Shortcode for Refresh

  • Resolved steveraven

    (@steveraven)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    The plugin looks interesting, but I see on another support thread that you say:

    The purpose of this plugin is to facilitate the communication between the admin and the user – conveying to the user’s browser that the admin would like the browser to refresh. The use case you described falls outside of that purpose and more into general frontend.

    I disagree to some extent with this statement.

    I’m quite used to poddling along, and clearing my WPRocket cache to keep things up to date.

    The WPRocket cache however is set to automatically refresh every two hours, so everything will be refreshed anyway (in two hours)

    The reason I’m disagreeing to some extent, is that I have a php website clock on my website, which DOESN’T refresh unless a user refreshes their browser after a couple of hours, or if the user clicks ‘shift + F5’, or I go in and manually re-clear the cache.

    In this case, I would say that ‘ the purpose of this plugin should be to allow the user to refresh their browser even if the admin is asleep, having a coffee, or on the toilet’.

    We have to assume that not all users are going to have the brains to work out that hitting ‘shift and F5’ will refresh the browser anyway, and are going to need a button that says ‘refresh’ on it in big red letters.

    So – is there any chance of having a shortcode that a user could click and refresh their browser without having to disturb the admin?

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  • Plugin Author jordanleven

    (@jordanleven)

    steveraven,

    I understand your points and appreciate your time for making them. The reason why this plugin is called, “Force Refresh” and not just “Refresh” is because the purpose of this plugin to facilitate the communication between admin and user. Refreshing a users browser can be done in so many different ways, (a user clicking return in their browser, a user clicking the reload icon in their browser, a user clicking a button in a form that has no target, a user clicking a button that has an action of window.reload()), so I’m not entirely sure that the world needs another method.

    In your particular case, it sounds like you want to schedule a specific time for a page to refresh instead of relying on a user to click a button after your clock has run out. For example, if your clock runs out every day at 6:00PM, you’d schedule all pages to refresh at 6:00PM.

    Does that sound like it fits your needs more?

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