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MainWP Roundup: Celebrating Ten years of MainWP

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 you may have missed. Dennis interviewed at Atarim This article with Dennis is part of the Atarim Founder’s Series and

Todd Jones March 1, 2024 No Comments

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How Jake helps April save Christmas, brings joy to hundreds and honors a legacy in the town of Harmony Hollow

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 weeks, no orders have come through. She was suspicious after a few days. Not a website developer. She was perplexed.

Todd Jones December 18, 2023 No Comments

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Step by Step Guide to Quickly Migrate from ManageWP to MainWP

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 want to control all other websites. We recommend installing it on a fresh WordPress installation. MainWP Child, this plugin needs

Sebastian Moran February 28, 2023 No Comments

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Using GridPane for Self-Managed WordPress Hosting

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 caching. In this example, we used Vultr as a cloud provider and GridPane to manage our server using GridPane. To

Sebastian Moran October 19, 2022 No Comments

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5 reasons to use MainWP to help run your WordPress Web Care Business

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 MainWP in your WordPress Web Care workflow The best tools can be used with MainWP. MainWP calls them extensions. They

Todd Jones October 2, 2022 No Comments

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2021 Year in review MainWP blog

It’s that time of year when we review the year we have had. I am sure you have been doing that already for your own business. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to be in a WordPress Year in Review Live podcast. I had fun talking about what has happened and where we are going. What are some reasons we do a year in review? First, I often find I am surprised to learn some kind of pattern or trend that has happened. It can allow you to double down on the things that are working

Todd Jones December 10, 2021 No Comments

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5 things I learned writing 400 articles at MainWP and there is probably a GIF for that

Well, actually, it is 401 articles—more on that in a moment. I happened to notice this week that I had written 400 articles for MainWP. Some might call that a milestone. There are definitely a lot of articles. The MainWP articles have always been there like a good friend who never leaves. Each week, whether I feel like it or not, the article is waiting for me to write. And so I write them. A lot of things have changed in that time. It looks like the first article was in June of 2016, just about five years ago. For

Todd Jones June 18, 2021 No Comments

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Q&A with Leanne Mitton website designer and MainWP user

Leanne Mitton has been a web designer for 20 years. She began as a co-op student while in high school, working for Norlink. Following college, she took a full-time job with Norlink. In the year 2004, she found herself with the opportunity to purchase Norlink. Since then, she has been synonymous with Norlink. Leanne is a fan of MainWP, which allows her to use the tool she thinks will work best in each situation. She lives in the lovely town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, in Canada. She enjoys spending time with her family, knitting, and looking for places to explore

Todd Jones September 10, 2020 1 Comment

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How MainWP is Different than the cPanel WordPress Manager

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, how much disk usage is being used for that site, and the version of WordPress core that is installed on

Sebastian Moran May 18, 2020 No Comments

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Disable the MainWP Child plugin from Showing the Site Health Info

The site health check feature is a new feature in WordPress 5.2. If you have the MainWP child plugin already hidden from the list of plugins on the child site using the branding extension for MainWP, you may also want to hide the MainWP child plugin from showing on the info tab of the Site Health page. There is now an easy way to hide themes and plugins from showing in the site health info tab, using the Site Health Manager plugin. First, you will need to install and activate the Site Health Manager plugin on all the connected child

Sebastian Moran January 16, 2020 No Comments

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MainWP Roundup: Celebrating Ten years of MainWP

How Jake helps April save Christmas, brings joy to hundreds and honors a legacy in the town of Harmony Hollow

Step by Step Guide to Quickly Migrate from ManageWP to MainWP

Using GridPane for Self-Managed WordPress Hosting

5 reasons to use MainWP to help run your WordPress Web Care Business

2021 Year in review MainWP blog

5 things I learned writing 400 articles at MainWP and there is probably a GIF for that

Q&A with Leanne Mitton website designer and MainWP user

How MainWP is Different than the cPanel WordPress Manager

Disable the MainWP Child plugin from Showing the Site Health Info

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