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Recently, WP Scan disclosed the vulnerability in the current version (1.11.8) of the Broken Link Checker plugin. As per WP Scan: “The plugin is still affected and won’t be fixed according to the original advisory”. Since the fix is not expected, we strongly recommend removing the plugin for your WordPress sites and finding an alternative. Here is how you can easily remove the plugin from your sites from your MainWP Dashboard: Go to the MainWP > Plugins > Manage Plugins Continue reading the post...

Easy access of the menu items on the MainWP Dashboard site would normally be from wp-admin, via the MainWP Dashboard menu. But there are other options if you wanted to be able to have quick access from the admin toolbar. To access MainWP Dashboard menu items on your dashboard site, you will need to install the Toolbar Extras, and the Toolbar Extras for MainWP on your dashboard site. Once those two plugins have been installed, there will be a new Continue reading the post...

In version 5.2 of WordPress, the site health check was added. It allows users to gain information about possible issues, and how to create a debug set of information. In a number of cases, you may want to remove the site health check page from being accessible on a child site, to ensure clients do not have to deal with being misled about issues. It is possible to remove the Site Health check page in wp-admin from showing on a Continue reading the post...

Google Assistant is the new Mr. Belvedere of online services and can be used on everything from phones, speakers, smart displays, cars, TVs, laptops & tablets, and wearables. If you want to do more things without having to type or write each time, Google Assistant has you covered. Here are some of the many things that you can ask Google Assistant, in no particular order: Tell me about my day what’s on my calendar for ____(month/day) give me a mindfulness Continue reading the post...

Cloudflare is among the most solid CDNs out there and has a considerable amount of data centers. To utilize Cloudflare for your child site, you first need to change the domain’s DNS name servers to use the Cloudflare name servers. Now that your child site is using the Cloudflare name servers (which you can check from DNS Checker), the next step is to set DNS and enter the site domain. Cloudflare will show orange arrows for the domain in DNS, Continue reading the post...

With company sites needing to have a more global outreach, there is a number of translation plugins for your Child Sites to ensure your sites will be multi-language. The most commonly known of the translation plugins is WPML. In this post, we are going to cover a number of solid options which will not cause performance issues on your site due to how they work. Weglot Weglot is an easy-to-use plugin with an API, which you can set up on Continue reading the post...

Well, February 14th is Valentine’s Day. Have you gotten your special someone a gift? Maybe you bought him or her chocolate or flowers. I remember as a kid that we had these “parties” where we decorated a shoebox to make a little postbox. Then we would go to the store and buy these little Valentine cards that we would give to our classmates. Maybe your office will exchange Valentine Cards and chocolate. In spite of what some of you may Continue reading the post...

Are you ready for 2019, to make it a successful year? For some time now, digital marketer Chris Brogan has used a simple framework to help make his years more successful. Brogan uses three words to help make his new year a great year. As he says here, “I started this process back in 2006. Back then, my 3 words were “Ask. Do. Share.” I picked these very simple words and they served me very well. One of my best Continue reading the post...

Back in July, with Phase 1, the WP Activity Log plugin became the first activity logger to keep track of changes made by your MainWP Dashboard on Child sites. The only issue was you still had to visit your Child site to see the logs. That changes today with the release of Phase 2, Activity Log for MainWP! The first major MainWP Extension created by an outside developer, this free Extension allows you to review all your child site activity Continue reading the post...

This is one of our proudest days! It’s been less than a month since we celebrated our third anniversary on Wordpress.org and today we are celebrating 1000 5 star reviews on WordPress.org! To put that in perspective: Jetpack has 869 5 star reviews Akismet has 650 5 star reviews All in One SEO Pack has 395 5 star reviews Contact Form 7 has 1,037 5 star reviews (we’ll catch them 😉 ) All those plugins have over 3 million active Continue reading the post...