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reBusted!

by Simon Prosser

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Description

Saves you from asking “have you emptied your cache?”.

Forked and updated for todays WordPress and PHP from the original plugin by Paul Clark.

Features

  • Safe to leave running on live sites.
  • Only refreshes browser cache for a file if it has been modified.
  • Resolves Content Delivery Network (CDN) issues. No need to purge CDN cache.
  • Multisite compatible.
  • “Just works” – no configuration necessary.

Requirements

Requires scripts use any of the below functions to load. Almost all files meet these requirements. The only case it doesn’t account for is when URLs are hard-coded. This shouldn’t ever be done, since it can break sites for other reasons.

  1. Search for “reBusted” under WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New
  2. Install the plugin.
  3. Activate the plugin.

Do the job as described, good work!

By carlostalaga (catonfire) on November 20, 2023

I use it on different hosting platforms, and it works perfectly.

A must

By Lovro Hrust (lovor) on October 5, 2023

This is a great tool for advanced developer. It saves you from manually versioning your css/scripts or devising your own versioning solutions based on system time which would reload css/js every time, slowing a page load. This ensures only changed styles/scripts are reloaded. Five stars!

Lo máximo

By juvesu on May 25, 2023

muy bueno, simple y poderoso

Just works

By Taco Loco (weavebranding) on February 8, 2022

Activate and relax. Must use plugin on all our sites.

Works very well

By mcostam1985 on September 21, 2021

It does the job. You upload or do changes to the css, js of the site, and with just pressing the F5, everybody gets the new changes.

Saved my day.

By rika13 (rikamaa) on February 23, 2021

The style.css just wouldn't update any more, nothing I did helped. Version numbers, flushing caches, tried all the tricks I found in the net. The domain and site owner wouldn't answer my msgs. After hours of frusration I installed this, and.. aaaaahh! Like sunshine after a year of rain. Thank you for this plugin. Great work.

Works perfectly

By ypeynaud on February 12, 2021

A simple and efficient plugin avoiding ugly displays when updating CSS, particularly with design builders where css can't be completely controlled. Version 1.1 perfectly working out of the box. Thanks!

My saviour

By Keryn (b-summers) on June 30, 2020

This plugin has been a godsend for Beaver Builder sites where the CSS version number is impossible to update (even with its own cache clearing tool).

Worked perfectly

By mikechalmers on May 8, 2020

I appreciate this so much, many things weren't working on a website I'm working on with an uncommunicative host and this worked instantly.

Great. Does exactly what it says!

By gecko_guy on December 10, 2019

What more can I say! It does exactly what is says on the tin! Previously I had to keep the Chrome Dev Tools open with the option to disable the cache (while dev tools is open) to get my child theme style.css version number to update after a change on page refresh, but now that's no longer required. Also see it being very useful for when clients are waiting for a quick change and have the previous version stuck in the browser cache. Thanks, I'll be using it on other sites going forward 🙂

1.2

  • Fixed PHP warnings when poorly coded plugins use wp_enqueue_script() wrong.

1.1

  • Fixed fatal error on ancient PHP versions.

1.0

  • Forked from original Busted! plugin and updated for todays WordPress/PHP.
  • PHPUnit tests added.
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