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Research and Development at MainWP Over the past week, the MainWP team concentrated on research, planning, and technical evaluation to support the platform’s continued evolution. This phase of development includes assessing community feedback, refining ideas, exploring implementation approaches, and determining where future efforts will deliver the greatest benefit. Although there are no major feature announcements this week, this work is an important part of ensuring that future updates are well designed, thoroughly tested, and focused on the needs of the Continue reading the post...

Managing multiple WordPress sites is easier with the latest MainWP Dashboard 6.1.2 release. Along with stronger security and greater reliability, we’ve updated documentation for four extensions to provide clearer guidance and troubleshooting. Product Updates These updates focus on tighter access control, clearer site management, and a handful of practical fixes that make managing your MainWP Dashboard work more predictable. For agencies and site care teams, this means better oversight when managing connected sites, fewer small workflow interruptions, and more reliable Continue reading the post...

Product Updates These updates are focused on connection security in MainWP Child, a database installer fix for Code Snippets, and a new third-party add-on for teams managing AdSanity across multiple WordPress sites. MainWP Child 6.1.2 MainWP Child 6.1.2 improves connection verification for passwordless setups. If Password Authentication is disabled, adding or reconnecting a child site now requires the Unique Security ID. This applies to manual connections, reconnects, the MainWP REST API, and other automations. For agencies and site care teams Continue reading the post...

Product Updates Last week’s MainWP updates focused on cleaner workflows, better visibility, and more reliable add-on behavior across routine site management. The largest updates landed in Code Snippets 5.1 and Maintenance 5.2. Code Snippets received a cleaner editing experience with a modernized code editor, better snippet organization, and improved handling around snippet data. Maintenance now gives agencies more control over scheduled maintenance tasks, including pause and resume controls, bulk schedule management, and clearer schedule status details. For agencies and site Continue reading the post...

Last week’s MainWP updates focused on maintenance improvements across Core, with larger workflow updates for the Custom Dashboard and Pressable Integration extensions. Product Updates MainWP Dashboard and MainWP Child received reliability updates for logging, permissions, authentication handling, and update checks. Custom Dashboard and Pressable Integration brought more visible improvements for snippet editing, Pressable site mapping, credential handling, and cleaner admin workflows. MainWP Core MainWP Dashboard 6.1.1 MainWP Dashboard 6.1.1 is a focused maintenance release that improves log processing, directory permission Continue reading the post...

This week’s MainWP updates focus on practical improvements that make WordPress site management smoother, including stronger credential handling, cleaner activity logs, better cache control, more reliable reporting, and fewer background task issues. MainWP Dashboard 6.1 and MainWP Child 6.1 lead this week’s releases, while several extension and documentation updates deliver practical improvements for agencies and site care teams managing WordPress sites at scale. Product Updates The week of May 25th brought a full set of MainWP updates, led by the Continue reading the post...

If you manage WordPress websites for clients, you’ve probably run into the same problem over and over again. You spend time maintaining sites, applying updates, monitoring security, fixing compatibility issues, and keeping everything running smoothly… but when the client sees their monthly report, all they see is: “WooCommerce updated from 10.4.3 to 10.5.3.” That doesn’t tell the full story. It doesn’t explain the security vulnerabilities that were patched, the performance improvements that were introduced, or the new features that are Continue reading the post...

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, Continue reading the post...

With the recent release of US H8413 (Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement Over Data Act), it seems that the hopes of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States have been somewhat rekindled. However, those of us who have seen many of these bills fail or simply be forgotten about are not overly optimistic. With many countries having comprehensive laws protecting privacy, unfortunately, it does not seem like the US will have one anytime soon. In Continue reading the post...

Want early access to upcoming MainWP features before the public release? The MainWP Early Access Extension lets agencies, developers, and experienced WordPress users test new Dashboard and Child plugin updates ahead of time, explore improvements early, and help shape future releases through real-world feedback and testing. Install the Early Release Update 6.1 By using the MainWP Early Access, you will always see new Early Releases updates automatically as they become available, without the need to manually download each version. Product Continue reading the post...