---
title: "Auto Refresh WordPress with Refresh Post Page WUD"
description: "A valuable feature for some WordPress websites - e.g. news, blogs - is the ability to automatically refresh certain pages to ensure viewers are seeing the latest content. Business today moves fast..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/auto-refresh-wordpress-with-refresh-post-page-wud/
date: 2018-09-05
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["WordPress Hosting", "WordPress Tutorials"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Auto Refresh WordPress with Refresh Post Page WUD

A valuable feature for some WordPress websites – e.g. news, blogs – is the ability to **automatically refresh certain pages** to ensure viewers are seeing the latest content. Business today moves fast and today’s consumers want to be updated immediately. Below we’ll cover achieving this with [Refresh Post Page WUD](https://wordpress.org/plugins/refresh-post-page-wud/) plugin.

This plugin is discontinued as of December, 2018. The plugin is no longer available for download. We recommend you [ask the WordPress community doing auto-refreshing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-automatically-refresh-a-page/).

## Install Refresh Post Page WUD

1. [Log into your WordPress website directly](/support/edu/wordpress/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard/) or from [Softaculous](/support/edu/wordpress/how-to-log-into-wordpress-using-softaculous/).
2. Select **Plugins** from the sidebar and select **Add New**.
3. Search “*Refresh Post Page WUD*” in the search bar.
4. Select **Install Now** to install the plugin. [![searching and installing Refresh Post Page WUD](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/wordpress-plugins/wp-refresh-post-page-1-install.png)](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/wordpress-plugins/wp-refresh-post-page-1-install.png)  
5. Select **Activate** in the same location. You can also enable it from **Installed Plugins** on the left. [![Activating Refresh Post Page WUD post-installation](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/wordpress-plugins/wp-refresh-post-page-2-activate.png)](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/wordpress-plugins/wp-refresh-post-page-2-activate.png)  

### Configure a Page or Post to Auto-Refresh

1. [Create or edit a page or post](/support/edu/wordpress/create-edit-pages-posts-wordpress/) to set up auto-refresh.
2. In the widget titled **Refresh Page (or Post) Content WUD**, specify a **time to refresh** in seconds. **Note**: The value is *0* by default, disabling auto-refresh for that page or post. [![Typing time to refresh a post](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/wordpress-plugins/wp-refresh-post-page-3-setting.png)](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/wordpress-plugins/wp-refresh-post-page-3-setting.png)  
3. Press **Publish** and **View Post** to check how fast your website auto-refreshes.

With this plugin, you make it easier on yourself to present the most current website to your customers. To manually force all webpages to refresh, consider the [Force Refresh](https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-refresh/) plugin.