Title: update_page_cache
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# update_page_cache( array $pages )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 3.4.0. Use [update_post_cache()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_post_cache/)
instead.

Alias of [update_post_cache()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_post_cache/).

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [update_post_cache()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_post_cache/):
   Posts and pages are the same, alias is intentional
 * [update_post_cache()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_post_cache/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$pages`arrayrequired

list of page objects

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function update_page_cache( &$pages ) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.4.0', 'update_post_cache()' );

    	update_post_cache( $pages );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L3119)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L3119-L3123)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [update_post_cache()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_post_cache/)`wp-includes/post.php` |

Updates posts in cache.

  | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_page_cache/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.4.0/) | Deprecated. Use [update_post_cache()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_post_cache/)  | 
| [1.5.1](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/1.5.1/) | Introduced. |

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