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New Features in WordPress in 2022

With WordPress 5.9 on track to be released on the 29th January 2022, it will bring with it Full Site Editing (FSE). In order to be able to use the full site editing feature in WordPress, you will need to be using a block-based theme. If you want to watch a preview of new features coming to WordPress then you should watch the State of the Word for 2022 from the 14th of December. Full Site Editing Full site editing will allow you to directly edit all parts of the site from templates to how the site looks. It will

Sebastian Moran December 28, 2021 No Comments

Tips & Tricks

Easily Removing the Bloat in WordPress

WordPress by default can enable a number of back-end and front-end features which can lead to performance issues but there are code snippet and plugin methods to easily remove the bloat. MainWP has an extension for being able to save and then run code snippets on all connected child sites. There are a vast number of code snippets that will allow you to remove front-end and back-end bloat in WordPress and a number of plugins on the MainWP GitHub code snippets repository. A number of code snippets are also posted on the MainWP community you can filter by tags to

Sebastian Moran December 21, 2021 No Comments

Tips & Tricks

How to Restore the Widget Editor back to use the Classic Editor

WordPress version 5.8 was released on the 20th of July which made a change for the block editor to be used as the default editor when working with widgets. The block editor on widgets can be much slower to load and will load more requests in wp-admin so it can make it a much slower experience. When using the block editor on widgets it can be as many as 231 requests and take 2.5 seconds to load. Using the classic editor when editing widgets will be 83 requests and 1.2 seconds to load. There are two methods to be able

Sebastian Moran July 23, 2021 No Comments

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How to use hCaptcha on your Child Sites

There is a pretty new captcha service and it is called hCaptcha. Even better is that hCaptcha is a drop-in replacement for reCaptcha and making the change on a site is very fast and easy to do, also hCaptcha is free to use. The service is privacy-centric and you can track the number of times that hCaptcha has been used to protect your site. In order to be able to use hCaptcha on your child site, you will need to sign up for an account. Once you have created an account you can then view the site key and account

Sebastian Moran July 6, 2020 No Comments

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Blocking Bad Bots on your Child Site using Booter Plugin

Like something out of a sci-fi movie, bots will inevitably hit your site to index it, trying to add products to cart and create spam accounts if you are using WooCommerce on a child site. One of the easiest ways to block bot crawlers on your child site is to use the Booter plugin to boot those bots. After you have installed and activated the plugin, it will add a new sub-menu in wp-admin on the child site. Settings > Booter – Bots & Crawler Manager Which will take you to the general option settings of the plugin: General Bad

Sebastian Moran January 13, 2020 1 Comment

WordPress Business

Where will WordPress be in 2019?

What new projects would you want to try to use in WordPress? Common current examples of using WordPress for different site builds include brochure sites or e-commerce stores. You could also use WordPress for different sites types, using WordPress as a headless application, selling download licenses if you had a store which sold downloadable products. Both Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce could be used for selling download products (with a license needed). Other possible uses include using WordPress for powering a film festival site, to sell tickets, or for an events site where tickets are sold. Those type of WordPress

Sebastian Moran December 10, 2018 1 Comment

MainWP How To's

How to make sure your child sites are ready for WordPress 5.0

With the WordPress 5.0 release less than two weeks away from being shipped, the release is going to be pushed back to be later than November 27, 2018. You need to make sure that your child sites have been updated to deal with the new version of WordPress. The major changes being the new default Gutenberg block editor. WordPress 5.0 release data has been pushed back due to certain issues, with issues found in the beta, and release candidate being delayed till 22nd November, to warrant more time for beta testing a major WordPress update. The Gutenberg default block editor

Sebastian Moran November 8, 2018 11 Comments