Super Light Cache Buster Plugin

Can’t see the changes supposedly made by your developer? Or maybe you’re just tired of your site’s annoying cache? Use this plugin to cache a break!

With a compressed size of under 30KB, this simple plugin adds random version numbers to CSS & JS assets to prevent browser caching getting in the way of your happiness.

Super Light Cache Buster also prevents page caching by using Cache-Control directives.

You can completely disable the plugin from the settings page when you are not using it or keep it enabled if the site is under development. 😀

Available Hooks

Cache Buster is becoming more developer friendly. Below you can find the plugin’s first hooks and details about them.

slcb_allow_in_backend 

• Filters whether Cache Buster should run (randomize asset version numbers) in the back end.
• Return true to enable Cache Buster. false is the default.

slcb_version_name 

• Filters the version name for assets to allow using a custom version name (or number).
• Return the version name e.g. you can use the value 2.0.1.
• When this filter is in use, version numbers will not be randomized. Instead, you will have to change the version name manually to rename assets.
• This filter overrides the “Version Name” setting in the dashboard.
• The provided version name must be a valid query parameter. As a safety, if the provided string breaks any URLs, it will not be used.

Feedback

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1. Upload the entire super-light-cache-buster folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Clear all caches on your site and server (hosting).
4. Cache a break from caching :-).

1.4.1

Release Date – March 18, 2024

Fixed

• Resolved PHP 8.2 deprecation warnings.

1.4.0

Release Date – October 17, 2023

Added

• Introduce the “Version Name” setting to allow using a custom version name instead of a random one.
• Apply a filter to the Version Name setting to allow overriding it.

Enhanced

• Improve code architecture.
• Add a link to SLCB settings next to the plugin description on the plugins screen.

1.3.0

Release Date – June 3, 2023

Added

• Introduce a button to refresh the page without caching.
• Apply a filter to determine whether Cache Buster runs in the wp-admin area.

1.2.0

Release Date – November 13, 2022

Added

• Introduce Internationalization (Make Cache Buster translatable).
• Introduce a notice to clear the cache when settings are saved.

Fixed

• Patch XSS vulnerability.
• Patch File-Handling vulnerability.

Enhanced

• Improve inline code documentation.
• Improve WordPress Coding Standards conformance.

1.1.2

Release Date – September 29, 2022

Fixed

• Fix warning/error thrown when Cache Buster is uninstalled.

Enhanced

• Use a static method when register_uninstall_hook is invoked.

1.1.1

Release Date – May 06, 2022

Enhanced

• Don’t randomize asset version numbers in the admin area.
• Hide Cache Buster’s status from non-admins.

1.1.0

Release Date – April 25, 2022

Added

• Introduce plugin settings to enable/disable cache prevention and control its intensity.
• Introduce a menu item to show Cache Buster’s status in the admin bar.
• Introduce Cache-Control directives.

Enhanced

• Delete database options when Cache Buster is uninstalled.
• Improve overall code efficiency.

1.0.0

Release Date – June 24, 2020

• Initial release