There are two ways to update W3Speedster: automatic and manual. Remember, if your license has expired, you can renew it on your account page.
Automatic update
Go to the Plugins page in the WordPress Dashboard (that’s {your site URL}/wp-admin/plugins.php)
Find the update notification below the W3Speedster entry, and click ‘Update Now’:
If you don’t see any update notification, you can try it a few hours later.
In your WordPress admin go to Dashboard > Updates and click ‘Check Again’. In some cases, this will cause the notice to appear.
If you still don’t see any update notification, your server may be blocking the requests to our update system, so you should use the manual update instead.
Manual Update
There are two possible ways to update W3Speedster manually.
Update via FTP
- Go to your account and download the latest version of W3Speedster
- Unzip the archive and then upload the ‘w3speedster’ folder to ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory
Update via WP Admin
Once you have downloaded W3Speedster from your account page, log in to WordPress Admin Dashboard of your website and follow these steps:
- Go to the Plugins page, deactivate and delete W3Speedster.
- Go to Plugins > Add new > Upload, upload the new .zip file, and activate your new W3Speedster version.
Update notification is missing
In some cases, you won’t see the update notification for W3Speedster in your WordPress admin panel at all. Luckily, there is a way to force the update notification of W3Speedster.
Visit the Plugins page in WordPress, and add the following query string to the end of the URL:
So it looks like this, with example.com representing your domain here:
Scrolling down to the W3Speedster plugin entry, you should see an update notification now.