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This year, Dennis asked me to write about my reflections on MainWP in 2025; the idea being that I might bring in a different perspective than that of a founder. It’s an honor that he would trust me with the annual wrap-up. When I think about 2025, I don’t think about one defining announcement or accomplishment. I think about how the product feels now compared to where it was a year ago. I think about how the team continually comes Continue reading the post...

Your management dashboard is infrastructure. Treat it that way. It sits between you and every client site. It touches your updates, your backups, your monitoring, your reports. If you don’t control it, you’re exposed to someone else’s pricing changes, acquisition exits, and roadmap pivots. Agencies are finally asking the question they should have asked years ago: do we own this, or are we renting it? This Is the Operating Reality for Agencies  According to SparkToro’s 2025 State of Digital Agencies Continue reading the post...

Note: This change only affects developers and external collaborators working with our GitHub repositories. Regular MainWP users are not impacted and don’t need to take any action. master → main We’ve updated all MainWP GitHub repositories to use main as the default branch instead of master. This change aligns with current industry standards adopted by GitHub, major open-source projects, and development teams worldwide. Why the change? Git’s default branch naming has evolved over the past few years, with main becoming Continue reading the post...

Over the last couple of years I’ve spent way too much time trying and removing different search solutions for MainWP’s websites. Years. For search. We run multiple properties: the MainWP website, a discourse community forum, blog, knowledgebase, API specific docs and the MainWP Developer website. Each one critical for our users. Each one generating support tickets when people couldn’t find what they needed. And somehow, in 2025, making search actually work across all of them, at a price that made Continue reading the post...

One thing I continue to be surprised by when we run the Site Care Consultant Survey is how few people have email newsletters. You can see from the 2023 survey that most Site Care consultants surveyed do not have an email newsletter. I’m not sure why they don’t and it may be an added question this year. Aside from your website, the one piece of digital asset you fully own is an email newsletter. You can make an argument that Continue reading the post...

In this edition of the MainWP Roundup, we are going to celebrate 10 years of MainWP. We are going to look at articles and podcast appearances from our co-founder Dennis Dornon and Marketing Manager Marc Benzakein. So grab a slice of the MainWP Ten Year celebration cake, a glass of your favorite drink, sit back and ride through this month’s roundup. (choose one below, with a little help from AI) Here is a look at some articles and podcasts that Continue reading the post...

Notice: This article is completely fiction. No part of this shall be considered true. It is a written like a Hallmarkesque Christmas story.  Every year during this time, I like to do something fun for the MainWP Blog. This is that fun article. Enjoy. It’s been a tough year for April, a single mom of two sons in the small town of Harmony Hollow. She has an eCommerce store that hasn’t done very well. In fact, in the past few Continue reading the post...

ManageWP is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for managing multiple sites, whereas MainWP is an open-source, self-hosted solution that prioritizes privacy for you and your clients when handling multiple websites from a centralized dashboard. Learn: Why Privacy for Your Clients is Important! Before moving forward, let’s learn a bit about the MainWP system. MainWP is a set of two plugins, “MainWP Dashboard” & “MainWP Child”. The MainWP Dashboard plugin is installed on a WordPress website from where you Continue reading the post...

GridPane is an easy-to-use and reasonably priced service to self-manage servers. GridPane supports Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Lightsail, UpCloud, and a custom VPS. GridPane makes it simple to create WordPress sites that are highly performant and optimized for solid WordPress performance. In this example, we use a free core account on GridPane to create and manage a server to host a WordPress site. The free core account will use an NGNIX server stack with server-side caching and Redis object Continue reading the post...

Well, hello there. You may be looking at MainWP to manage your websites. Thanks for stopping by! As you look at reasons you might want to get started or even invest in this tool for your business, you may notice that there are tons of features. MainWP has worked hard over the past several years to build collaboration with some of the top tools in the WordPress industry. So, today, I thought I would talk about five reasons to use Continue reading the post...