MainWP Updates: Sharper, Cleaner, More Reliable – June 9, 2026

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 handling, and REST API availability checks.

This update resolves a query issue in the log archive batch process, helping reduce errors during log processing. It also improves permission handling for user and site directories, which keeps Dashboard storage behavior more consistent across different hosting environments.

REST API availability checks for v1 and v2 endpoints were also simplified. This reduces internal validation complexity and keeps API behavior cleaner behind the scenes.

MainWP Child 6.1.1

MainWP Child 6.1.1 improves reliability around authentication failures and premium update detection.

Session cleanup has been improved when authentication fails, helping ensure proper logout behavior. Premium theme and plugin update detection also received improvements, reducing the chance that slow or unreachable update servers cause hangs during update checks.

For teams managing multiple WordPress sites, this helps remove small points of friction from routine maintenance work.

MainWP Add-ons

Custom Dashboard 5.1

Custom Dashboard 5.1 is the largest update in this batch. It improves the editing experience for users who customize their MainWP Dashboard with CSS, JavaScript, or PHP snippets.

The code editor now uses CodeMirror 6 and includes a One Dark editor theme, code folding, autocompletion, automatic bracket closing, and more natural Tab indentation. These changes make snippet work easier to read, write, and review directly inside the Dashboard.

This release also adds PHP pre-save syntax validation, helping catch common syntax issues before snippets are saved. PHP opening and closing tags are now rejected in snippets, which keeps snippet handling cleaner and more predictable.

Behind the scenes, Custom Dashboard 5.1 improves snippet storage handling, updates save responses for better WordPress compatibility, and makes sure custom JavaScript snippets load only on MainWP pages.

The update also includes improved sanitization and escaping across several admin and request-handling areas, along with smaller UI, text, and message fixes.

For agencies that use Custom Dashboard to tailor the MainWP experience for their team or clients, this update makes that work cleaner and less error-prone.

Pressable Integration 5.1

Pressable Integration 5.1 improves how MainWP detects, maps, and displays Pressable sites.

The extension now includes stronger site mapping that can match Pressable sites by primary URLs and custom domains. This should make site detection more reliable in setups where domains, mapped URLs, or hosting records do not line up neatly.

The Pressable settings flow also received practical improvements. Credential validation is clearer, token saving is safer, token refresh handling is more reliable, and syncing Pressable site data should feel more predictable.

The interface also gets cleanup work across the overview table, empty states, modal layouts, backup areas, and widgets. These changes reduce small points of friction when checking hosting-connected data from inside MainWP.

For teams using MainWP with Pressable-hosted sites, this update improves oversight and makes the integration easier to troubleshoot when credentials, site data, or domain mapping need attention.

Documentation Updates

Google Analytics and Google Search Console setup docs now explain REST API pre-flight checks for Google OAuth, why sign-in buttons may be disabled, how to restore /wp-json/ access, and when JSON import is the better fallback.

Article Uploader now has clearer upload and import workflows, updated navigation, and expanded CSV/TXT import guidance, including supported fields such as status, selected sites, and custom metadata.

MainWP Custom Dashboard documentation now covers the 5.1 editor experience, including syntax highlighting, autocompletion, code folding, tagless PHP snippets, pre-save PHP validation, and safer runtime error handling.

Custom report template guidance now includes expanded font troubleshooting for generated PDFs, including unique font family names, bold font handling, Dompdf font metric refreshes, and cache cleanup guidance.

Regression Testing now clarifies how per-site notification recipients override the general notification email settings for child-site alerts.

Keeping documentation current is just as important as shipping new features. These updates help answer common questions, reduce troubleshooting time, and make it easier to get the most out of MainWP and its extensions.