MainWP Blog - 2015

We had an update recently to WordPress 4.3 that caused a few plugins to have some notices displayed on your websites and blogs. This is normal, over time old code and methods of doing things are deprecated, meaning they are “retired” from normal everyday use. The notice actually gave you a LOT of time to fix your code, as these are PHP4 style constructors. When you get a notice on your screen similar to the one above (which may also Continue reading the post...

I noticed another WordPress Management solution charges almost a $100 a year to use their two-factor authentication add-on however since MainWP is a WordPress Plugin you can add two-factor authentication to your MainWP Dashboard for free. In case you haven’t heard of it before, two-factor authentication is a security process in which the user provides two means of identification from separate categories of credentials. This post will go over two separate plugins that integrate WordPress and their two-factor authentication systems. Continue reading the post...

Your Dashboard allows you to show or hide useful footer bar. To do that, go to: MainWP > Settings > Dashboard Options page and locate Hide MainWP Footer button and set it to fit your needs: Continue reading the post...

This feature checks the last updated status of plugins and themes and alerts you if not updated in a specific amount of time. This gives you insight on if a plugin or theme may have been abandoned by the author: On the MainWP > Settings page, in the Upgrade Options box, you will be able to find Abandoned Plugins/Themes Tolerance option: Here you can set specific amount of time for this feature. By default, it is set to 365 which Continue reading the post...

This post is part of a tutorial on creating your own MainWP Extension 1. How to create a basic WordPress plugin 2. Turning that basic plugin into an MainWP Extension 3. Passing Information to the Child site 4. Extensions using Classes in MainWP 5. Monetizing your new Extension This is the third post in a series of posts (Post 1, Post 2) about creating a plugin that can be used as a MainWP Extension. Once we’re done this series of Continue reading the post...

This is Part 2 (part 1) in a series of blog posts surrounding WordPress Plugins, MainWP Extensions, and putting it all together in a useful way. Once we’re done this series of blog posts, you’ll have a working plugin recognized by WordPress that is also recognized by MainWP as an extension. It will be able to interact with your WordPress installation as well as your MainWP plugin. Look for Part 1 in the series here. This post is part of Continue reading the post...

“I’m not going to be doing many chages on my website, so I don’t have to worry about a lot of maintenance, right?” I chuckle (hopefully not outloud) every time a client asks me this that question. I have to laugh a little bit because it’s a question influenced by some of the worst advice we’ve ever heard about blog maintenance. Low levels of activity with updates on a website does not mean you don’t need any other ongoing website Continue reading the post...

I’m going to dive right into this blog post on creating a plugin for WordPress. There are countless tutorials out there and ways to code and structure a plugin, but for the purposes of these articles I’m going to make it short and simple. Once we’re done this series of blog posts, you’ll have a working plugin recognized by WordPress that is also recognized by MainWP as an extension. It will be able to interact with your WordPress installation as Continue reading the post...

MainWP is a WordPress management suite developed to be the most effective, self-hosted WordPress central dashboard. From the MainWP dashboard a user can control virtually all aspects of WordPress management including updating all of their sites with just one click of a button, schedule automated backups, monitor their sites, manage content across their network and much more. 1. Effortless Upgrades Do you have a busy schedule and dread all of the work you’ll be putting into upgrading sites, plugins and themes to the Continue reading the post...

Since the old MainWP extension licensing system is going to be retired make sure your extension are properly activated with an API key. To do that go to the MainWP extensions page and check for each extension if it shows the green “Activated” sign: If it shows “Enable” or “Disable” button it means that you need to activate it with an API key: Please follow this link if you need help with activating your extensions. Continue reading the post...