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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 but I broke everything out as much as I could the actual process probably would take no more than 2-3 minutes from start to finish. Continue reading the post...

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, I read through all the comments and a good time was had by all! This was opened up because of a couple of different reasons. Continue reading the post...

Today we’re going to review how to speed up your MainWP Dashboard sync and update functions. Out of the box your MainWP Dashboard comes with default settings setup to not crash shared hosting or poorly setup servers.  However, through your Advanced Options you can speed up your MainWP Dashboard to match the power of your servers. To get started you need to go to your MainWP Dashboard then visit Settings and click on the Advanced Options tab. Once there you will see Continue reading the post...

Preface Over on the MainWP User group there was a few mentions on how well a small DigitalOcean Droplet performed with a large number of child sites.  I’ve never used a DigitalOcean droplet so decided to give it a test myself with the MainWP Dashboard on a Droplet and child sites on different non-DigitalOcean servers. Let me start this tutorial with one rather large caveat, if you are not someone who is familiar with servers you will need to read Continue reading the post...

W3 Total Cache is one of the more popular caching plugins with over 1 million active installs and there is a current report of high risk explot that has been disclosed: No update on W3 Total Cache SSRF reported over 4 months ago. Fix is basically adding 1 character #responsibledisclosure #wordpress #plugin — Klikki Oy (@klikkioy) September 23, 2016 I’m not a security expert so I’ll send you over to SecuPress for more information on the vulnerability so you can Continue reading the post...

Can I add MainWP Dashboard site as a Child Site? This is a question that I see in MainWP support almost every day and the answer is Yes! There are multiple reasons why you should do this, however, I will focus on one in this article. First, let me guide you through the process of connecting a dashboard to itself. Go to your Dashboard site Go to the WP > Plugins > Add New page Search for MainWP Child Plugin Install it Continue reading the post...

MainWP has partnered with BlogVault to bring you bulletproof incremental off-site backups for all your MainWP Child sites at an exclusive discount of 25% off their normal prices. All you need to do is install the free BlogVault Backup Extension and follow the directions to get started quickly and easily! Get the BlogVault Extension! Why is this an Extension? Why can’t you just give us the signup link? This is an Exclusive discount only for MainWP customers, That is why Continue reading the post...

Note: We heard that the DesktopServer is discontinuing soon. We are preparing a knowledge base article to help you run MainWP locally. We will keep you posted, stay tuned! We’ve had numerous support questions asking how to set up the MainWP Dashboard locally and in all honesty we would basically say, it is not something we would recommend you doing if you don’t already know how to set up a local server. The reason for that is that there are so Continue reading the post...

MainWP Plugin allows you to see available updates in two ways: Per Site Per Plugin (theme) On your main Dashboard page in the Right Now widget you can find the dropdown menu to select preferred view.   Continue reading the post...

I noticed another WordPress Management solution charges almost a $100 a year to use their two-factor authentication add-on however since MainWP is a WordPress Plugin you can add two-factor authentication to your MainWP Dashboard for free. In case you haven’t heard of it before, two-factor authentication is a security process in which the user provides two means of identification from separate categories of credentials. This post will go over two separate plugins that integrate WordPress and their two-factor authentication systems. Continue reading the post...