MainWP Blog - Tips & Tricks

Have you ever gone into work and thought, “Man, I’m tired?” Fast forward two hours, and you’re slumped over your desk, head in your hands, dreary-eyed, and drowsy? Why? Because you told yourself you’re tired. In the military, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are taught one concept: mind over matter. The phrase was first coined by the poet Virgil in the Aenid in 19 B.C. in the saying, “the mind drives the mass.” What it equates to in this sense Continue reading the post...

WordPress core includes a default dashboard widget called At a Glance. The dashboard widget will show the number of pages, WordPress version, if the site is public or not, and the active theme. If you are using a plugin like Disable Widgets on your child site to hide certain dashboard widgets, you will need to make sure the At a Glance (dashboard_right_now) is not disabled. Appearance > Disable Widgets > Dashboard Widgets First, install the Glance That plugin on your Continue reading the post...

WordPress 5.2 includes a new, exciting feature which will show the health of your site. This helpful feature is on track for release on May 7th. You can access the site health feature on your site if you are an admin user in wp-admin from; Tools > Site Health The first page will end up running a series of tests on your site. Those test results will be displayed back on the page. The percentage, which shows at the top Continue reading the post...

Sometimes setting up meetings with clients can be a nightmare of back and forth in emails or text messages. A way to get around easily being able to setup meetings is by using Doodle. Doodle is an online scheduling tool that can be used quickly and easily to find a date and time to meet with multiple people. First, you suggest dates and times for your event participants to choose from, then Doodle creates a polling calendar which can be Continue reading the post...

The single biggest child site issue that you can end up dealing with is why is the site email not being sent. You could use an SMTP plugin and then use SMTP creds to connect. But using a transactional email provider makes it easier in knowing that your child site email will be delivered correctly. The delivery of site email can be a pain to deal with on child sites. If a site is using WooCommerce or a form plugin Continue reading the post...

A good night’s sleep is high on the list of the most important things you can do to make sure you have a fighting chance of being able to achieve your daily goals. Tracking your sleep cycle will provide you with a better idea of how well you are sleeping during the night.  There is an easy-to-use sleep cycle app, available for both Android and iOS devices. The application will monitor your sleep overnight, so you can work out Continue reading the post...

Google Duplex was revealed last year. It is a new technology for conducting natural conversations to carry out ‘real world’ tasks over the phone. The most fascinating example of what Google Duplex can be used for is Google Assistant on certain Google devices, like Pixel. All Android and iOS devices will be able to use Google Assistant to book a restaurant. You will need to simply tell Google Assistant which restaurant to call and book a table at, how many Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce is used to power very high-level e-commerce stores which use WordPress. It currently has over 4+ million active installs. WooCommerce has an upcoming release planned for April 11th, 2019, version 3.6. The new version will include a number of performance changes, which will help when used on your child site for e-commerce. One of the changes you can test in the most recent first release candidate is for showing extension suggestions in various places in wp-admin. The suggestion extension recommends notification can be Continue reading the post...

Two major, well-known WordPress plugins have recently implemented certain changes which have not gone down well with the WordPress community. Jetpack in version 7.1, made a change with Jetpack active when you go to /wp-admin/ Plugins > Add New If a Jetpack module has similar features to the plugin keyword you are searching for, the first result will be the Jetpack module. The Jetpack PR shows the original proof of concept of the plugin suggestion feature. If you already have Continue reading the post...

If you use MainWP for managing your child sites, you already have a way to update plugins, themes, and push different code changes to those sites without having to deal with multisite performance issues. Multisite allows many subsites to share common plugins and themes. In addition, all sites will end up sharing the same database and server resources. The downside to sharing database and server resources will be explained later. Multisite only database tables wp_site wp_sitemeta wp_blogs wp_blogmeta – New Continue reading the post...