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Good website design and management should not be based on feelings or personal preferences. Rather it should be based on data and facts that move you closer to your goals. That’s why I love A/B split testing. It’s all about figuring out the correct path for your design based on hard data. If you’re serious about measuring the ROI of a website, then A/B split testing will help you work towards the best design by allowing you to test different options Continue reading the post...

MainWP has partnered with BlogVault to bring you bulletproof incremental off-site backups for all your MainWP Child sites at an exclusive discount of 25% off their normal prices. All you need to do is install the free BlogVault Backup Extension and follow the directions to get started quickly and easily! Get the BlogVault Extension! Why is this an Extension? Why can’t you just give us the signup link? This is an Exclusive discount only for MainWP customers, That is why Continue reading the post...

  Taking a break from the usual blog posts to bring you something that is unfortunately close to home: protecting against and remediating compromised WordPress sites. Sometimes I wake up to a new exploit and have to go manually through dozens of sites – but with MainWP if it’s a plugin fix, I can deploy it in a matter of 30 seconds. Click here to find out more: https://mainwp.com/stop-xml-rpc-bruteforce-attacks-by-using-mainwp/For many small business owners (and even for medium and large businesses) websites Continue reading the post...

Late last week the Sucuri security blog announced that have seen a large uptick in brute force attacks on WordPress sites using XML-RPC and today we’ll go over 3 very quick and easy ways to turn off XML – RPC on all your MainWP Child sites. The Sucuri Blog goes into great detail on how the attack works and I recommend you check that out if you want the full details. MainWP does not communicate with your Child sites through Continue reading the post...

In creating these series of posts I am trying to make sure that developers and companies that want to integrate their services into MainWP have the tools at hand to easily work with a framework to create their final product. I want to ensure that you have the help you need to add your functionality and unique product or service to MainWP as a whole. In the previous posts we have covered how to create a basic WordPress plugin, connecting it Continue reading the post...

Note: We heard that the DesktopServer is discontinuing soon. We are preparing a knowledge base article to help you run MainWP locally. We will keep you posted, stay tuned! We’ve had numerous support questions asking how to set up the MainWP Dashboard locally and in all honesty we would basically say, it is not something we would recommend you doing if you don’t already know how to set up a local server. The reason for that is that there are so Continue reading the post...

MainWP Plugin allows you to see available updates in two ways: Per Site Per Plugin (theme) On your main Dashboard page in the Right Now widget you can find the dropdown menu to select preferred view.   Continue reading the post...

In this video Osman explains how you can easily manage your WordPress sites using the MainWP plugin. In less than 3 minutes of your time, he explains how to install MainWP on your master WordPress site, followed by explaining how MainWP child can be installed on your child site. This all is then brought together via a brief example of connecting your child site to MainWP on your main WordPress site. Stay tuned for more videos! Continue reading the post...

In this video Osman from IMMATURE explains his need for a WordPress management tool like MainWP. In the MainWP videoblog series, Osman will be discussing how MainWP is influencing his work for the better in future videos. Different aspects will be discussed as well as explained. So stay tuned for more videos! Continue reading the post...

People use WordPress management services to do many different things and in the process save themselves a lot of precious time. Work that can take a day, can be accomplished in an hour. And while there certainly is a myriad of tasks that can be performed with these WordPress management services, some of them stand out because they make the very core of maintenance that every WordPress site requires. They are also unsurprisingly the most common and popular features, so let’s take Continue reading the post...