Hi Guys,
This is a quick tip on WordPress which I think could be useful if you work with WP.
If you’ve just started to work with plugin development or are looking for a way to force wordpress to check new versions of Plugin then there is an easy way to do it and a bit technical way.
Option 1
This is for people who are non technical. All you need to do is to goto
http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/update-core.php
Replace yourdomain.com with your site domain name and click on Check Again button as shown below
This will do a quick check for updated plugins.
Option 2
If for any reason above does not work and you have access to your mySQL database then running the query below will do the trick for you
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UPDATE wp_options SET option_value='' WHERE option_name='_site_transient_update_plugins'; |
Deleting this transient won’t really break stuff either as far as I’ve tested but I prefer setting the values to NULL
Trick is that WordPress won’t repeatedly hit their website to check for updates rather it does it every few hours. Under_site_transient_update_plugins it store last_checked:1363755775
which is the timestamp for the last time they checked for any update. So it will count N hours (where N is 12 hours I guess, correct me if I am wrong) from this timestamp before firing another request
I hope that this will help you out.
Cheers.
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