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RankMath Extension

Closed

It seems like more and more people are disenfranchised with Yoast and attracted to other less expensive SEO options, such as RankMath. Would it be possible to get a Rankmath extension?

Broken Link Checker Extension (bring it back!)

Open

Bring back the Broken Link Checker Extension that was supported in Main WP until 2020. This is a key feature to centralize link checking for Word Press sites and all major competitors have this feature built in. There have been a few discussions about this in the Support Forums for Main WP and they are here: https://meta.mainwp.com/t/bring-back-broken-link-checker/2036 https://meta.mainwp.com/t/broken-links-checker/2093 https://meta.mainwp.com/t/broken-links-extension/439 There is a non-supported version on GitHub based on the 2020 code base (https://github.com/7thcirclegit/mainwp-broken-links-checker-extension) but it has a major issue where a list of URLs is not properly returned. I am currently having a PHP Developer look at fixing this so it might be super easy to include this in the code code base. Here is what the 2020 version looks like within MainWP currently (keeping in mind that a list of URLs is NOT returned). Main Overview Screen: https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQuxyv9G Extension Overview Dash Screen: https://share.getcloudapp.com/llu6P4ek Site Overview Screen: https://share.getcloudapp.com/WnuqQEnE URLs Screen (not populated b/c data missing): https://share.getcloudapp.com/kpu4XmqP So, in short - this is KEY functionality that any Web dashboard should have. I want it badly enough that I am paying a Dev to see if we can get the 2020 version fully functional but ideally this should be included in the main paid code base (Pro) and maybe even part of the free version that is supported long-term. If the Dev I am paying gets this working again I will provide the fixed version to the community so we really just need someone to take over/work with this on a more permanent basis. FYI - on the child site side it relies on the very popular broken link checker plugin from WPMUDEV (700K+ active installs) that is well supported here - https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/. Please up-vote this request and let's get a great/enhanced broken link checker extension back on the Main WP dashboard.

GTMetrix Extension

Open

PerformanceNew Extension

Due the great changes that GPS is incorporating, it would be great to add other tools like GTmetrix that are more neutral thn GPS Thanks for considering this extension

Update Woocommerc DB from MainWP Dashboard

Completed

Core EnhancementNew Feature

Hi, after updating WooCommerce sometimes its DB needs to be updated as well. Is it possible to get the info that the DB needs to be updated and/or add this update option as well?

Custom notes for individual clients in reports

Open

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

This thought came from Brett Coleman responding to a video overview I did on the two client report extensions here. He wrote: “Do you have any suggestions for if you wanted to make a special note for each individual client in the report for that specific month? I may have overlooked it.” I certainly would use it.

SEOPress Extension

Completed

AdministrativeContentNew Extension

Hey guys I see you have an extension for Yoast SEO, but I’m pretty sure SEOPress is really better than Yoast lol Can you please take care and add an awesome addon for SEOPress? I believe reports and suggestions (also perfomance) it’s a great way to take care.

Scheduled plugin updates

Open

Core EnhancementNew Feature

A very important feature would be to have the possibility to schedule plugin upgrades. Updgrading during the day is not a good thing, because during the update visitors get blocked. So it would be great to have the possibility to schedule updates for the night. Perfect it would be when beeing able to do this for a single plugin, because I check each update before doing it on all my customers websites.

WordFence additional tokens for Reports

Open

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

Extend WordFence tokens for Pro Reports to summarize how many attacks were blocked. As far as I can tell we only have the option to summarize total scans.

Add .htaccess to code snippets

Open

AdministrativeFeature Enhancement

That would be fantastic! I have a number of htaccess changes I make to speed websites up on my server. Would be great if I could do them from MainWP.

Favorite plugins direct update

Open

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

Hi, It would be great to be able to have an automatic update function in the favorite plugin part. I wish I could upload my favorite plugin with its license attached and that it automatically updates all the time. So when I have a new site to install, i can just pull the last version of my favorite plugins instead of an old one without licence that i still need to register and update on the new site.

Add Uptime Kuma support for AUM

Open

Hello there, not sure if it’s possible or not but Uptime Kuma is a really awesome open source service for uptime monitoring and status page. I’m using it on Docker and I’m trying now to replace NodePing for my MainWP client reports.

