MainWP Blog - Tips & Tricks

Hosting sites can always be hard in knowing which host to use and then how well that host manager or control panel will work. RunCloud is a control panel that you can use on your own servers it works with Vultr, Digital Ocean, UpCloud and Linode to name a few. RunCloud also gives you easy control over your own servers. In this case, we would recommend using RunCloud with Vultr. Unlike say Cloudways where the Vultr server is wrapped into Continue reading the post...

If you need to log site emails but require more control over what data is being logged and how long that data is being stored, WP Mail Logging is a solid plugin that can be installed. After you have installed and activated the plugin, it will add a new admin menu called; WP Mail Logging To view logged email, you can view those from; WP Mail Logging > WP Mail Logging The plugin setting can be found from; WP Mail Continue reading the post...

To update the MainWP Child plugin, there are 2 simple methods: Stanard update method Update by overwriting the old version Stanard update method Once the MainWP Child plugin version is available, and after syncing your sites, the update will be available on the MainWP Updates page. To perform the update, follow these steps: Go to your MainWP Dashboard Go to the MainWP > Updates page Set the Show per updates option to per Plugin/Theme Locate the MainWP Child plugin in Continue reading the post...

There is a new WordPress plugin for site security and it is called WT Security. After the plugin has been installed and activated it will add a new admin menu called; WP Security To be able to use the security plugin you will need to create an account on the Webtotem site. After you have confirmed your account from the email link, now you can log into the site and add your site that you want to protect. After you Continue reading the post...

While trying new plugins can unearth hidden gems in the WooCommerce world, there are certain plugins that are better to stay away from. One such plugin is Follow Up Emails. The plugin sends follow up emails based on different triggers (e.g., if a customer purchased a specific product, a customer created a new subscription to a product or plan, and so on). The custom database tables created by the plugin are as follows; wp_followup_coupons wp_followup_coupon_logs wp_followup_customers wp_followup_customer_carts wp_followup_customer_notes wp_followup_customer_orders wp_followup_email_excludes Continue reading the post...

Spam site registrations or spam form submissions can be blocked by being able to detect and block emails from being used on your child site. There is a new plugin called Ultimate Email Validator. After the plugin has been installed and activated on the site it will add a new admin menu called; Ultimate Email Validator The plugin includes support for the following popular plugins BuddyPress, WooCommerce, MailChimp, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms and Ninja Forms. As well as support Continue reading the post...

It is worth knowing how to rollback plugins or themes on a site, due to either the current version of the plugin having a bug or a current version of a plugin causing a conflict with another active plugin. The plugin which allows you to easily rollback a plugin is WP Rollback. After you have installed and activated the plugin in the plugin list, in wp-admin next to deactivate Rollback will show. When you select rollback next to the plugin Continue reading the post...

Being able to view the analytics of who is visiting a site and how long they are on the site and what they are looking at is very useful to know, but using certain WordPress plugins to store analytics and statistical data in your site database is a bad idea, since it will bloat your sites database as well as cause CPU usage issues. A plugin which has over 500,000+ active installs is WP Statistics, the plugin seems to have Continue reading the post...

Wordfence is well known and heavily used site security plugin but there may times when either a database table that Wordfence uses has been corrupted or you need to delete all of the data that Wordfence created on your site database. Wordfence does have a setting that you can enable to delete tables and data on deactivation it can be found from the following settings page; Wordfence > All Options > General Wordfence Options Wordfence has a plugin that can Continue reading the post...

WordPress in the upcoming release 5.3 now includes a feature to verify the admin email every 6 months. The idea is to make sure that the email set as the admin email is valid and still an email address that is being used for the site. Having the admin email verification show every 6 months will be something that could be annoying to clients when they go to log in to wp-login.php on client sites. But in WordPress core in Continue reading the post...