Updates for Reliability, Activity Tracking and Workflow Improvements Across MainWP Core – Week of April 28, 2026

Most updates can look minor at a glance, but they directly impact how dependable your day-to-day site management actually is.

This round of MainWP Core updates focuses on the areas you actually notice when managing multiple sites: update handling, dashboard performance, and activity clarity. We also started rolling out early improvements that tighten common workflows and reduce friction in routine tasks. Alongside that, several extensions received targeted updates to keep permissions, monitoring, and reporting aligned with how agencies are actually operating today.

Product Updates

We released several updates across MainWP Core and add-ons last week, with a focus on reliability, clearer activity reporting, better permission handling, and day-to-day usability improvements.

MainWP Core

MainWP Dashboard 6.0.10
Release improves update handling, site loading performance, and monitor data processing. The overall result should be a smoother and more reliable Dashboard experience during regular site management.

MainWP Child 6.0.9
MainWP Child now handles WordPress auto-update activity more clearly in Network Activity. Auto-updates should no longer appear as being triggered by an “Unknown User“, making activity logs easier to understand and audit.

We also published early releases for upcoming Core improvements:

MainWP Dashboard 6.0.11-er.1 and 6.0.11-er.2
These early releases add several practical workflow improvements, including the ability to duplicate operational costs and quickly copy post or page permalinks and IDs. They also improve bulk update performance, make ignored core updates easier to access, and include refinements for overview accuracy, server info exports, previews, empty states, cache behavior, and API flexibility.

MainWP Child 6.0.10-er.1
MainWP Child plugin update improves module loading accuracy and helps background sync better detect and report outdated plugins and themes.

Extension Updates

Google Search Console 6.0.2
This update improves permission handling for property assignments, with closer alignment to Team Control access rules.

Matomo 5.1.2
The Matomo Integration also received improved property assignment permissions, helping access stay consistent with Team Control add-on settings.

Advanced Uptime Monitor 5.3.5
Latest Advanced Uptime Monitor add-on update improves compatibility, refines UI consistency, and tightens access to monitoring data based on permitted sites and team permissions.

Documentation Updates

The Check for Abandoned Plugins and Themes guide now clearly explains that abandoned plugin and theme data depends on the Select data to sync options in Advanced Settings, helping you make sure both scheduled checks and manual site syncs keep that information up to date.

The MainWP Documentation also picked up a visual refresh with the new 2026 MainWP logo now shown across both light and dark themes.

The MainWP Lighthouse Extension guide received a small usability polish, with cleaner Google API key setup steps and corrected screenshot formatting to make the walkthrough easier to follow.

Several existing guides, including Matomo Extension, Termageddon for MainWP, Patchstack Extension, Database Updater Extension, and Direct Link Tracking Explained, received light copy and formatting improvements to smooth out step-by-step instructions and fix small display issues.