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The Worst Advice We’ve Ever Heard About Website Maintenance

“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 maintenance. The reality is that even if there aren’t any content changes on the website (which isn’t a good strategy

MainWP begins integrating the most popular backup plugins

The History of MainWP Backups When we first started on the journey that has become MainWP, we didn’t even have a backups section in the plugin. It wasn’t until it was suggested by a few users in the Beta that we even thought of adding it. As first time Plugin developers we jumped at the chance to add something “cool” to the plugin without fully vetting the idea and to this day that decision has eaten up more development and support time than I care to admit. We have spent so much of our resources on backup development and backup

MainWP Critical Child Security Update

MainWP Child 2.0.9.2 contains a critical security update, and you should update all your Child sites as soon as possible. You can update all your Child sites directly through your MainWP dashboard (be sure to Sync your sites to see the available update), or download the MainWP Child manually here. Yesterday we were contacted by the Sucuri Labs team regarding a vulnerability that would allow attackers to log into any account without requiring the password as long as they know the accounts username. Fortunately, we have no reports of the vulnerability being used in the wild. However, now that this update is

Important: MainWP Security Release

Important Security Update Please Update your MainWP Child Plugins to 2.03 Earlier today we were notified through our White Hat Reward program of a potential security issue.  We are not currently releasing the details of the issue until users have a chance to upgrade their Child plugins. Quickly Update all your Child Plugins If you want to quickly upgrade only your MainWP Child you can change your Dashboard from showing upgrades per site to updates per Plugin. This will allow you to easily see all sites that need the MainWP Child upgrade.

MainWP Introduces The Bundle and Lifetime Licenses

Introducing “The Bundle” from MainWP We now have almost 30 Extensions and ever since the second MainWP Extension was released users have requested the ability to purchase all Extensions at one price. With “The Bundle” that is now possible!  With the purchase of “The Bundle” you not only get all the MainWP Extensions currently released but also all future MainWP Extension each with a lifetime license for a very limited time introductory price of $399. But what about the Extensions you already bought? We love our customers and appreciate everything you have invested in us so, for the next two months

MainWP 2.0 Released

MainWP 2.0 released We are excited to release the all new MainWP 2.0, focused largely on backups and overall Dashboard usability. With almost 3 months of development and 1000’s of lines of code changes this release is our most extensive and exciting update. MainWP 2.0 by the numbers 82 Days in development Over 100 active beta testers (testers with at least 1 report) The Dashboard plugin had 77 files changed with 7,037 lines added or modified The Child Plugin had 19 files changed with 2,924 lines added or modified 4 all new Archive Types for backups One of the bigger changes in this update is that Instead of only being able to backup in Zip format, which some servers

MainWP Extensions Update – October 24 2014

Extension Updates Last Week This week we updated the following Extension: WordFence Extension Version 0.0.3 Fixed: Bug for extension showing a white screen after activation Boilerplate Version 1.8 Added: Additional Plugin Info Post Dripper Version 0.7 Added: Additional Plugin Info

MainWP Extensions Update – October 3 2014

Extension Updates this Week This week we updated the following Extensions: Wordfence Extension Version 0.0.2 Added: Network Live Traffic feature Added: Support for Premium (paid) Wordfence features Added: Block/Unblock IP across entire MainWP network feature Changed: Licence options, updated to allow to add different API keys to child sites Updated: CSS and layout Client Reports Version 0.0.4 Fixed: [plugin.current.version] and [theme.current.version] tokens Google Analytics Extension Version 0.0.8 Added: Auto assign child site feature Fixed: Issue with tokens for the Client Reports extension Sucuri Extension Version 0.0.7 Tweaked: Notification email template format

MainWP Extensions Update – Sept 25 2014

Extension Updates this Week This week we updated the following Extensions:Branding Extension Version 0.0.5 Added: Reset Button Added: Hide Nag Updates feature Added: Hide Screen Options feature Added: Hide Help Box feature Added: Hide Post Meta Boxes features Added: Hide Page Meta Boxes feature Added: Additional Plugin info Added: Toggle functionality to all option boxes (with remembering the opened/closed state) Updated: CSS/HTML Layout Updated: Options tooltips Fixed: 1 PHP Warning Fixed: Child plugin options not completely hidden Client Reports Version 0.0.4 Added: WooCommerce Status tokens Added: Advanced Uptime Monitor tokens Added: Un-Archive feature Fixed: Extension automatically archiving scheduled reports Advanced

MainWP Extensions Update – Sept 19 2014

Extension Updates this Week This week along with releasing the all new Wordfence Extension we had updates to the following Extensions: Advanced Uptime Monitor – Version 1.8.97 Added: Support for the Client Reports Extension (Client Reports update not released yet) Added: Additional plugin info Fixed: Fatal Error triggered by activating the extension WooCommerce Status – Version 0.0.2 Added: Support for the Client Reports extension (Client Reports update not released yet) Added: Redirection to the Extensions page after activating the extension Added: Additional Plugin info

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