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Have you ever wondered what does the number in the circle (in the Sites table) means? It indicates the number of currently available updates for that site. This number is the total number of updates, for themes and plugins together. [box] Ignored updates won’t be displayed here. [/box]     Continue reading the post...

When you search for posts or pages, by default MainWP Dashboard is set to show maximum 50 posts (pages) from each site. This limitation prevents overloading your servers. If you want to increase this go to the MainWP > Settings page and locate the Data Return Options box. If you set Maximum number of Posts/Pages option, for example to 100, that means that your Dashboard will get only 100 posts (pages) from each site per search. If you want to Continue reading the post...

If you want to quickly check your child site server information, without of leaving your dashboard site, go to:  MainWP > Server information page  On the far right you will find Child Site Information tab  Select  your site from the dropdown menu When you select your child site, you will see following information: Server Information Cron Schedules WP – Config File Error Log       Continue reading the post...

  If you want MainWP dashboard to update Plugins and/or Themes automatically for you, you need to enable the Auto Updates feature and to mark plugins (themes) you trust to be automatically updated. Enabling Auto Updates Feature To enable auto updates, go to: MainWP> Settings> Global option tab and locate the Upgrade options box: In Automatic daily update box choose Install Trusted Updates option and click the Save Settings button in the bottom of the page. Marking Plugins (Themes) as Continue reading the post...

By default updates in the MainWP Dashboard appear in a per plugin view. This means that if you list all your available updates in the right now widget the list will show all your plugins with available updates. You can switch this view and show the updates per site if you prefer. To do this , go to the MainWP > Settings > Global options tab, locked the Upgrade options box and set the View upgrades per site to YES: Continue reading the post...

Purpose of the toggle option is to clean your working environment by hiding unused options, but this can also hide some important options so you need to be careful when searching for needed settings. Since some of MainWP option boxes can be collapsed, sometimes it is easy to miss provided features. For example, on Extensions page you have Bulk Install and Activate Extensions option: After you click Bulk Install and Activate Extensions toggle handle, new options will appear: Many of Continue reading the post...

MainWP Child 2.0.9.2 contains a critical security update, and you should update all your Child sites as soon as possible. You can update all your Child sites directly through your MainWP dashboard (be sure to Sync your sites to see the available update), or download the MainWP Child manually here. Yesterday we were contacted by the Sucuri Labs team regarding a vulnerability that would allow attackers to log into any account without requiring the password as long as they know the Continue reading the post...

Important Security Update Please Update your MainWP Child Plugins to 2.03 Earlier today we were notified through our White Hat Reward program of a potential security issue.  We are not currently releasing the details of the issue until users have a chance to upgrade their Child plugins. Quickly Update all your Child Plugins If you want to quickly upgrade only your MainWP Child you can change your Dashboard from showing upgrades per site to updates per Plugin. This will allow Continue reading the post...

Introducing “The Bundle” from MainWP We now have almost 30 Extensions and ever since the second MainWP Extension was released users have requested the ability to purchase all Extensions at one price. With “The Bundle” that is now possible!  With the purchase of “The Bundle” you not only get all the MainWP Extensions currently released but also all future MainWP Extension each with a lifetime license for a very limited time introductory price of $399. But what about the Extensions Continue reading the post...

MainWP 2.0 released We are excited to release the all new MainWP 2.0, focused largely on backups and overall Dashboard usability. With almost 3 months of development and 1000’s of lines of code changes this release is our most extensive and exciting update. MainWP 2.0 by the numbers 82 Days in development Over 100 active beta testers (testers with at least 1 report) The Dashboard plugin had 77 files changed with 7,037 lines added or modified The Child Plugin had 19 files changed with 2,924 lines added or modified 4 all new Archive Types for backups Continue reading the post...