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WordPress contains a huge number of filters in its core and knowing which filters to use will allow you to be able to make a number of changes on your child sites without having to use any plugins for those changes. MainWP offers a very solid extension to be able to save and execute useful code snippets to all of your connected child sites. In order to be able to use the code snippets then follow the docs, on how Continue reading the post...

There is a brand new all-in-one marketing automation, personalization platform that can be used for WordPress and WooCommerce sites called Growmatik. First, you will need to signup and create an account in Growmatik. After you have created an account it will guide you through what type of site you want to connect into Growmatik, the plugin to install on your child site, then you will need to authorize and connect your site to Growmatik. To get started using Growmatik make Continue reading the post...

Conversions improvements on your child sites is going to increase sales if your site is using an e-commerce plugin like WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads. A solid plugin to be able to add social proof to your child sites is WPfomify. WPfomify has a large level of features and is very easy to use and setup. WPfomify has a huge range of integrations that it will work with like WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Gravity Forms, GiveWP, Zapier, ConvertKit, LeardDash, and Continue reading the post...

cPanel offers a very basic WordPress manager for being able to in a limited form create or manage your existing WordPress sites within cPanel. The WordPress manager provided by cPanel will allow you to be able to list the WordPress sites that exist on your cPanel account. Features that the WordPress manager in cPanel offers is to manage the existing sites on your cPanel account. The basic setting options which display within the WordPress Manager will be the site URL, Continue reading the post...

WordPress 5.5 introduced a new automated update feature for plugins and themes. If you are already using MainWP to professionally handle plugin and theme updates for your client sites, then we suggest limiting your clients ability from setting plugins or themes to be automatically updated. Your clients hired you to update and test plugins before being updated and letting them set updates automatically defeats that purpose. If you need examples of why automatic plugin and theme updates are not a Continue reading the post...

NitroPack is a service with an integration plugin for WordPress which will improve your site’s load times. NitroPack has a number of pricing plans you can start with a free plan which includes up to 500MB of resources storage and up to 200 page optimizations per month. If you go up a plan to the $19 per month priced plan it includes 1GB of resources storage and up to 20,000 page optimizations per month. After you have installed and activated Continue reading the post...

Keeping your child sites secure is always worth taking the time to setup now more than ever. There is a new easy-to-use plugin for 2FA (two-factor authentication), and it is called WP 2FA. The plugin is from the same developers as WP Security Audit Log. After you have installed and activated the WP 2FA plugin on your child site, you can quickly go through the setup wizard. The recommended method will be to use the Google Authenticator application available for Continue reading the post...

If you need a simple self-hosted project management plugin for being able to deal with client projects a solid option is to use the WP Project Manager plugin. After you have installed and activated the plugin on your site it will add a new admin menu; Project Manager The first thing you will need to do is create a project once you have created a project you can add tasks, milestones, and even discussions. One of the free integrations is Continue reading the post...

If you are looking for a free solid CDN option for your child sites then one of the best options out there is Statically. Statically is powered by Fastly, Cloudflare, BunnyCDN, CDN77 which means it has a higher number of PoPs that will be serving the site assets. Statically now has a plugin for WordPress which is very easy to setup. After you have installed and activated the Statically plugin you will need to go ahead and add your email Continue reading the post...

We are standing on the edge of a gorge looking off into the future of 2020 in the WordPress industry. Look closely. What do you see? I can see a few things, and I have outlined them in this article. Am I right? Am I wrong? We will only know this time next year. I think most of these things will happen, but it might take more than 12 months. So today, I bring to you my almost, kind of, Continue reading the post...