MainWP 6.x Updates: Faster Sync, Better Reporting, and Expanded REST API Capabilities

Managing multiple WordPress sites comes with constant moving parts, and even small inefficiencies can add up over time. This latest round of MainWP updates focuses on smoothing out those daily tasks making updates faster, reporting more accurate, and workflows easier to manage. You’ll also see improvements to the REST API and activity tracking, giving you better visibility and control across your network without adding extra complexity.

We released several updates across MainWP Core and extensions, focusing on performance, reliability, clearer reporting, improved REST API support, and better day-to-day workflows.

MainWP Core

MainWP Dashboard 6.0.11

This release improves bulk update performance, makes update overview counts more accurate by including only connected child sites, and adds several workflow improvements.

You can now duplicate operational costs, access ignored WordPress core updates more easily, and quickly copy post or page permalinks and IDs from table dropdown menus.

The release also adds custom_fields support to the sites REST API endpoint and includes refinements to cache behavior, server information exports, empty states, and screenshot preview handling.

MainWP Child 6.0.10

MainWP Child improves namespace prefix handling for more accurate module loading and enhances background synchronization for detecting and reporting abandoned plugins and themes.

We also published early releases for upcoming Core improvements:

MainWP Dashboard 6.0.12-er.1

This early release improves site management stability, bulk sync performance, and Network Activity logging for auto-updates. It also includes a REST API refinement for _fields requests in the sites controller.

MainWP Child 6.0.11-er.1

This early release addresses a legacy Customizer-related issue exposed through the global customize_register hook.

Extension Updates

Comments 6.0

Comments 6.0 is a major update for the MainWP Comments extension, with improvements across security, activity tracking, API support, and internal structure.

This release adds Network Activity logging for comment actions, making comment-related changes easier to track and audit. It also introduces a new REST API controller and supporting files, giving the extension a stronger foundation for future improvements.

Behind the scenes, Comments 6.0 improves input sanitization and output escaping across comment AJAX handlers, refactors database handling with a new MainWP_Comment_DB wrapper, and adds utility helpers for more consistent comment handling.

The update also includes cleaner session handling, refined comment search and action workflows, and smaller improvements to CSS, JavaScript, widgets, and documentation.

SSL Monitor 5.1.4

SSL Monitor now sorts certificates by their actual expiration values, improving the accuracy of the expiration overview.

This update also adds success and error messages after saving settings, along with UI refinements for padded segments, headers, widget footer buttons, and documentation links.

Documentation Updates

Manage Updates now gives clearer guidance for ignoring WordPress core updates, including per-site and version-specific options, where to review ignored updates, and what to expect when ignored updates remain but no updates are currently actionable.

Early Access now better explains how to opt in to pre-release MainWP Dashboard and MainWP Child updates, manage access globally or per site, use Lab feature cards, and roll back to stable releases.

Clone now reflects the current cloning workflow, including the 256MB Quick Clone recommendation, updated navigation, site sync step, and clearer Clone from Backup guidance.

Code Snippets now has sharper guidance on snippet types, saving or executing snippets, recovering from bad snippets on broken sites, and using wp-config.php snippets more safely.

File Uploader now includes updated navigation, clearer destination selection for websites, tags, or clients, filename sanitization behavior, and expanded supported file type guidance.