Elementor Theme Builder Extension

Open

ContentNew Extension

It would be great to have the option to distribute Templates from the Elementor Theme Builder to all of my child sites. I think this would be a great new feature if this isn’t possible yet.

GA Extension - Support for GA4 properties

Completed

Visitor DataExtension EnhancementFeature Enhancement

Include full support for the GA4 properties. Update the Google Analytics API library.

Google SiteKit Extension

Open

Visitor DataNew Extension

Hello Tribe I hope everyone doing well. Since Google is actively developing SiteKit and offer PageSpeed, GA, GTM and other integrations at this moment so i was wondering, would it be possible for MainWP to integrate somehow with SiteKit so we could get rid of one or two plugins from the child sites ?

Pro Client Reports: Report Tokens for iThemes Security

Completed

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

It would be very helpful if we could also document the use of iThemes Security in the reports. Unfortunately, there are no tokens yet. Tokens for the last malware scan (day, time, status) would be important. In addition, a summary of all lockouts and brut force attacks in the report period would be great.

Ignore Update - but only for this version

Planned

Core EnhancementFeature Enhancement

Hello, I would love to be able to ignore the current update for WordPress, plugins and themes. When a new version comes out, I would like to see it re-added to my list of updates. Use case: I didn’t update my sites to WordPress 5.5, but I waited for at least 5.5.1. I didn’t update to Elementor 3.0 on my sites, but I waited for the first minor updates. Thanks.

Introduce a "Website Owner" feature and consolidate the redundant token systems

Completed

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

We need to get rid of that old redundant token system. Currently, we have “Boilerplate tokens”, “Client report tokens” and “Client Report Pro tokens”. So MWP requires us to actually enter the same data three times. And if we have the same owner for different websites even more often… What we need is the following: Introduce a “website owner” content type We can associate different websites to the same owner We have a consistent set of tokens which can be used in any extension that uses variables. Please give this a much-needed overhaul as this has been discussed already several years ago. Such little things really can make a difference.

Pro Reports - Custom name for PDF file

Completed

I would find it very handy if the download file of a Pro Report could be given an adjustable name or, for example, be named after the name of the site / customer

Cookie policy and GDPR Extension

Open

AdministrativeNew Extension

Hi, I think it would be very usefull an extension to manage Cookie policy and GDPR in all child sites. Everytime there is a change in the law or I add a new cookie I have to manage them one by one. I’ll save lot of time being able to manage all of them from MainWP. Do you have in mind to develop something similar? Thanks and regards,

Vulnerability scans in the report

Completed

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

The security section of the WP Care Pro Report needs some attention! The only options are to provide the results of a sucuri site scan, which we know is something that cannot be automated. If I need to run weekly scans to make anything populate in this section I’m paying someone to go and click all the ‘scan’ buttons for all our sites which is just not something that is happening. We need the ability to either show the stats from the built-in vulnerability checker which uses wpscan.com 2 or to use some other security system like Shield Security Pro, or any others.

Notes in pro report plugin

Open

Hi, Currently it's possible to write private notes for each websites registered in MainWP. It would be nice to have an other kind of notes (public notes ?). That notes could be displayed in the pro report plugin. I like to add some custom informations in the reports to my customers.

Notification bar / Message in WordPress dashboard

Open

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

Hi all, Probably easy feature to implement, because footer text, and branding already exists, but I think having a notification banner (custom message), at the very top of Wordpress dashboard for other admins, would be great feature. This could be a great and easy way to communicate and warn other admins about specific path or action that you took, for example why specific plugin is disabled, this plugin release is unsafe, or why this section is disabled etc. You may not be the only admin in WordPress, so having this warning banner at the very top, will help you do your job better, without anyone messing things up. Please Vote!

Disable Sites from being Maintained

Completed

I think we need to have a way to disable specific sites from being maintained by MainWP without completely disconnecting the site in case we want to reconnect it at a later stage. This is good to manage clients who are actively paying for their site to be maintained.

