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Marc Benzakein

MainWP Partners with Post SMTP for Straightforward, Simple Email Management Across Your Child Sites

In today’s fast-paced digital world, managing communication across multiple WordPress sites can be a major task. The constant influx of emails, coupled with the need for reliable delivery, often leaves site owners in a bind. This challenge is magnified by the sheer number of plugins each WordPress site juggles. With that said, we’re excited to share some fantastic news that promises address this issue. MainWP is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Post SMTP, culminating in the launch of the MainWP Post SMTP Extension. This innovative solution is engineered to streamline your email configuration and management processes directly from

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Marc Benzakein

Effortless Email Management: Integrating Post SMTP with MainWP for Multiple-Site Control

If you’ve used WordPress, you’re likely familiar with its built-in email function, wp_mail. However, if you’ve managed multiple WordPress sites, you’re probably familiar with the fact that the wp_mail function is not reliable for sending emails. Fortunately, you can easily counter this issue by installing a WordPress SMTP plugin such as Post SMTP that lets you connect with all major third-party email service providers (like Gmail, Microsoft 365, Amazon SES, Sendgrid, etc.) for reliable email delivery. The benefits of using SMTP services to send email include:  Scalability & Reliability: Outsourcing email handling keeps your web server’s load minimal, which allows

A promotional banner for MainWP's Post SMTP Extension with the MainWP logo at the top left. The text 'Effortless 3rd Party Email Management' is in bold, large font across the banner. The slogan 'Integrating Post SMTP with MainWP for Multiple-Site Control' is displayed underneath in a smaller font. The background is adorned with a sketched illustration of various flying envelopes, symbolizing email communication.
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Marc Benzakein

Post SMTP: Your All-in-One WordPress SMTP Plugin

If you own a WordPress website, you know how important email communication is to your online success. Whether it’s order confirmations, password resets, or any other type of email, you want to make sure that your messages reach your recipients’ inboxes and not their spam folders. However, WordPress’s default mail functionality is unreliable, which often results in low deliverability rates, bounced emails, and spam complaints. In turn, this can hurt your reputation, your customer satisfaction, and your conversions. That’s why you need a better solution to send and manage your WordPress emails effectively. And that’s where the Post SMTP plugin

Privacy Washing
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Sebastian Moran

Unveiling the Facade: Understanding the Phenomenon of Privacy Washing

In an increasingly interconnected world where personal data has become a valuable commodity, concerns about privacy are more prevalent than ever. However, amidst the growing awareness of data protection, a deceptive practice has emerged – privacy washing. This article delves into the concept of privacy washing, exploring its meaning, common strategies, and the implications it has for individuals navigating the digital landscape.

Year in Review 2022
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Dennis Dornon

MainWP Year in Review 2022 – Client Management, 600k+ Sites, 98% Positive Support

Hello MainWP Managers; I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. Like 2021, 2022 was another exciting year with a focus on digital agencies, improvements in UI/UX, and partnerships aimed at helping you to organize your work better and efficiently. This is the time of the year I really enjoy reading year-in-review posts; they can be very inspiring, and writing my own review is a great way to reflect on the past year and prepare for the future. Let’s look at how much we helped our customers, but before diving in, I’d like to thank all our customers for trusting

MainWP Year in Review 2021
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Dennis Dornon

MainWP Year in Review 2021 | 500k+ Sites, 2k+ Reviews, 97% Positive Support

In 2020, many businesses struggled to survive, so many of us looked around and questions arose of what the world would be like in upcoming years. However, 2021 was also a tough year for businesses to accept the Digital-first reality. According to W3Techs, WordPress now powers more than 65% of the entire Content Management Market Share opening more opportunities for Developers, Freelancers, and Agencies to dive into website management and start offering Website Care Plans. We, at MainWP, are more than happy to help those by taking the hassle of managing hundreds of WordPress websites providing a FREE, open-source, self-hosted,

december roundup
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Todd Jones

December Roundup: Following the Doo the Woo train to the State of the Word

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 categories. On Thursday, December 2, I was invited to a roundtable discussion of the Year in Review for WordPress. Rob

Q&A with Birgit Pauli-Haack of Gutenberg Times
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Todd Jones

Q&A with Birgit Pauli-Haack of Gutenberg Times

When Gutenberg started being a story in the WordPress community, I went searching for resources. One that I found early on was Gutenberg Times (GT). I found out that the person who ran GT was Birgit Pauli-Haack, and over time I struck up a conversation with her via Twitter DMs. She was very nice and very accommodating for any questions I had. Over time I have found her to be a rock in the WordPress space with lots of expertise, credibility, and a great human being. Today, I have the honor of publishing a Q&A article with Birgit asking questions

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Sebastian Moran

How to use Perfect Checkout on your WooCommerce Store

Improving your site’s checkout to improve the experience for customers can be a complex ordeal. One of the newest options to improve your WooCommerce store’s checkout experience is using Perfect Checkout. Perfect Checkout uses headless technology to replace the store’s standard checkout page that uses WooCommerce with an improved version. You can test out a demo of the Perfect Checkout experience. Perfect Checkout includes a number of features including; Completely responsive (pixel perfect on all browsers/devices) Automatically save user details for the next visit Modify order without leaving the page Field Validation (checks valid email/phone) Address auto suggest and validation

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Sebastian Moran

Using the GuardGiant plugin to protect from brute-force attacks

Protecting your site from brute-force attacks, limiting login attempts, limit login errors from showing can be a pain to deal with on your child sites. There is a very recent plugin called GuardGiant which handles a whole number of those security features all in one easy to use plugin. After you have installed and activated the GuardGiant plugin it will add a new admin menu; GuardGiant > Settings GuardGiant > Whitelists GuardGiant > Captcha In the captcha settings of the GuardGiant plugin, it will use either the v2 or the v3 versions of Google reCAPTCHA. GuardGiant > General Settings GuardGiant

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