MainWP Early Release Extension – May 19, 2026

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 Updates

This week’s MainWP Early Release updates bring a strong mix of performance improvements, cleaner reporting, and reliability fixes ahead of next week’s full release.

MainWP Core – Early Release Updates 6.1

MainWP Dashboard 6.1-er.2
For users testing Early Release builds, this update improves several day-to-day management details in the Dashboard.

Saved table layouts now get better validation, helping prevent broken or incorrect column views after updates. Plugin and theme notes on Auto Update pages also save correctly again, which should reduce small workflow interruptions during routine maintenance.

The sites list also gets faster uptime column rendering through smarter caching, making uptime information quicker to review when managing multiple sites. PHPSecLib has also been updated to the latest version.

MainWP Child 6.1-er.1
This Early Release update improves report accuracy by excluding spammed comments from report counts and token metrics.

That means cleaner client-facing data and fewer odd numbers to explain later. Always a win.

PHPSecLib has also been updated to the latest version.

MainWP Add-ons

Pro Reports 5.1.3
Pro Reports gets a strong reliability-focused update for agencies and site care teams that depend on scheduled client reporting.

Reports now skip suspended sites, so report processing and final counts focus only on active sites. Token handling has also been improved to prevent incorrect dates from appearing on the first page of reports.

This release also improves report processing locks, helping reduce conflicts and keeping reports running more reliably when scheduled tasks overlap or get triggered manually.

Other practical improvements include:

• API Backups support in report data settings, giving reports better coverage for backup-related data.
• More reliable run-now report timing, so manual report runs calculate the correct reporting period.
• Stronger input checks across previews, test emails, PDF exports, and sending actions.
• Clearer email validation messages when report emails need to be regenerated.
• Better PDF generation with improved text encoding, font fallback, and embedded image handling.

In plain agency terms: fewer report surprises, cleaner PDFs, better timing, and more predictable client reporting.

Atarim Integration 5.0.2
Atarim Integration now has improved plugin initialization timing for better compatibility inside WordPress.

It also includes the smarter uptime column rendering improvement, helping uptime information load more efficiently in the sites list.

Lighthouse Integration 5.2.1
Lighthouse Integration gets a cleaner settings experience with success and failure messages after saving settings, plus new section subheadings that make the configuration page easier to follow.

It also includes improved plugin initialization timing and faster uptime column rendering in the sites list.

Small usability improvements, but useful ones. The kind that reduce second-guessing when you are moving through maintenance tasks across a full client stack.

Documentation Updates

New: Reload a Child Site Favicon explains how to refresh stale, missing, or default child site icons from Sites > Manage Sites, including bulk actions and troubleshooting tips.

Pro Reports documentation now includes expanded guidance for custom fonts and PDF styling, clarifies that suspended sites are skipped for both scheduled and one-time reports, and explains when the Backups section appears with API Backups or supported backup add-ons.

MainWP Dashboard icon guidance now explains that the red Update Dashboard Site badge is based only on the Dashboard site’s own WordPress updates, with troubleshooting for stale update data or caching.

Dashboard Lock documentation now calls out that Admin area lock and Login page lock options currently do not work on nginx servers.

This latest update improves Dashboard responsiveness, tighten up scheduled reporting workflows, and make client reports more accurate with better PDF handling, smarter report processing, and cleaner uptime data across the platform. Several add-ons also received usability improvements that make routine maintenance tasks feel more consistent and predictable when managing multiple WordPress sites.