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By default updates in the MainWP Dashboard appear in a per plugin view. This means that if you list all your available updates in the right now widget the list will show all your plugins with available updates. You can switch this view and show the updates per site if you prefer. To do this , go to the MainWP > Settings > Global options tab, locked the Upgrade options box and set the View upgrades per site to YES: Continue reading the post...

Today we are proud to announce a new much, needed feature! With the latest MainWP  Dashboard version (1.8), and MainWP Child 0.10 we have implemented WordPresses localization feature. Our goal is to make the MainWP plugin more accessible to non-English speakers and with this adjustment it is now possible and quite easy to translate the MainWP plugin into any language. This means if you prefer to work with your native language, and you use your local WordPress version the MainWP Continue reading the post...

WordPress powers approximately 17% of all the websites online around the world. This means that it is a very attractive platform for hackers to try and compromise as it gives them the ability to take down or control many websites with just a single exploit. How do WordPress sites get hacked? A recent study has shown that WordPress Blogs get hacked for the following reason. 41% of WordPress sites are hacked due to insecure hosting (research your potential host before Continue reading the post...

Keeping WordPress core, plugins and themes up to date is the best way to make your sites safe and secure, but what happens when life gets busy and you just don’t have enough time to worry about updates.  What if you are on vacation and you don’t have a partner with the technical experience or know how to run those updates? Are you willing to risk your sites or your client’s sites safety? Not to worry, you don’t have to! Continue reading the post...

Building an affiliate network is a marketing method in which the network owner gets paid for referring potential customers to a specific product. Payment method can be PPC (pay-per-click) where network owner gets paid every time a visitor clicks on one of the advertising links or a Commission-Based payment system where the owner is paid on actual conversions. In this article we are going to go over four steps which will show you the quickest way to set up an affiliate network: Continue reading the post...

MainWP provides you the only tool needed to easily clone your WP Template sites in order to grow your network. MainWP is much more than a cloning tool but we are certain that it is the fastest, easiest and the most user friendly cloning process on the market today, so simple a child could use it. With the MainWP cloning feature, you will create an exact copy of the site configuration,  themes, themes settings, plugins, plugin settings, posts, pages, images, videos…pretty much everything Continue reading the post...