Safer Changes, Clearer Results Across MainWP

Product Updates

Last week’s add-on updates focused on safer cache management, clearer Google Search Console workflows, and better control over custom code. The result is more reliable maintenance with fewer surprises across your connected sites.

MainWP Add-on Updates

Cache Control Integration 5.3

Cache Control Integration 5.3 improves bulk cache purging with stronger authorization, site validation, separate per-site results, and retry options when outcomes are mixed or unsuccessful. Cloudflare credential handling is also safer during encrypted-storage migrations and failed save or delete attempts. A new MainWP Abilities API capability can report each child site’s detected cache solution, latest purge, and auto-purge configuration.

Google Search Console 6.3

Google Search Console 6.3 prevents scheduled refreshes from overlapping and reports their outcomes more accurately. Site selection and dashboard data now follow each user’s permitted site access, while refreshed connections keep property assignments in sync. New MainWP AI Assistant actions provide tools for reviewing connections and properties, managing mappings and refresh settings, and requesting data refreshes.

Custom Dashboard 5.2

Custom Dashboard 5.2 adds MainWP abilities for checking snippet status, validating PHP, and previewing or applying PHP, CSS, and JavaScript changes. Concurrent editing is easier to manage, with a warning when another user changes a snippet and your draft preserved until you reload. PHP validation also rejects malformed snippets without running them.

Documentation Updates

New: Cache Control Abilities guide covers automating cache-status checks, purge settings, credential validation, and individual site purges, with guidance on interpreting results.

New: Google Search Console Abilities guide explains how to use AI Assistant and automation to review cached search performance, manage property assignments, and track background refreshes.

New: Custom Dashboard Abilities guide covers checking snippet status, validating PHP without running it, and previewing snippet replacements or removals before confirmation.

New: Slow Updates Pages guide explains an optional pagination workaround for large networks, including how to work through smaller batches and understand which actions remain global.

Expanded: Cache Control documentation clarifies caching prerequisites, Cloudflare token permissions, and how to verify purge results and retry sites with warnings or failures.

Updated: Google Search Console documentation explains refresh schedules, how to interpret refresh outcomes, and how to recover when an assigned property becomes unavailable.

Updated: Custom Dashboard documentation explains how to preserve unsaved work after a save conflict, what PHP validation checks, and where saved snippets run.

Refreshed: Manage Child Sites guidance clarifies bulk setup and CSV import requirements, SSL settings, automatic sync schedules, and what happens when you remove a site