MainWP Blog - 2021

Years ago, a friend was preaching a sermon about community and one thing that stood out to me was that community and communication come from the same word. It was one of those “light bulb” moments for me. I never forgot that. We often throw around community in our industry, but few think about what it takes to get there. Communication. It is the center of any community. Think about it. To have a community, there need to be conversations Continue reading the post...

With WordPress 5.9 on track to be released on the 29th January 2022, it will bring with it Full Site Editing (FSE). In order to be able to use the full site editing feature in WordPress, you will need to be using a block-based theme. If you want to watch a preview of new features coming to WordPress then you should watch the State of the Word for 2022 from the 14th of December. Full Site Editing Full site editing Continue reading the post...

Today’s article is our second installment in our Year in Review at the MainWP blog. We had a lot of articles and several were Q&A, so I wanted to talk about those separately. So today, we will take a look at the Q&A articles for the year 2021 at MainWP. Q&A: Vito Peleg talks Web Agency Summit 2021 and new name web agency summit 2021 In the last couple of years, we have had several virtual summits in the WordPress Continue reading the post...

WordPress by default can enable a number of back-end and front-end features which can lead to performance issues but there are code snippet and plugin methods to easily remove the bloat. MainWP has an extension for being able to save and then run code snippets on all connected child sites. There are a vast number of code snippets that will allow you to remove front-end and back-end bloat in WordPress and a number of plugins on the MainWP GitHub code Continue reading the post...

Notice: This article is completely fiction. No part of this shall be considered true. Hopefully, you will find the Christmas Spirit so that Santa’s sleigh can fly this year. We have had many Q&A articles over the years here at MainWP, but this one is very special! Dennis noticed a testimonial from a guy named Kris a while back. We looked into it and it was actually Kris Kringle. Yes, THAT Kris Kringle! The one and only Santa Claus. After Continue reading the post...

Jetpack is a commonly used plugin on-sites the plugin will not remove all of its data when it is uninstalled. You can use a simple plugin that will delete two of the common option names in Jetpack. In order to delete the two main options for Jetpack, the plugin will need to be installed from the locally downloaded zip file and activated and it will delete the two options and then delete itself. jetpack_options Jetpack_private_options A complete list of the Continue reading the post...

It’s that time of year when we review the year we have had. I am sure you have been doing that already for your own business. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to be in a WordPress Year in Review Live podcast. I had fun talking about what has happened and where we are going. What are some reasons we do a year in review? First, I often find I am surprised to learn some kind Continue reading the post...

In the December Roundup, we are going to talk about the State of the Word, a train going to the State of the Word, Big Orange Heart, a few acquisitions, and some worthwhile articles to read. Before we get to those, let me share a couple of pieces of news. The WP Weekly Awards has closed and Davinder is tallying the results currently. He hopes to have them next week. I’m excited to see who won awards in the various Continue reading the post...

The WooCommerce Stripe Gateway is a widely used plugin for adding Stripe integration to your WooCommerce store. A recent release in version 5.7.0 of the Stripe plugin would cause a number of Stripe-related assets requests and external Stripe requests to load on single product pages and cart pages on your site. This would cause product pages and the cart page of the site to be much slower due to the extra requests being loaded from Stripe on them. The express Continue reading the post...

Have you ever wondered what your peers charge for web care services? Have you ever wondered what other services your peers offer? Yeah. Me too. That’s why I decided to find out. I created a survey to find out these answers and a few more. And since Google is powerful, I used its form feature to create the survey. It will only take a few minutes to fill out. In today’s article, I will talk a bit about the ins Continue reading the post...