Auto-Updates & Caching

All Plug and Pay plugins fully support WordPress's native automatic updates system. When a new version of our plugin is released, it will appear in your WordPress dashboard just like any other plugin available in the official repository.

By default, WordPress does not constantly check for plugin updates. To improve performance and reduce server load, WordPress checks for updates roughly every 12 hours and stores (caches) this information using a system called "Transients".

Because of this caching mechanism, if a new release was just published by Plug and Pay, you might not see the update notification in your dashboard immediately. You would normally have to wait until WordPress performs its next scheduled check.

If you know a new version has been released but it is not showing up in your WordPress admin area, you can manually force WordPress to clear its update cache and check for new versions:

The easiest way to force an update is built directly into WordPress:

1. Go to Dashboard > Updates in your WordPress admin menu.
2. Click the Check Again button at the top of the page.
3. Scroll down to the Plugins section to see if the Plug and Pay plugin update is now available.

If you are using a caching plugin (such as WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, or Redis Object Cache), its object cache might be holding onto old transient data.

• Navigate to your caching plugin's settings and look for a "Purge All Cache" or "Clear Object Cache" option.
• After clearing the cache, go back to Dashboard > Updates and try the "Check Again" button one more time.

If the standard methods fail, the update transient might be stuck. You can use a free plugin like Transients Manager to clear it:

1. Install and activate Transients Manager.
2. Go to Tools > Transients.
3. Search for update_plugins.
4. Click Delete next to the transient.
5. Go to the Plugins page to trigger a fresh check.

For advanced users and developers managing their sites via command line, you can force an update check and apply updates immediately using WP-CLI. To update a specific plugin (replace your-plugin-slug with the actual folder name of the plugin):

wp plugin update your-plugin-slug

To check for updates for all plugins without caching, you can delete the plugins transient:

wp transient delete update_plugins
wp plugin update --all