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Product Updates MainWP 6.4 Introduces Built-In Backups The biggest release of the week is MainWP Dashboard 6.4, introducing Built-In Backups (beta), a new way to back up and restore WordPress sites directly from MainWP without installing an additional backup plugin. Built-In Backups supports scheduled full, database-only, files-only, and incremental backups, with storage options including local storage, S3-compatible services, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox, and SFTP. It also introduces snapshot restores, optional safety backups and rollback, encryption, flexible retention policies, and backup Continue reading the post...

There is no shortage of companies offering to bring in 10 new sales leads per month, send email marketing to individuals, send sales emails on your behalf, or cold call prospects on your behalf to get them to purchase your products or services. While these services may sound great from a business perspective (who wouldn’t want more sales?), they may also be opening up a can of worms from a compliance perspective and could put your business at risk of Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week brought a major step forward for MainWP 6.4: three Release Candidate builds for MainWP Dashboard, two for MainWP Child, and an important update to Team Control. The biggest addition is Built-In Backups (beta), bringing backup scheduling, offsite storage, and site restoration directly into MainWP without requiring a separate backup plugin. The Release Candidate builds also include improvements to backup reliability, site connectivity, permissions, and everyday Dashboard workflows. Meanwhile, Team Control 5.2 introduces significant changes to how Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week’s MainWP releases focus on expanding AI-powered site management, improving security, and making everyday WordPress maintenance more reliable. MainWP Core MainWP Dashboard 6.3 MainWP Dashboard 6.3 introduces Knowledge, a central place for storing agency, client, and site information that connected AI tools can access based on user permissions. New guided setup pages simplify connecting Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code through MainWP MCP. AI-assisted updates now support previews and confirmation before execution, while improvements to Team Control Continue reading the post...

MainWP 6.3 is Now Available! MainWP 6.3 takes WordPress management a step further with smarter AI integration, enhanced management capabilities, and improved update management over your connected sites. This release brings agency knowledge and AI-powered tools closer together, making it easier than ever to manage, automate, and scale your WordPress operations. All from one central dashboard! Continue reading the post...

AI can already answer questions about WordPress. Giving it access to manage your sites is the easy part. The harder part is making sure it understands how your agency wants those sites managed. Which updates should be avoided? Are there special instructions for a particular client? Does one site have a maintenance requirement that doesn’t apply anywhere else? And before an AI tool makes a change across several sites, can you see exactly what it intends to do? Those are Continue reading the post...

We have released an important security update for MainWP Child that affects its Clone/Restore functionality. The issue was responsibly reported by Rafie Muhammad⁠ through MainWP’s security program on Patchstack. We thank them for following responsible disclosure practices. At the time of publication, we are not aware of any active exploitation of this vulnerability. What Was the Issue? During a Clone/Restore operation, MainWP Child processes stored database values so site URLs can be updated correctly. Under specific conditions, specially crafted content Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week’s core releases focused on more reliable monitoring, clearer update reporting, and fewer inconsistencies between the MainWP Dashboard and connected Child sites. MainWP Core MainWP Dashboard 6.2.1 MainWP Dashboard 6.2.1 improves uptime monitoring across the site lifecycle. Enabling monitoring globally now restores affected monitors, missing primary monitors are repaired automatically, and removing a website also clears its related monitoring data. Dashboard 6.2.1 also provides clearer plugin, theme, and translation upgrade status reporting, along with more consistent update Continue reading the post...

Since the release and popularization of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, it seems like there is almost an unlimited number of ways in which people will use them. From finding ideas for recipes, to writing emails, to summarizing medical records, to writing a breakup text, the possibilities are endless. A new use that is being explored and rolled out is AI-powered shopping. For example, a consumer could tell an AI “I live in Chicago and I need a Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week’s add-on updates focused on safer cache management, clearer Google Search Console workflows, and better control over custom code. The result is more reliable maintenance with fewer surprises across your connected sites. MainWP Add-on Updates Cache Control Integration 5.3 Cache Control Integration 5.3 improves bulk cache purging with stronger authorization, site validation, separate per-site results, and retry options when outcomes are mixed or unsuccessful. Cloudflare credential handling is also safer during encrypted-storage migrations and failed save or Continue reading the post...