Busted

Force browsers to load the most recent file if modified.

Author:Paul Clark (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.4
WordPress version tested:4.2.2
Plugin version:1.4
Added to WordPress repository:21-11-2013
Last updated:02-06-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:94
Rated by:14
Plugin URI:http://github.com/pdclark/busted
Total downloads:33 515
Active installs:6 000+
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Saves you from asking "have you emptied your cache?".

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.

Photo credit: Brent Schneemancc