MainWP Blog - Tips & Tricks

MainWP Branding Extension allows you to customize your WordPress (child) sites. With the Branding extension you can easily Change the Login Screen Logo. This option provides you the ability to replace the default WordPress logo(icon) on the login page of your child sites. To do that, go to: MainWP Branding Extension settings page, locate the WordPress Branding Options section and the first option in the section will enable you to do this: Click the Choose File button and locate the Continue reading the post...

If your Child Site is protected with HTTP basic authentication MainWP Dashboard allows you to set the user name and password in order to connect your child sites. To do that go to: MainWP Dashboard > Sites > Add new tab > Advanced Options options box and locate HTTP username and HTTP password  fields: Continue reading the post...

MainWP Maintenance Extension allows you to schedule a maintenance task. To do that go to: MainWP > Extensions > MainWP Maintenance Extension and on the NEW SCHEDULE tab set your maintenance options: Select the child sites your new maintenance job should apply to: And click the Schedule Maintenance button. Continue reading the post...

If you want to quickly add new: Site, Post, Page, Plugin, Theme or User click the Plus icon in your dashboard footer and choose wanted action: Continue reading the post...

To quick access to Child Site Dashboard click the globe icon in your dashboard footer and choose wanted site: Use the provided filter to locate your site faster. Continue reading the post...

The MainWP Post Plus Extension allows you to set random Publishing date for your Posts or Pages by using the option in the MainWP Randomizer metabox. To do that check the Set Random Publishing Date checkbox, optionally you can set a specific date range: [box] If you set a specific date range, the extension will pick a random date from the range, if left blank, the extension will pick a random date. [/box] Continue reading the post...

The MainWP Post Plus Extension allows you to use a random Authors for your posts or pages by using options in the MainWP Randomizer metabox. To do that click the Set Random Author with privilege checkbox, and select the roles of potential authors: [box] Post Plus will pick a users with the selected role(s) from your child site and assign the post. [/box] Continue reading the post...

The MainWP Favorites Extension allows you to install a group of plugins to your child sites. To do that go to: MainWP > Plugins > Favorites Plugins tab. There select the wanted sites: If you already have the Plugins installed, you can overwrite the existing ones by checking the Overwrite existing checkbox. Also If you want to automatically activate the Plugins, make sure that the Activate plugin after installation checkbox is checked: And locate the group in the groups list Continue reading the post...

The MainWP Clean and Lock Extension allows you to redirect all visits on not-wp-admin pages of your dashboard site. To do that go to: MainWP > Extensions > MainWP Clean and Lock Extension and enter an URL Address where you want to redirect visitors and click the Save Settings button:     Continue reading the post...

MainWP Maintenance Extension allows you to: Delete post revisions Delete auto draft posts Delete trash posts Delete spam comments Delete pending comments Delete trash comments Delete tags with 0 posts associated Delete categories with 0 posts associated Optimize database tables To do that go to: MainWP > Extensions > MainWP Maintenance Extension and on the RUN NOW tab select your maintenance options, wanted child sites, after that click the Perform Maintenance button: Continue reading the post...