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MainWP Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

April MainWP Roundup: Domain Migrations, Acquisitions & More

In this month’s MainWP Roundup, we visit the perils of a domain migration, WordPress critiques, upcoming WordPress events, and ongoing acquisitions. Buckle up, let’s ride! Woo’s Domain Migration Reversal Woo had a tough time in April. They had to reverse their domain migration from Woo.com back to WooCommerce.com. According to their blog post, “Moving to Woo.com created challenges for our users to find WooCommerce in Google searches, which were made worse following Google’s March update. To address those challenges, we assembled a group of SEO experts and consultants to evaluate the best way to build on the strength of the

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Marc Benzakein

MainWP Partners with Post SMTP for Straightforward, Simple Email Management Across Your Child Sites

In today’s fast-paced digital world, managing communication across multiple WordPress sites can be a major task. The constant influx of emails, coupled with the need for reliable delivery, often leaves site owners in a bind. This challenge is magnified by the sheer number of plugins each WordPress site juggles. With that said, we’re excited to share some fantastic news that promises address this issue. MainWP is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Post SMTP, culminating in the launch of the MainWP Post SMTP Extension. This innovative solution is engineered to streamline your email configuration and management processes directly from

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Marc Benzakein

Effortless Email Management: Integrating Post SMTP with MainWP for Multiple-Site Control

If you’ve used WordPress, you’re likely familiar with its built-in email function, wp_mail. However, if you’ve managed multiple WordPress sites, you’re probably familiar with the fact that the wp_mail function is not reliable for sending emails. Fortunately, you can easily counter this issue by installing a WordPress SMTP plugin such as Post SMTP that lets you connect with all major third-party email service providers (like Gmail, Microsoft 365, Amazon SES, Sendgrid, etc.) for reliable email delivery. The benefits of using SMTP services to send email include:  Scalability & Reliability: Outsourcing email handling keeps your web server’s load minimal, which allows

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Marc Benzakein

Post SMTP: Your All-in-One WordPress SMTP Plugin

If you own a WordPress website, you know how important email communication is to your online success. Whether it’s order confirmations, password resets, or any other type of email, you want to make sure that your messages reach your recipients’ inboxes and not their spam folders. However, WordPress’s default mail functionality is unreliable, which often results in low deliverability rates, bounced emails, and spam complaints. In turn, this can hurt your reputation, your customer satisfaction, and your conversions. That’s why you need a better solution to send and manage your WordPress emails effectively. And that’s where the Post SMTP plugin

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MainWP News
Donata Stroink-Skillrud

EU AI Act: What You Need to Know

On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament voted in favor of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), a landmark regulation that imposes requirements for AI technologies. The Act sets forth a comprehensive framework for the development, use and marketing of AI and aims to support innovation while mitigating the harmful effect of AI systems in the European Union. The Act reaches these goals by classifying AI according to its risk, placing obligations on developers and deployers of AI tools, and even prohibiting certain AI systems from being launched into use. In this article, we will break down

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WordPress Business
Todd Jones

How Subject Matter Experts Boost Your Content Credibility

Using Subject Experts will instantly help your content build trust and credibility, and ultimately help you tap into authority. Tapping into that authority also leads to building authority for you and your company. Way back in November 2022, I got a surprise DM in my LinkedIn from a content marketing hero of mine, Andy Crestodina. To say I was surprised and elated was an understatement. He told me he was thinking about writing an article on About Pages and wanted to hop on a call. He visited with me for a few minutes and used some of my thoughts in

MainWP Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

MainWP Roundup: Celebrating Ten years of MainWP

In this edition of the MainWP Roundup, we are going to celebrate 10 years of MainWP. We are going to look at articles and podcast appearances from our co-founder Dennis Dornon and Marketing Manager Marc Benzakein. So grab a slice of the MainWP Ten Year celebration cake, a glass of your favorite drink, sit back and ride through this month’s roundup. (choose one below, with a little help from AI) Here is a look at some articles and podcasts that you may have missed. Dennis interviewed at Atarim This article with Dennis is part of the Atarim Founder’s Series and

MainWP v5 By The Numbers
MainWP News
Dennis Dornon

MainWP Version 5 by the Numbers: A Monumental Update

The release of MainWP Version 5 marks a significant milestone in our journey towards providing a more powerful, efficient, and user-friendly WordPress management experience. This update is the culmination of tireless effort, innovation, and feedback, reflected in some remarkable numbers that we’re proud to share with our community. Over 1400 Working Hours: The dedication of our team is measured not just in days or weeks but in the over 1400 hours of work put into it. That’s just short of 2 months in real-time, but for us, it was stretched over months, starting with our first bit of version 5

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