MainWP Blog - Dennis Dornon

The release of MainWP 3.1, for both the Dashboard and Child plugins, includes 2 major upgrades. The all new basic integration with WP-CLI and better handling of Extensions when adding a new site to your Dashboard. Check the full Changelogs: MainWP Dashboard MainWP Child MainWP + WP-CLI If you haven’t heard of WP-CLI it’s a “set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.” The Continue reading the post...

Late last week we released version 3.0, a major updates to both the MainWP Dashboard and MainWP Child plugins. On first glance MainWP 3.0 may not visually appear much different than previous versions but under the hood it contains over 8000 lines of code changes! All of those code changes are meant to not only enhance security but to also bring the MainWP code base in line with WordPress coding standards. This includes proper formatting and documentation of the code Continue reading the post...

We have been working a few months on a rather big release that includes a major refactoring of the MainWP Dashboard and Child code in order to bring it more in line with WordPress coding standards. Along with the code refactoring there is almost 60 additional fixes, adds and updates for the Dashboard plugin and 15 changes to the Child. We have tested this update thoroughly on many different server setups but it’s impossible to test every configuration. That is Continue reading the post...

2015 so far … 2015, has been an awesome year so far for MainWP: Launched 8 brand new Extensions Released 152 Extension updates Committed 28 version updates of the MainWP Dashboard Hired 2 new team members Answered 3289 support tickets with a 93% awesome rating Surpassed 10,000 Extension customers Gave back to the community and sponsored 7 WordCamps Everything considered MainWP is looking very healthy and poised to move forward and we owe all the thanks to you, without members Continue reading the post...

Our most exciting Extension release ever!   At MainWP innovation is in our DNA and we have brought many innovations to WordPress Management sphere including: The first and still only fully open source WordPress Management system The first and still only WordPress manager dashboard that can be run directly from WordPress The only system with a full API allowing users to customize the system as much as they want. And today I am proud to announce that the tradition continues Continue reading the post...

Good website design and management should not be based on feelings or personal preferences. Rather it should be based on data and facts that move you closer to your goals. That’s why I love A/B split testing. It’s all about figuring out the correct path for your design based on hard data. If you’re serious about measuring the ROI of a website, then A/B split testing will help you work towards the best design by allowing you to test different options Continue reading the post...

Late last week the Sucuri security blog announced that have seen a large uptick in brute force attacks on WordPress sites using XML-RPC and today we’ll go over 3 very quick and easy ways to turn off XML – RPC on all your MainWP Child sites. The Sucuri Blog goes into great detail on how the attack works and I recommend you check that out if you want the full details. MainWP does not communicate with your Child sites through Continue reading the post...

Note: We heard that the DesktopServer is discontinuing soon. We are preparing a knowledge base article to help you run MainWP locally. We will keep you posted, stay tuned! We’ve had numerous support questions asking how to set up the MainWP Dashboard locally and in all honesty we would basically say, it is not something we would recommend you doing if you don’t already know how to set up a local server. The reason for that is that there are so Continue reading the post...

In this video Osman explains how you can easily manage your WordPress sites using the MainWP plugin. In less than 3 minutes of your time, he explains how to install MainWP on your master WordPress site, followed by explaining how MainWP child can be installed on your child site. This all is then brought together via a brief example of connecting your child site to MainWP on your main WordPress site. Stay tuned for more videos! Continue reading the post...

In this video Osman from IMMATURE explains his need for a WordPress management tool like MainWP. In the MainWP videoblog series, Osman will be discussing how MainWP is influencing his work for the better in future videos. Different aspects will be discussed as well as explained. So stay tuned for more videos! Continue reading the post...