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Why We Love A/B Split Testing (And You Should, Too!)

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 against each other to discover which is the higher performing design. You start by picking a key conversion metric (like

Stop XML-RPC Bruteforce Attacks by using MainWP

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 XML-RPC so it is safe to turn it off without affecting MainWP usability . However some plugins, such as Jetpack,

How to use DesktopServer to run your MainWP Dashboard locally

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 many variables with a local install and not much we can do to offer support to people using them, so

The key to managing all of your WordPress sites: explained in less than 3 minutes.

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!

How MainWP can become your next Wordpress management tool

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!

Database Upgrades after Automatic Update

Today WordPress released 4.3.1 a security and maintenance update that should of been automatically updated on most of your Child sites.  You can check the Announcement post or release notes for more details on what is contained in this new version. We noticed with this version about 30% of our testing sites were returning the database upgrade required message “WordPress has been updated! Before we can send you on your way, what have to update your database to the newest version” How to verify your database is updated or update it if needed In order for us to update those

Update to MainWP Security Issue September 7 2015

It’s been about 24 hours since our last announcement and about 48 hours since the first report of any issues (Check here for the original post) . Where things currently stand: So far we have only see Child sites running version 2.0.26 or lower affected. The first report came in about 4 days after the release of the security fix and still only affects un-updated sites. Update: Septemeber 9th We have found that the malicious file makes it look like you are running MainWP Child 2.0.27 even if you are on a lower version so be sure you are running

MainWP Security Update September 7 2015

Please check this post for additional information as of September 8th 2015! This is something we have been tracking today and we currently have reports from 5 users about someone targeting MainWP users using versions of the MainWP Child Plugin older than 2.0.27. On each site, we were able to check, an older version of the Child Plugin was being used. Using this exploit the person is able to gain full access to your Child sites.   If you updated last week to the current version you should be fine but we added a simple test and cleanup into the

WordPress 4.3 Cron Issue – Fix it quick with MainWP

WordPress 4.3 has a cron issue which may affect your sites.  There is a bug in WordPress 4.3, core not MainWP, which can affect some sites causing high CPU loads and / or Database issues but don’t worry with MainWP you can have it fixed on all your sites in just a few steps. The Issue  “Just spent a few hours debugging two sites which went down and tracked it down to wp_options cron exploding in size. There apparently is a bug in 4.3 which causes the cron to grow in size. This can cause all kinds of issues, particularly

How to Set Free Two-Factor Authentication on Your MainWP Dashboard

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. You can try them both and go with the one that works best for you. 1. WP Clef Update 3/6/17:

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