MainWP Blog - Important Updates

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...

Product Updates Last week’s add-on releases focus on more reliable security monitoring, backups, and day-to-day site management. The updates improve data accuracy, reduce unnecessary processing, and make larger MainWP Dashboards easier to review. MainWP Add-on Virusdie Integration 5.1 Virusdie Integration 5.1 improves scan synchronization and report accuracy, with corrected Dashboard columns, clearer firewall and autocleanup indicators, and consistent file-size formatting. Connection handling, manual scan validation, account entitlement checks, and database updates are also more reliable. Stronger input validation keeps sensitive Continue reading the post...

Product Updates MainWP 6.2 brings better system monitoring, broader remote management capabilities, and more predictable API workflows. The updates give agencies clearer oversight of their connected sites while reducing friction during routine maintenance. MainWP Dashboard 6.2 MainWP Dashboard 6.2 adds a new Database section to Server Information, bringing database version, size, prefix, privilege status, and table health into one view. Database size notices now include clearer spacing and context on the Operations and Client Overview pages. A new System Monitor Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week’s MainWP updates focused on more reliable monitoring, more accurate reporting data, and better control over maintenance tasks across larger groups of sites. Domain Monitor and Advanced Uptime Monitor received substantial reliability improvements, while Cache Control adds new options for managing how bulk cache purges are processed. Google Analytics also picked up fixes to keep reporting periods and refresh operations working as expected. MainWP Add-ons Domain Monitor 5.4 Domain Monitor 5.4 improves both the accuracy and reliability Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week’s MainWP updates focused on more accurate monitoring, clearer Network Activity records, broader backup support, and more predictable site management. MainWP Dashboard 6.1.8 adds cache bypass controls for Uptime Monitoring and support for the Cloudways REST API v2. MainWP Child 6.1.8 improves BackWPup management, Network Activity tracking, Clone session security, and System Report controls. MainWP Dashboard 6.1.8 MainWP Dashboard 6.1.8 adds the option to bypass cache during Uptime Monitoring checks. The setting can be configured globally or Continue reading the post...

Product Updates This round of updates focuses on making Domain and SSL Monitoring more automatic and dependable. Both add-ons now do a better job of keeping their monitored site lists in sync as you add new sites, reducing the amount of manual housekeeping needed as your MainWP Dashboard grows. MainWP Add-ons Domain Monitor 5.3 Domain Monitor 5.3 improves how domain checks are scheduled and managed. Newly connected sites are now added to domain monitoring automatically, while monitored site lists are Continue reading the post...

Here is what connecting your MainWP Dashboard to an AI assistant looks like now: Install the MainWP MCP Server, open a chat, and say, “Set up my MainWP connection.” The assistant asks for your Dashboard URL, WordPress username, and Application Password, checks the credentials against your Dashboard, and saves them. Your MainWP tools appear, and your next question can be as simple as: “Which sites have updates waiting?” There is no configuration file to edit during initial setup and, in Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week’s releases improve performance across busy MainWP Dashboards, strengthen site connections, and add more control over Wordfence and SSL monitoring. MainWP Core MainWP Dashboard 6.1.5 MainWP Dashboard 6.1.5 focuses on faster loading and more dependable site connections. The Network Activity widget now limits its overview to the most recent 24 hours, reducing the data processed during routine Dashboard loading. The Updates Overview widget has also been optimized to load summary totals separately from detailed site and update Continue reading the post...