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Having an unique Administrator username is essential for your site’s security! After installing WordPress, unless you specify another name, default administrator username will be ”admin”. If you continue using “admin” as an administrator username, a hacker can easily break into your website. With performing a brute force attack on your account using the default WordPress admin username in order to retrieve your password a hacker will gain access over your website. By logging into your WordPress admin account a hacker will have Continue reading the post...

We have been hard at work adding many much-needed features and tweaking current code to present a more user-friendly experience that many of you have requested. While working on our much anticipated .1.8 release we felt it necessary to create a .1.7.1 build to address two small issues. MainWP  .1.7.1 Updates: Usability: Google Analytics data request and processing updated. Bug: Corrected invalid links created under specific circumstances. The Current MainWP Dashboard and Child Versions are: MainWP Dashboard: 0.1.7.1 Download your updates from Continue reading the post...

We have just added 2 new features to your MainWP Members area, Your Dashboards and Cron Jobs. The “Your Dashboards” feature allows you to disable a MainWP Dashboard from your account without needing to contact support. This is especially helpful to users who want to change where there Dashboard is installed. The “Cron Jobs” feature was created to send a web request via the Members area to your MainWP Dashboard. Some of the features such as backups and updates are Continue reading the post...

Do you have an audience of WordPress users or website owners? Then you should be earning cash by promoting the MainWP plugin. Affiliate programs are common through out the Internet and offer website owners an additional way to profit from their websites. Affiliates generate sales for products and in return receive a commission. As a MainWP affiliate you will earn 50% commission per sale. Why Promote MainWP? You have an audience of WordPress users. Our affiliate program is free to join, easy Continue reading the post...

WordPress powers approximately 17% of all the websites online around the world. This means that it is a very attractive platform for hackers to try and compromise as it gives them the ability to take down or control many websites with just a single exploit. How do WordPress sites get hacked? A recent study has shown that WordPress Blogs get hacked for the following reason. 41% of WordPress sites are hacked due to insecure hosting (research your potential host before Continue reading the post...

Thanks to all of you! As you may have noticed, MainWP reached a milestone of 25,000 managed WordPress sites and at this point, we would like to thank all our users for making this possible. Thanks! We can’t even begin to express how grateful we are to all of you who have become a part of the MainWP family. Thank you for all your comments, suggestions and ideas.  Also, thank you for your help squishing bugs during the Beta. Hitting that Continue reading the post...

Keeping WordPress core, plugins and themes up to date is the best way to make your sites safe and secure, but what happens when life gets busy and you just don’t have enough time to worry about updates.  What if you are on vacation and you don’t have a partner with the technical experience or know how to run those updates? Are you willing to risk your sites or your client’s sites safety? Not to worry, you don’t have to! Continue reading the post...

MainWP Dashboard 0.1.7 and MainWP Child: 0.9 bring us a lot of usability updates and we got a few bugs squished and out of the way. We spent some time really looking at how the average MainWP user works with the Dashboard and combined that with the input we receive from the support forum and trouble tickets to come up with some new functions that should make the MainWP dashboard even more of a time-saver for you. Main Dashboard Updates: Continue reading the post...

We know backing up your sites is important, and so should you. Have you ever thought about what may happen if your site is hacked, or lost altogether? How would you get back all those hours of hard work, how long would it take? Your site may never be the same again. The MainWP Dashboard Beta version 0.1.6 includes an all new and easier to use backup system for both the Automated Recurring Backups and “On Demand” Backups. We have Continue reading the post...

Building an affiliate network is a marketing method in which the network owner gets paid for referring potential customers to a specific product. Payment method can be PPC (pay-per-click) where network owner gets paid every time a visitor clicks on one of the advertising links or a Commission-Based payment system where the owner is paid on actual conversions. In this article we are going to go over four steps which will show you the quickest way to set up an affiliate network: Continue reading the post...