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Introducing API Backups Extension
Important Updates
Dennis Dornon

🥳 Backup & Restore Your Child Sites from within the MainWP Dashboard

During our 9th Anniversary Week, we have launched several exciting features, including MainWP 4.4, Cache Control, SSL Monitor, Jetpack Protect, Jetpack Scan, and Database Updater Extensions. Today, I am thrilled to introduce one of the most exciting features, “API Backups” (Beta). 😍 The “API Backups” Extension is designed to simplify the backup and restoration process for your Child Sites directly from your MainWP Dashboard. Easily backup, view, and restore individual Child Sites, and perform bulk backups for multiple Child Sites. With this beta Extension, you can create backups for your Child Sites hosted on Cloudways, GridPane, Vultr, Linode, and DigitalOcean.

Clean Up WordPress Site
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Clean Up WordPress Site for Better Performance

Now is the time of the year to clean up WordPress site for better performance and security. One of the easiest ways would be to remove unused plugins and themes. It is very easy for a site to have several inactive plugins on it. This could happen when plugins have been replaced with better-coded plugins, but the original plugins were not deleted on the site. Also if you have been testing plugins on a site for a specific feature but then the plugin is left on the site and not deleted. Why Remove Inactive Plugins? Removing inactive plugins that are

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to remove UpdraftPlus data on your sites

If you are moving from using UpdraftPlus for site backups to use either Time Capsule or WPVivid then this will cover how to remove any leftover data from the plugin. Compared to more recent backup plugins UpdraftPlus can cause some performance issues. If you were using UpdraftPlus local storage method then the folder you will need to look for would be in; wp-content/updraft Delete all of the files in that folder along with the folder itself. You could also delete the backup files in the UpdraftPlus backup settings if you wanted to run it that way. The UpdraftPlus will also

wpvivid backup plugin
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

WPVivid Backup Plugin launches extension for the MainWP dashboard

Earlier this year, WPVivid Backup Plugin, a new WordPress backup plugin, launched an extension for the MainWP dashboard. The extension helps customers who use WPVivid operate their backup system within the MainWP dashboard. Currently, the extension is free. The team at WPVivid plans on releasing a pro version of their plugin this month. The plugin was released in April of 2019 and currently has 121,441 downloads, including 9,470 in the last seven days. The plugin has 131 ratings in the WordPress repository, with 126 being five stars. Earlier this Fall, I was able to chat with Nicholas, the lead developer,

BACKUPS WITH MAINWP
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

How to automate backups using MainWP without losing sleep and your wit

We’ve all been there. Panic sets in. What will the customer think? How did this happen? Will I ever recover that website? Will I have to recreate everything? You think, “Well, make some coffee because it is going to be an all-nighter.” Blood rushes throughout your body, you feel flushed and you can feel the adrenaline rushing through your veins. You think, “Did I have a backup?” What if you don’t have a backup? Your server crashes, someone hacks the site, and you are sitting on top a pile of negative emotions. Well, its time to find a permanent solution.

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