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How to Disable Automatic Plugin and Theme Updates on your Child Sites

WordPress 5.5 introduced a new automated update feature for plugins and themes. If you are already using MainWP to professionally handle plugin and theme updates for your client sites, then we suggest limiting your clients ability from setting plugins or themes to be automatically updated. Your clients hired you to update and test plugins before being updated and letting them set updates automatically defeats that purpose. If you need examples of why automatic plugin and theme updates are not a good idea then you only need to look at the breaking changes in the recent WooCommerce 4.0 release or the

Sebastian Moran May 7, 2020 1 Comment

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Using NitroPack to Optimize Your Child Site Performance

NitroPack is a service with an integration plugin for WordPress which will improve your site’s load times. NitroPack has a number of pricing plans you can start with a free plan which includes up to 500MB of resources storage and up to 200 page optimizations per month. If you go up a plan to the $19 per month priced plan it includes 1GB of resources storage and up to 20,000 page optimizations per month. After you have installed and activated the NitroPack plugin on your child site it will add a sub-menu settings item; Settings > NitroPack In order to

Sebastian Moran May 4, 2020 No Comments

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Using the Sparkle plugin for Easy Post Revision and Spam Comment Cleanup

Being able to easily delete auto-draft posts, post revisions, spam comments, trashed comments can be a pain to be able to remove that bloat out of your child sites database. There is a very simple plugin that can easily help in deleting that bloat out of your database and it is called Sparkle. After you have installed and activated the Sparkle plugin it will add a sub-menu item into the Settings menu in wp-admin; Settings > Sparkle The setting page for Sparkle will show how many auto-draft posts, draft posts, spam comments, and trashed comments that are in the sites

Sebastian Moran April 28, 2020 1 Comment

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Using the Powered Cache plugin to Improve your Child Sites Load Times

Powered Cache is an easy to use plugin which contains a number of useful features in the free version and includes a number of extensions in the premium version of the plugin. After you have installed and activated the plugin on your child site it will add a new admin menu on your site named; Powered Cache In order to have page caching work using the Powered Cache plugin, you will need to go into the basic options settings and then enable it. You can set if you want Gzip compression to be enabled in the sites .htaccess file as

Sebastian Moran April 23, 2020 No Comments

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Using Abraia to Easily Optimize Site Images

There is a new image optimization service called Abraia. The service will be able to process JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, and WebP image files. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new menu item under; Settings > Abraia In order to be able to use the Abraia service, you will need to create a new account and then copy the API key into the plugins settings. You can set to have images automatically optimized on upload. After you have added the API key into the setting now you can go to bulk optimize images that

Sebastian Moran April 21, 2020 No Comments

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Using the AutomatorWP Plugin on your Child Sites

There is a new plugin called AutomatorWP which makes it easy to be able to connect plugins together to create automation workflows. The main AutomatorWP plugin has a free version that currently supports WooCommerce, BuddyPress, GamiPress and LearnDash plugins. After you have installed the main AutomatorWP plugin and any of the required add-on plugins you will need to create your first automation using any of the available triggers. AutomatorWP You can start adding automations using the provided triggers and actions on your child sites. Using the supported triggers and actions you can now easily put together any number of automations.

Sebastian Moran April 6, 2020 6 Comments

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How to Use the WP 2FA Plugin on your Child Sites

Keeping your child sites secure is always worth taking the time to setup now more than ever. There is a new easy-to-use plugin for 2FA (two-factor authentication), and it is called WP 2FA. The plugin is from the same developers as WP Security Audit Log. After you have installed and activated the WP 2FA plugin on your child site, you can quickly go through the setup wizard. The recommended method will be to use the Google Authenticator application available for iOS and Android. The setup wizard will guide you through the QR code to scan in the Google Authenticator application,

Sebastian Moran March 30, 2020 No Comments

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How to use the WP Project Manager Plugin

If you need a simple self-hosted project management plugin for being able to deal with client projects a solid option is to use the WP Project Manager plugin. After you have installed and activated the plugin on your site it will add a new admin menu; Project Manager The first thing you will need to do is create a project once you have created a project you can add tasks, milestones, and even discussions. One of the free integrations is with Trello. Where you can import projects, task lists, subtasks, and even users into WP Project Manager. In the settings

Sebastian Moran March 23, 2020 4 Comments

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Why You Should Wait to Update to WooCommerce 4.0

WooCommerce 4.0 was released on the 10th March. It is a major new release and the two major changes are the merging of the WooCommerce Admin and updating the Action Scheduler to version 3.1. The WooCommerce Admin has existed as a featured plugin since April 2019. The WooCommerce Admin uses code now in WordPress 5.3 to be able to use React for powering some of the UI elements. The WooCommerce Admin uses a number of custom database tables in order to store the analytics data in those lookup tables in order to improve the reporting that is included in WooCommerce.

Sebastian Moran March 16, 2020 2 Comments

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Using Statically CDN for Performance Gains

If you are looking for a free solid CDN option for your child sites then one of the best options out there is Statically. Statically is powered by Fastly, Cloudflare, BunnyCDN, CDN77 which means it has a higher number of PoPs that will be serving the site assets. Statically now has a plugin for WordPress which is very easy to setup. After you have installed and activated the Statically plugin you will need to go ahead and add your email address, site URL and then you will be able to generate an API key for the plugin. The plugin settings

Sebastian Moran February 27, 2020 No Comments

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How to Disable Automatic Plugin and Theme Updates on your Child Sites

Using NitroPack to Optimize Your Child Site Performance

Using the Sparkle plugin for Easy Post Revision and Spam Comment Cleanup

Using the Powered Cache plugin to Improve your Child Sites Load Times

Using Abraia to Easily Optimize Site Images

Using the AutomatorWP Plugin on your Child Sites

How to Use the WP 2FA Plugin on your Child Sites

How to use the WP Project Manager Plugin

Why You Should Wait to Update to WooCommerce 4.0

Using Statically CDN for Performance Gains

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