First, you will need to install the Bulk Settings Manager extension on your MainWP Dashboard site. If you are not sure how to do that, here are some helpful documents: Order MainWP Extensions Install MainWP Extensions Activate MainWP Extensions MainWP Bulk Settings Manager Extension MainWP Key Maker Something you may be asking is, now that you…
SendGrid offers a free plan which provides 40,000 emails a month, which should be more than enough for most MainWP dashboard sites. Using a transactional email provider like SendGrid, SparkPost or SendinBlue. SendGrid free plan Go to https://signup.sendgrid.com/ After you have signed up for a free plan you will be in the main app. On…
Cloudways is a solid option to use for WordPress site hosting. In this example, we are going to use it for hosting a MainWP dashboard site. You do want to use a separate server for hosting your MainWP dashboard site, so that the server or servers you are using for your client/customer sites do not…
WordPress 4.9.8 release, scheduled for July 31, 2018, will include a banner inviting website owners to try the new Gutenberg editing experience. This banner shows for all users with the back end access and each user needs to dismiss it individually. Hiding this banner on multiple sites can take you some time, however, MainWP Code Snippets…
If you read my post, Installing your MainWP Dashboard on a DigitalOcean Droplet, you will notice 2 things, I am NOT a server admin and setting up a Digital Ocean for MainWP could be a pain in the neck. I’ve been constantly intrigued by cloud hosting and when I wrote the DigitalOcean post back in…
Ever wondered how you can build a self-contained WordPress maintenance machine to add an additional revenue stream? WooCommerce combined with MainWP can be used to complete the loop of a self-contained WordPress maintenance business with the help of WooCommerce’s Subscriptions plugin. Here at MainWP, we provide the goods to help website developers build a…
Most of the time when I developed websites for my customers, I was the first person the company or organization used to build a website. Therefore, I missed on some key elements. Content is one of those elements. I learned. The client didn’t know what he or she should be gathering. I thought, and they did…
The protege sat with the master copywriter and asked him the question that would solve all her problems. “Master,” she said, “what is the secret to engaging content? What can I do to make my content be more receptive?” With this, the master thought, slowly taking a sip of his tea and pondered. He leaned…
I decided to create this brief tutorial on using the Bulk Settings Manager to update your Permalinks when I received a support ticket from a user who needed a way to updated them on 200 of his WordPress sites. Required Extension: Bulk Settings Manager Required Plugin: MainWP Key Maker Note: These 13 steps may seem long…
So, over at the MainWP Facebook Group page (you are a member, right?), Luke Cavanagh brought up the issue of privacy in connection to the WordPress API. It seems there is a trac ticket, #16778, that has been submitted for six years over at the Core Trac at WordPress. For a couple of hours yesterday,…
