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MainWP Boilerplate Extension allows you to use tokens in your Boilerplate pages and posts. Simply add your token in the title field and the correct value will be set on your child sites. Combination of tokens and custom text will enable you to have custom page title on each of your child sites.       Continue reading the post...

You can use the Test Connection tab to see what response the Main plugin is receiving from a site. Test Connection 1. Go to Sites from the MainWP Dashboard menu, 2. Click the Test Connection tab, 3. Enter your sites URL, 4. Click Test Connection. The test will then tell you success or failure and the response received from the server. Continue reading the post...

The MainWP WooCommerce Shortcuts Extension adds a useful widget to your child sites individual dashboards. The widget contains a set of links which will bring you directly to WooCommerce pages on your child site without logging into the site. [box] MainWP WooCommerce Shortcuts Extension requires the WooCommerce plugin installed on your child sites. [/box] If you don’t have the WooCommerce plugin installed on the child site, links won’t be available and the widget will display the notification for you. Continue reading the post...

Bulk Actions dropdown provides you ability to Delete one or more child sites. To use the feature, select wanted child sites by checking the checkbox next to the child site, select the Delete action in dropdown menu and click the Apply button: Continue reading the post...

MainWP WooCommerce Status extension provides you ability to see the WooCommerce status right from the MainWP Dashboard site. It enables you to monitor all your stores from one place. WooCommerce Status Dashboard On this page (MainWP > Extensions > MainWP WooCommerce Status Extension) you can see all your child sites with the WooCommerce plugin installed. Here you can see for each child site: Income for the current month Top Seller product for the current month Number of orders awaiting for the Continue reading the post...

With the WordPress SEO extension, you can publish your Posts and Pages with your custom SEO settings. The SEO metabox from the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin will be added to the MainWP > Posts/Pages > Add New page: If you want to apply the custom SEO settings for the post/page 1. Enter your custom values in the metabox fields 2. Before publishing the content, click the Set the SEO Values button:     3. Click the Publish button.   [box] In Continue reading the post...

The Wordfence extension enables you to trigger scanning process on child sites directly from your dashboard. To do this go to: Wordfence Dashboard page (MainWP > Extensions > MainWP Wordfence Extension ). In the upper part of the page, you will be able to find the Start a Wordfence Scan button: This button will start a scan process on all child sites. Continue reading the post...

If you want to use your extension as a primary Backup feature, go to the MainWP > Settings page. In the Backup Options box, locate the Select Primary Backup System option, and from the dropdown, select the MainWP BackUpWordPress Extension: Setting the BackUpWordPress as a primary backup option as primary will make some changes to you dashboard. The Backup Now link in the Manage Sites page will be replaced with the extension’s Backup Now link. The Schedule Backup link in the Continue reading the post...

MainWP BackUpWordPress Extension allows you to set exact start time for scheduled backups. To schedule backups go to the Extension Settings page, and locate the Add Schedule tab: 1. Select Backup Type (Database and Files, Files Only, Database Only) 2. Select Schedule (Manually, Once Hourly, Twice Daily, Once Daily, Once Weekly, Once Biweekly, Once Monthly) 3. Set Start Time 4. Set Number of Backups to Store 5. Set Email Address (where do you want to receive your backup file) 6. Click Continue reading the post...

MainWP Boilerplate Extension allows you to create, edit and share repetitive pages across your network of child sites. The available placeholders allow these pages to be customized for each site without needing to be rewritten. The Boilerplate extension is the perfect solution for commonly repeated pages such as your “Privacy Policy”, “About Us”, “Terms of Use”, “Support Policy”, or any other page or post with standard text that needs to be distributed across your network. The extension comes with five Continue reading the post...