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force-plugin-updates-check

Force Plugin Updates Check

Adds a link to the toolbar that allows site admins to force WordPress to run a check for plugin updates

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Doesn't work on 4.4 ?

Doesn't work on 4.4 ?: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
I now one of my installed plugins has a new version and I would like to install it whithout waiting 6h or more.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Sadly, doesn't work with 4.2.4

Sadly, doesn't work with 4.2.4: users show performance, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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It appears to install ok, but there is no sub-menu created.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
How to force update checks?

How to force update checks?: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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I’ve installed the plugin just fine … but how does it work?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Every since 4.73, function is gone

Every since 4.73, function is gone: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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i installed this and it still doesnt detect new plugins?
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.69
It didn't work for me :-(

It didn't work for me :-(: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
It didn't work for me :-( I tried but it didn’t help me to fix this problem: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-detect-new-plugins-updates I tried but it didn’t help me to fix this problem: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-detect-new-plugins-updates This plugin forces the plugin update check to run now so you don’t have to wait for th
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Does the job! easy to add themes

Does the job! easy to add themes: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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easy to add themes Simple, but great plugin to use when testing update functionality for plugins.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Very helpful. Thanks

Very helpful. Thanks: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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Very helpful.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Works just fine on 4.2.4!

Works just fine on 4.2.4!: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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Works just fine on 4.2.4!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
It works

It works: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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It works It’s simple and it works.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Nice Plugin

Nice Plugin: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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Nice Plugin Just one word – Awesome 🙂 Just one word – Awesome 🙂

Competitor Context

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Advanced Automatic Updates weak incumbent · intel 77.1 · weakness 67.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
WPCore Plugin Manager weak incumbent · intel 76.3 · weakness 67.0
weak incumbent
stale update history 12 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
source 1 source 2
Wp Favs – Plugin Manager praise owner · intel 75.1 · weakness 65.8
praise owner
stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) setup support 2 source links Evidence only
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This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

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Plugin Notes Plus praise owner · intel 75.0 · weakness 65.7
praise owner
stale update history 13 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Evidence only
Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

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Plugin Security Scanner praise owner · intel 74.7 · weakness 65.4
praise owner
stale update history 11 collected complaint signal(s) security bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
WP Easy Uploader praise owner · intel 73.4 · weakness 62.7
praise owner
stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect themes layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
Hide Plugins praise owner · intel 72.5 · weakness 63.3
praise owner
stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature setup 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
source 1 source 2
WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and Themes praise owner · intel 70.7 · weakness 52.9
praise owner
3 unresolved support thread(s) 6 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight rollback jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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neutral Compatibility with WP5 support · 2018-12-12T11:05:58+00:00 · low severity · update

Compatibility with WP5: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Compatibility with WP5 Hello, The plugin is giving me the compatibility information of 3.5–4.9, so I’m just checking all plugins compatibility before upgrading to WP 5.
compatibility form hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Does the job (5 stars) review · 2018-11-20T15:40:12+00:00 · medium severity · update

Does the job: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Does the job Effective plugin. Thanks. Effective plugin. Thanks.
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint How to force update checks? support · 2018-08-21T14:26:53+00:00 · medium severity · update

How to force update checks?: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve installed the plugin just fine … but how does it work?
compatibility setup seo hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Very helpful. Thanks (5 stars) review · 2018-03-08T03:01:48+00:00 · medium severity · update

Very helpful. Thanks: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very helpful.
support hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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praise Must have! (5 stars) review · 2017-10-13T15:03:22+00:00 · medium severity · update

Must have!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: perfect!
quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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complaint Every since 4.73, function is gone support · 2017-03-08T04:52:38+00:00 · medium severity · update

Every since 4.73, function is gone: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: i installed this and it still doesnt detect new plugins?
support setup hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise It works (5 stars) review · 2017-01-25T19:44:09+00:00 · medium severity · update

It works: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: It works It’s simple and it works.
easy reliable hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
neutral There is no “Check for Plugin Updates” link in the submenu on 4.7 support · 2017-01-06T10:48:46+00:00 · medium severity · update

There is no “Check for Plugin Updates” link in the submenu on 4.7: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: There is no “Check for Plugin Updates” link in the submenu on 4.7 See heading. See heading. @kontur are you looking in the Plugins sub menu on the left side or in the admin tool bar? It’s supposed to be in the admin toolbar.h Ah, I suppose this is too subtle. I didn’t even notice anything changed, but can confirm the “update icon” in the top bar has a drop d
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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praise Did what it said (5 stars) review · 2016-06-17T19:47:45+00:00 · medium severity · update

Did what it said: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Did what it said This saved me some time.
value hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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complaint It didn't work for me :-( (1 star) review · 2016-04-26T08:38:27+00:00 · medium severity · update

It didn't work for me :-(: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It didn't work for me :-( I tried but it didn’t help me to fix this problem: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-detect-new-plugins-updates I tried but it didn’t help me to fix this problem: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-detect-new-plugins-updates This plugin forces the plugin update check to run now so you don’t have to wait for th
support hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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complaint Doesn't work on 4.4 ? support · 2016-02-06T21:56:42+00:00 · medium severity · update

Doesn't work on 4.4 ?: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I now one of my installed plugins has a new version and I would like to install it whithout waiting 6h or more.
compatibility missing feature setup easy hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise I use it everytime. My lovely favourite (5 stars) review · 2015-08-31T11:52:04+00:00 · medium severity · update

I use it everytime. My lovely favourite: users praise value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: I use it everytime.
value quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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praise Works just fine on 4.2.4! (5 stars) review · 2015-08-25T14:47:08+00:00 · medium severity · update

Works just fine on 4.2.4!: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works just fine on 4.2.4!
setup reliable hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Sadly, doesn't work with 4.2.4 support · 2015-08-23T12:57:55+00:00 · medium severity · update

Sadly, doesn't work with 4.2.4: users show performance, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It appears to install ok, but there is no sub-menu created.
performance missing feature pricing support hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Nice Plugin (5 stars) review · 2015-05-30T12:36:31+00:00 · medium severity · update

Nice Plugin: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Nice Plugin Just one word – Awesome 🙂 Just one word – Awesome 🙂
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Does the job! easy to add themes (5 stars) review · 2014-10-20T21:55:11+00:00 · medium severity · update

Does the job! easy to add themes: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: easy to add themes Simple, but great plugin to use when testing update functionality for plugins.
compatibility easy quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Just what I was looking for! (5 stars) review · 2014-07-31T11:46:27+00:00 · medium severity · update

Just what I was looking for!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Just what I was looking for! It seems to work! What more could I possibly ask for… It seems to work! What more could I possibly ask for…
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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