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Last week’s MainWP updates focused on maintenance improvements across Core, with larger workflow updates for the Custom Dashboard and Pressable Integration extensions. Product Updates MainWP Dashboard and MainWP Child received reliability updates for logging, permissions, authentication handling, and update checks. Custom Dashboard and Pressable Integration brought more visible improvements for snippet editing, Pressable site mapping, credential handling, and cleaner admin workflows. MainWP Core MainWP Dashboard 6.1.1 MainWP Dashboard 6.1.1 is a focused maintenance release that improves log processing, directory permission Continue reading the post...

This week’s MainWP updates focus on practical improvements that make WordPress site management smoother, including stronger credential handling, cleaner activity logs, better cache control, more reliable reporting, and fewer background task issues. MainWP Dashboard 6.1 and MainWP Child 6.1 lead this week’s releases, while several extension and documentation updates deliver practical improvements for agencies and site care teams managing WordPress sites at scale. Product Updates The week of May 25th brought a full set of MainWP updates, led by the Continue reading the post...

If you manage WordPress websites for clients, you’ve probably run into the same problem over and over again. You spend time maintaining sites, applying updates, monitoring security, fixing compatibility issues, and keeping everything running smoothly… but when the client sees their monthly report, all they see is: “WooCommerce updated from 10.4.3 to 10.5.3.” That doesn’t tell the full story. It doesn’t explain the security vulnerabilities that were patched, the performance improvements that were introduced, or the new features that are Continue reading the post...

This week’s updates are all about making MainWP more dependable behind the scenes and easier to manage day to day. From cleaner activity logs and better permission controls to stronger recovery handling across add-ons, these changes focus on the small details that make a big difference when managing WordPress sites at scale. Product Updates Last week’s updates focused on MainWP 6.1 Early Release builds, cleaner activity logs, improved permission handling, and more reliable add-on workflows. The practical result: better oversight, Continue reading the post...

This month, not only are we celebrating 12 years of MainWP, but we’re also celebrating yet another partnership. This time, it’s Patchstack. You may already be familiar with Patchstack, but if not, they focus on vulnerability mitigation for WordPress websites. They are the largest WordPress vulnerability discloser and work with over 1,100 plugins as security partners. What that means in practical terms is simple. Patchstack helps protect your sites by mitigating vulnerabilities before they’re actively exploited. The Webinar Last week, Continue reading the post...

I know it has happened to you before. You are updating your websites and that plugin causes a problem. Again. How many times has that happened? Maybe you are having some kind of conflict. It happens more than we want to think. Every week, you are taking care of your customer’s websites and something always seems to happen. You think to yourself, “I wish I had a staging site set up to test some of these plugin updates.” Never fear Continue reading the post...

Wordfence is a commonly used plugin for site security that has a free version and a premium version. Wordfence includes a number of constants that can be added to the site’s wp-config.php file to turn off specific features and change some of the defaults. MainWP has an easy-to-use code snippets plugin that will allow you to save these constants to any of the connected child sites into the child sites wp-config.php file. The Wordfence scan results page will show up Continue reading the post...

If you have a child site which has post content and comments enabled, it is a fact of life that you will inevitably deal with spam comments. Luckily, there are a number of ways to deal with spam. Some of the plugin options include Akismet and  Antispam Bee. Antispam Bee Antispam Bee will add a setting section under Settings > Antispam Bee You can find more information about Antispam Bee on their docs. There is a bulk setting key for Continue reading the post...

With the breaking changes for WooCommerce if running versions earlier than 3.5.x due to WordPress 5.x release, now is the time to create a staging site. A staging site can be used to test the active theme updates, the WooCommerce-related plugins, and the WooCommerce plugin. Creating a staging site allows you to test plugin updates without having to cause issues on the live child site. In the case of child sites using WooCommerce for e-commerce, this can mean a live Continue reading the post...

Code snippet is a small block of code which can be used to alter or make a change to a plugin function or to extend a plugin. For example, I would like additional fields to show for a customer on checkout, and I am using WooCommerce on a site. WordPress can be modified and improved in a number of ways by using code snippets on your connected child sites. The MainWP Code Snippets Extension for your MainWP Dashboard site is Continue reading the post...