh well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- 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
Force Refresh reviews and ratings
12 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Works perfectly
Best Plugin to remotely refresh all without disabling or clearing CDN caches
Jack Climax -
Fantastic plugin and support!
Excellent tool and amazing support! Thanks for the great work with the community!
laserstore -
Works well
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.
stv11c -
Fantastic plugin. Does the job perfectly
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
marccuypers -
Saved my day!
Thanks for making this.
rengland77 -
Just what I needed – great plugin!
Really really good!!! Thank you!!!
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Details
Force Refresh lets you request page refreshes for visitors viewing your site, whether you want to refresh the whole site or a single page.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- live reload
- page refresh
- refresh
- reload
- scheduled
- Version
- 3.2.0
- Last updated
- Aug 14, 2026
- First published
- Oct 8, 2017
- Requires WordPress
- 5.9
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Force Refresh FAQ
What does Force Refresh do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Force Refresh offers 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 and Extend refresh permissions to any role with the “Invoke Force Refresh” capability.
How many active installs does Force Refresh have?
WordPress.org reports 4,000+ active installs for Force Refresh as of September 7, 2026.
Is Force Refresh still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 14, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Is Force Refresh free?
Force Refresh is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.