MainWP 6.1 Keeps Taking Shape – May 26, 2026

This week’s updates are all about making MainWP more dependable behind the scenes and easier to manage day to day. From cleaner activity logs and better permission controls to stronger recovery handling across add-ons, these changes focus on the small details that make a big difference when managing WordPress sites at scale.

Product Updates

Last week’s updates focused on MainWP 6.1 Early Release builds, cleaner activity logs, improved permission handling, and more reliable add-on workflows. The practical result: better oversight, fewer rough edges, and smoother day-to-day site management for agencies managing WordPress at scale.

MainWP Core – Early Release Updates

For users running Early Release builds, MainWP Dashboard 6.1-er.3 and 6.1-er.4 include several refinements across the Dashboard experience.

The light theme received more polish across the shell, navigation, top bar, shadows, and client icon rendering. Network Activity also got cleaner, with plugin and theme names now showing more clearly and user login events using more consistent descriptions.

There are also fixes around child site favicons during connection, admin notification handling, group visibility permissions, and the Site Hardening “Manage Updates” action for outdated themes.

MainWP Child 6.1-er.2 and 6.1-er.3 also improve Network Activity wording and strengthen plugin/theme health check monitoring with better background scheduling and recovery from missed scheduled events.

MainWP Add-ons

MainWP add-ons also received a solid round of updates this week, especially around reporting, analytics integrations, permissions, and recovery workflows.

Team Control 5.1 is the biggest add-on update in this batch. It adds more granular permissions for API Backups, REST API access, API keys, and application passwords. User management is also easier with multi-role filtering, bulk role changes, role user counts, and quick links for filtering users by role.

The interface has also been cleaned up with better empty states, improved role editor layouts, saved table preferences, cleaner modals, and more relevant backup permission visibility when legacy backups are disabled.

The Google Search Console 6.0.3 and Google Analytics 6.0.3 integrations both received updates around authentication handling, scheduled jobs, token refresh flows, and clearer debug reporting. These changes help make connected reporting data easier to maintain and troubleshoot.

Bulk Settings Manager 5.0.5 fixes key saving to child sites, and Pro Reports 5.1.4 restores support for the custom tokens filter, helping custom report integrations continue working as expected.

Documentation Updates

The Team Control guide now reflects the updated role management experience, including Dashboard Users and Roles & Permissions tabs, bulk role changes, role filtering, user counts, and clearer permission workflows.

The Google Analytics Extension troubleshooting section now explains how to use Reset Now when a corrupted or missing site secret prevents MainWP Bridge authentication, plus when to reconnect affected accounts.

The Available Pro Reports Tokens reference now includes new Google Search Console date tokens, helping reports show the start and end dates for the selected reporting window.

These updates may look small on the surface, but together they make MainWP 6.1 more reliable, easier to manage, and better suited for agencies handling multiple WordPress sites every day. If you’re testing the Early Release builds, this is a good time to see what’s changing and how the new improvements can simplify your workflow.