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Congratulations! You just launched your client’s website and is a great looking project. You are showcasing it to your developer friends and sharing it in your Slack community. You also begin making plans to add it to the portfolio on your website. All systems go. But wait! Before you do all that, are you sure your client is ready to take the keys and drive this new car? Remember the first time you got a car? Remember how it felt? Continue reading the post...

This feature has been retied since version 4.1 The MainWP Maintenance Extension allows you to get notification  each time somebody hits the page that doesn’t exist on your sites. To do that: Go to MainWP > Extensions > MainWP Maintenance Extension and on 404 Email Alerts tab set Enable Notifications button to YES, Enter an email address for receiving notifications, Select child sites, Click the Save Settings button. Continue reading the post...

The MainWP File Uploader Extension allows you to upload files to your child sites from one centralized location. It gives you ability to upload multiple files to all of your child sites at the same time. To do that go to: MainWP > Extensions >  MainWP File Uploader Extension tab and click Choose File button: When you locate the file on your computer enter a path where you want to upload your file(s): In the first part of the path you have 4 options Continue reading the post...

If you want to rebrand your child plugin to reflect your brand and service the MainWP Branding Extension allows you to do that. It allows you to alter the Plugin Name, Description, Author and Author URL for the MainWP Child plugin, you can do that with the MainWP Child Plugin Branding Extension. To do that go to: MainWP > Extensions > Branding > Branding Options options box and enter a new Plugin Name, Plugin Description, Plugin URL, Plugin Author and Author URL: Continue reading the post...

The MainWP Sucuri Extension provides you the ability to set email notification reminders so there will never be an instance when you forget to scan your child sites. You will need to set the reminders frequency for each of your child sites individually. To do this locate the child site in the Manage Sites list, click the Security Scan link: After the Security Scan Page loads, use the provided drop-down list to set the time interval: Your selection will be Continue reading the post...

When you are adding monitor to your child sites, the Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension enables you to choose which Monitor Type you want. Here are short details about monitor types: http(s): that’s perfect for website monitoring. The service regularly sends requests (which are the same as if a visitor is browsing your website) to the URL and decides if it is up or down depending on the HTTP statuses returned from the website (200-success, 404-not found, etc.) ping: this is good Continue reading the post...

MainWP Sucuri Extension provides web-based malware scanning of your web sites using the latest in fingerprinting technology allowing you to determine if your web applications are out of date, exploited with malware, or even blacklisted by popular search engines. To Scan your child site, 1. Go to the MainWP Dashboard > Sites > Manage tab, 2. Locate the child site you want to scan, 3. In the URL column, under the site URL, locate the Security Scan link and click Continue reading the post...

If you want to add your child sites to Advanced Uptime Monitor extension go to MainWP > Extensions > Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension settings page. In the Advanced Uptime Monitor options box click the Add Monitor button: And pop-up window will appear: When you click Load Child Sites check box, in dropdown menu you will get a list of your child sites: Select wanted child site, select Monitor notification, Monitor type and click the CREATE button. Your child site will Continue reading the post...

On the Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension settings page, you have the option to Pause your Monitors for wanted sites: When your Monitor is paused the Status Monitor will become black. To Start again paused monitors just click Start icon: [box] If you want to Pause or Start multiple Monitor at once select wanted sites and use provided bulk action. [/box] Continue reading the post...

If you want your Advanced Uptime Monitor widget to show only certain Child Sites, use the Display/Hide on Dashboard bulk actions in dropdown menu. If you choose Display on Dashboard, select wanted sites and click Apply button your sites will appear in the Advanced Uptime Monitor widget: If you want to hide certain Child Sites chose Hide on Dashboard option in bulk actions dropdown menu, select wanted sites and click Apply button: Continue reading the post...