Force Refresh
Force Refresh is a simple plugin that allows you to force a page refresh for users currently visiting your site on a per-page or post basis.
5(12 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Force Refresh is a WordPress reload plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 131K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 8.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: Easy Auto Reload – Auto Refresh.
5/512 reviews
4.0K+active installs
50%resolved
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Force Refresh is the best plugin for requesting browsers to refresh their page. Perfect for single-page applications or pages that bring in feeds, this simple plugin will allow you to force a page refresh for users currently visiting any page of your site.
Features
- Support for both parent and child themes.
- Allows an admin to simply click a button to request browsers to refresh their page. This is done within your selected customized client-side refresh interval.
- Ability to add refreshing capabilities to any role using the “Invoke Force Refresh” capability.
- Ability to refresh on a per-page or post basis.
- Customizable client-side refresh intervals, including the ability to customize any refresh interval between 30 seconds and four hours.
Feature Requests and Bug Reports
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works perfectly
by Jack Climax·2 years ago
Best Plugin to remotely refresh all without disabling or clearing CDN caches
Fantastic plugin and support!
by laserstore·2 years ago·1 reply
Excellent tool and amazing support! Thanks for the great work with the community!
Works well
by stv11c·3 years 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.
Fantastic plugin. Does the job perfectly
by marccuypers·4 years 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
Saved my day!
by rengland77·5 years ago
Thanks for making this.
Download Trends
Today: 25Yesterday: 44This week: 271Period total: 25K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.16
39.6%
v2.14
21.9%
Other
20.6%
v2.13
11.5%
v2.12
6.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.16.1
Released on March 10, 2026
Bug Fixes
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes.
Contributors
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