jordanleven

ana565234,

Sorry for the late reply! This plugin simply forces an HTTP reload on users who are on your site when you request a refresh – it doesn’t do anything with server caches. If you’re using a different plugin like W3 Total Cache or cacheing with Nginx, this plugin won’t clear that cache.

You can, however, use this plugin in combination with a cacheing plugin. Let’s say, for instance, that you update content on a page. If you first clear your server cache and then use this plugin to request a refresh, all users currently connected to the site will have their browsers reload.

Quebro,

Just a heads up that I have migrated this enhancement request to GitHub. I’m going to close out the request here (since it’s not a support issue) and will post future updated on GitHub. While I don’t have an estimated turnaround time for this, I’ll try to remember to reach out to you if it’s included in a future update.

The issue tracker on GitHub will be at https://github.com/jordanleven/wp-force-refresh/issues/3.
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Jordan

Hey trevize,

Thanks for your patience! I wanted to reach out to you and let you know that I just released version 1.2, which includes support for adding the Force Refresh capability to non-Admin roles like Editor and Author. Just look for the “Invoke Force Refresh” capability in your role editor.

If you found this helpful, please leave a review!
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Jordan

Hey Quebro,

Great question. The concern for doing it so frequently is that it has the possibility of causing your site to crash.

The way the plugin works is that the user’s browser will check with the website every two minutes to make sure it’s up to date, and if not it’ll refresh. If the interval time were to change to a lower number, like two seconds, the browser would have to check with the website 30 times per minute. If there are multiple users on the site, it would have the possibility of bringing your site down. One of the solutions I’m thinking about in the future is the use of web server sockets, but that might take a little bit of development to iron that all out.

In the interim, I’ll look at adding options for the interval time (maybe selecting times between 30 seconds and 120 seconds). Does that sound like a good solution to you?

Jordan

Thanks Quebro! Send over any feature requests to the Support tab!

Jordan

Hey trevize,

Sorry for the late reply! That’s a great feature request. Stay tuned for an update in the next week or so to allow permissions for refreshing from the Editor and Author level.

Jordan

Awesome – thanks so much for letting me know! Have a good one Michael!
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Jordan

Hey Michael,

I just published a new version, 1.1.2, which will help me debug the issue on your site (as well as removing the dependency that might be causing your issue). Do you mind updated and seeing if that helps? If not, let me know and I’ll recheck your page for you.
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Jordan

Hey Michael,

Thanks for the update. It looks like there’s a dependency issue with a framework called Modernizr that I was using, but I’m going to remove it. I’ll post a message as soon as an update is available.

Ah gotcha. Darn you, Google!

Hey Michael,

Sorry about that — it looks like there was a dependency issue with jQuery. Do you mind updating the plugin to v1.1.1 and see if that resolves the issue? Otherwise, I’ll take a look at your site to see why it’s having trouble.
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Jordan

Howdy Nancy,

When a user visits a page, it gets the current unique ID associated with the version of the website. If, however, that version changes while a user is still on a page (that is, a user is on a page while you click the “Refresh Site” button) then that page will refresh.

Use case: someone is on your site looking at your calendar. You add an event to the calendar and click “Refresh Site”. If the user is still on the page when you click on that button, the user’s page will refresh within two minutes – showing the new event. One the user’s page reloads, it won’t reload again unless you press the button again.

Hope that clears things up! Let me know if you have any other questions!
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Jordan