MainWP Blog - Tips & Tricks

In this video Osman from IMMATURE explains his need for a WordPress management tool like MainWP. In the MainWP videoblog series, Osman will be discussing how MainWP is influencing his work for the better in future videos. Different aspects will be discussed as well as explained. So stay tuned for more videos! Continue reading the post...

People use WordPress management services to do many different things and in the process save themselves a lot of precious time. Work that can take a day, can be accomplished in an hour. And while there certainly is a myriad of tasks that can be performed with these WordPress management services, some of them stand out because they make the very core of maintenance that every WordPress site requires. They are also unsurprisingly the most common and popular features, so let’s take Continue reading the post...

Importance of load time can hardly be overestimated. One in every four visitors leaves if the load time isn’t under 4 seconds, and if that isn’t worrying enough, it also impacts their behavior on the website even if they stay. Namely, their inclination to create an account, subscribe, shop, etc. So let’s go over some of the basics of creating a speedy WordPress website and keeping it that way. Hosting service The base of it all. It doesn’t matter how light and Continue reading the post...

If you want to unignore possibly abandoned Plugin or a team go to: MainWP  > Plugins > Ignored Abandoned page. There locate the wanted Plugin and click the Allow button on his right side:   Continue reading the post...

WordPress 4.3 has a cron issue which may affect your sites.  There is a bug in WordPress 4.3, core not MainWP, which can affect some sites causing high CPU loads and / or Database issues but don’t worry with MainWP you can have it fixed on all your sites in just a few steps. The Issue  “Just spent a few hours debugging two sites which went down and tracked it down to wp_options cron exploding in size. There apparently is Continue reading the post...

We had an update recently to WordPress 4.3 that caused a few plugins to have some notices displayed on your websites and blogs. This is normal, over time old code and methods of doing things are deprecated, meaning they are “retired” from normal everyday use. The notice actually gave you a LOT of time to fix your code, as these are PHP4 style constructors. When you get a notice on your screen similar to the one above (which may also Continue reading the post...

I noticed another WordPress Management solution charges almost a $100 a year to use their two-factor authentication add-on however since MainWP is a WordPress Plugin you can add two-factor authentication to your MainWP Dashboard for free. In case you haven’t heard of it before, two-factor authentication is a security process in which the user provides two means of identification from separate categories of credentials. This post will go over two separate plugins that integrate WordPress and their two-factor authentication systems. Continue reading the post...

Your Dashboard allows you to show or hide useful footer bar. To do that, go to: MainWP > Settings > Dashboard Options page and locate Hide MainWP Footer button and set it to fit your needs: Continue reading the post...

This feature checks the last updated status of plugins and themes and alerts you if not updated in a specific amount of time. This gives you insight on if a plugin or theme may have been abandoned by the author: On the MainWP > Settings page, in the Upgrade Options box, you will be able to find Abandoned Plugins/Themes Tolerance option: Here you can set specific amount of time for this feature. By default, it is set to 365 which Continue reading the post...

“I’m not going to be doing many chages on my website, so I don’t have to worry about a lot of maintenance, right?” I chuckle (hopefully not outloud) every time a client asks me this that question. I have to laugh a little bit because it’s a question influenced by some of the worst advice we’ve ever heard about blog maintenance. Low levels of activity with updates on a website does not mean you don’t need any other ongoing website Continue reading the post...