In creating these series of posts I am trying to make sure that developers and companies that want to integrate their services into MainWP have the tools at hand to easily work with a framework to create their final product. I want to ensure that you have the help you need to add your functionality and unique product or service to MainWP as a whole. In the previous posts we have covered how to create a basic WordPress plugin, connecting it to and turning that basic plugin into an extension inside of MainWP, then passing information to a child site in

MainWP has become an invaluable tool in my arsenal of weapons against compromised sites and people trying to compromise my clients. It helps me maintain and upgrade all of my client sites, as well as back them up on a daily basis. I store full server backups as well as individual site backups thanks to the set of tools I have available, and Amazon handles all of my backup needs, with MainWP as the facilitator. Without the remote backups extension, I can only imagine how expensive my server bill would be on a monthly basis – when adding 20GB a

This post is part of a tutorial on creating your own MainWP Extension 1. How to create a basic WordPress plugin 2. Turning that basic plugin into an MainWP Extension 3. Passing Information to the Child site 4. Extensions using Classes in MainWP 5. Monetizing your new Extension This is the third post in a series of posts (Post 1, Post 2) about creating a plugin that can be used as a MainWP Extension. Once we’re done this series of blog posts, you’ll have a working plugin recognized by WordPress that is also recognized by MainWP as an extension. It

This is Part 2 (part 1) in a series of blog posts surrounding WordPress Plugins, MainWP Extensions, and putting it all together in a useful way. Once we’re done this series of blog posts, you’ll have a working plugin recognized by WordPress that is also recognized by MainWP as an extension. It will be able to interact with your WordPress installation as well as your MainWP plugin. Look for Part 1 in the series here. This post is part of a tutorial on creating your own MainWP Extension 1. How to create a basic WordPress plugin 2. Turning that basic

I’m going to dive right into this blog post on creating a plugin for WordPress. There are countless tutorials out there and ways to code and structure a plugin, but for the purposes of these articles I’m going to make it short and simple. Once we’re done this series of blog posts, you’ll have a working plugin recognized by WordPress that is also recognized by MainWP as an extension. It will be able to interact with your WordPress installation as well as your MainWP plugin (which by the way does amazing things for client management, if you haven’t checked it