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If you want to clean up your sites table, you can enable the Actions column. Since the column provides you all necessary shortcuts and actions, you can remove a few other columns:     Following actions (links) are provided in respective order:   Open Child Site Dashboard Edit Child Site Open Child Site WP Admin Sync Child Site Show Security Scan Report Test Connection Backup Child Site Add New Post Show Child Site SEO Open Child Site Notes Continue reading the post...

If you want to update your plugins by a site group go to: MainWP > Sites > Manage tab. In the dropdown menu select wanted site group and click Display button: Select wanted sites in the group, chose the Update Plugins bulk action in the dropdown menu and click Apply button: Continue reading the post...

You can set your MainWP plugin to send an email notification to your email address when your backup starts. To turn on this notification go to: MainWP > Settings page > Global Options tab and find the Backup Options section, there locate the Send Email when a backup starts option and set it to YES:   After that click the Save Settings button on the bottom of page. Continue reading the post...

When you are adding monitor to your child sites, the Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension enables you to choose which Monitor Type you want. Here are short details about monitor types: http(s): that’s perfect for website monitoring. The service regularly sends requests (which are the same as if a visitor is browsing your website) to the URL and decides if it is up or down depending on the HTTP statuses returned from the website (200-success, 404-not found, etc.) ping: this is good Continue reading the post...

You can set your MainWP plugin to send an email notification to your email address if your backup fails. To turn on Backup failure notification go to: MainWP > Settings page > Global Options tab and find the Backup Options section, there locate the Send Email when a backup fails option and set it to YES: After that click the Save Settings button on the bottom of page.     Continue reading the post...

If you want to quickly view notes for your child site, go to Child Site Dashboard and locate the Notes widget. In the widget body you will be able to see all you notes for that site. Use the Edit Notes button if you want to quickly edit your notes on your child site.     Continue reading the post...

After fixing security issues, MainWP Dashboard offers you to reverse the fixing process and to unfix issues any time you like. To unfix issues, go to: MainWP Dashboard > Sites > Manage tab and under the URL column click on the Security Scan link and locate the Unfix link: If the WordPress Version, RSD (Really Simple Discovery) meta tag, and the Windows Live Writer meta tag issues are fixed (removed) by using some other plugin, MainWP Dashboard will detect issues Continue reading the post...

On the MainWP Dashboard you can find the Security Issues widget: When you click the Show All button you will get the list of all issues on your child sites: There you have an option to fix all issues or to fix all issues on the child site separately. Continue reading the post...

MainWP Sucuri Extension provides web-based malware scanning of your web sites using the latest in fingerprinting technology allowing you to determine if your web applications are out of date, exploited with malware, or even blacklisted by popular search engines. To Scan your child site, 1. Go to the MainWP Dashboard > Sites > Manage tab, 2. Locate the child site you want to scan, 3. In the URL column, under the site URL, locate the Security Scan link and click Continue reading the post...

The manage site table enable to sort your child sites by Site name, URL, Group, Last Sync date and Last Post date. By clicking on the column header you can change the order of your child sites. [box] MainWP Dashboard Plugin caches your site order so the next time you visit the manage sites page sites will be in the same order you have left them. [/box]   Continue reading the post...