Description
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 between 30 seconds and two minutes after making the request.
- 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.
Feature Requests and Bug Reports
Please report any feature requests you have or bugs you encounter under the Support tab.
Screenshots
Under Tools, you can click "Refresh Site" 
After clicking the button, you'll receive confirmation that you've requested connected browsers to refresh. 
To refresh a single page or post, locate the "Force Refresh" section under any page.
Installation
Upload the Force Refresh plugin to your site, and then simply activate it. To force a refresh, just navigate to “Tools”, click on “Force Refresh” and click the button that says, “Refresh Site.”
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Contributors & Developers
“Force Refresh” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
2.3.0
Released on March 7, 2021
- Address issue with default refresh intervals
- Update button text in Admin Bar
2.2.0
Released on November 29, 2020
- Add support for WordPress 5.5.3
- Update Admin UI to use Vue instead of Handlebars
- Address issue with encoded post names
2.1.6
Released on September 29, 2020
- Issue with refresh interval being ignored
2.1.5
Released on September 17, 2020
- Address issue running plugin in PHP 7.2
2.1.4
Released on September 16, 2020
- Address refresh loop bug when activating
- Issue displaying default refresh intervals
2.1.3
Released on September 16, 2020
- Address refresh permissions issue
2.1.2
Released on September 7, 2020
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes
2.1.1
Released on September 7, 2020
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes
2.1.0
Released on October 19, 2018
- Add support to request refreshes on custom post types
2.0.0
Released on October 11, 2018
- Move from Xamin to LightnCandy for HTML templates
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes
1.1.2
Released on February 28, 2018
- Update dependencies
1.1.1
Released on February 28, 2018
- Bug fixes
1.0.0
Released on October 5, 2017
- Initial release