Failed Updates Log & Email Notifications

Open

Core EnhancementNew Feature

Courtesy Feature Request via Support Channels Failed Normal/Trusted Updates Log & Email Notifications [Scenario] Trusted updates usually update automatically. However, sometimes certain anomalies may prevent this that is out of the control of MainWP Dashboard. “What has happened to me in the past though is that the trusted updates didn’t install, and I didn’t get any notification about this. It wasn’t until months later that I discovered the lack of updates, as I don’t look at my site that often.” [Suggestion] Provide a “Failed To Update” Log and Email when a trusted/normal plugin or theme update didn’t update as it should. Giving the opportunity to take action to get it fixed right away.

WP Optimize Extension

Open

PerformanceNew Extension

From v.3 WP Optimize provides caching. I have tested it on several websites and it works pretty well, even starting with the free version. The premium unlocks Lazy Load as well. For site we now can do a few very important things just with 1 plugin - database cleaning and optimization, caching, minify, etc. I would like to ask for considering including WP Optimize extension for mainWP. Thanks.

WPVulnDB Automatic Queue For Continuance

Open

SecurityExtension Enhancement

Since the vulnerability database began charging for API access with only 50 free per day, the value of the extension has really been limited. It would be nice if a feature could be added so that we could enter the number of API requests we get per day (50 for free or some other for those who pay), and have the extension stop after exhausting each of those API calls and then queue up the remaining ones to begin on the following day when the credit is refreshed. This would allow the system to ‘rotate’ through sites each day as API credits were available and provide at least some level of scanning instead of nothing. Another options would be to be able to include this as part of the maintenance extension so users could just set maintenance tasks for each site they wish to scan and have them run on different days when the API credit is refreshed.

WP Vivid Staging & Dev Environment Pro

Closed

AdministrativeBackupNew Extension

As there is already an extension for the WPVivid backup plugin It would be great to be able to manage the WPvivid staging plugin from the MainWP dashboard. As the existing staging extension is only able to control WP Staging Pro

Squirrely SEO with Dev Kit

Open

AdministrativeNew Extension

Would like to be able to install Dev kit plug-in directly from Main WP and manage sites

Update from dashboard tigger backup auto before update feature (WPvivid/WP Time Capsule/updraftplus)

Open

When you launch an update on the child sites from the dashboard, it triggers the "backup before update" feature present in WPvivid, WP Time Capsule or Updraftplus plugins. This would allow to rollback easily in case of problem !

Security Scan extended

Planned

SecurityCore EnhancementFeature Enhancement

Is it possible to extend the Security Scan for each website? There are a couple of checks already in place. I would like to add one to remove the license.txt since it’s next to the readme.html, this should not be so difficult? Or is it already possible for me to add this to the database and make it work like that? Thank you. Andy

More detail on plugin updates

Open

Core EnhancementFeature Enhancement

I love MainWP, but I am having one issue. I manage multiple sites, and having the ability to update all plugins can be a real time saver. The issue I have is when a particular plugin crashes while updating. MainWP just sits there without telling me anything. Sometimes, like today, on a couple of sites I was testing this on, all of the plugins updated, but the “updating” window never reported 100%, and didn’t close automatically. If it would simply report that “the xxx plugin cannot be updated”, or show that each plugin has updated in the progress bar. Something like that. Also, when updating plugins on a site’s WordPress dashboard, it states that (according to the author) “this update is 100% compatible with xxx”. If MainWP could report that as well, I could avoid attempting to update those plugins.

Add Patchstack as a security integration

Open

Patchstack offers for free (99 sites per account) Component detection Identify vulnerabilities Real-time threat alerts Actionable security suggestions For most this can server as a great free alternative (without wpscans 50 api call limit) solution for detecting vulnerabilities with Plugins and sites. See their vulnerability database as well here, similar to wpscan: https://patchstack.com/database/ For serious users they offer much more including features that rival Wordfence and Sucuri and some that go further such as virtual patching. Having an integration into Mainwp for vulnerability monitoring and tokens for things like the Pro Report would be stellar.

Pro Reports tokens for listing abandoned plugins

Completed

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

The dashboard of each website shows the list of abandoned plugins by the date range I set in MainWP settings. Is there a way to list these plugins via Pro Reports tokens on my reports? I want to have a section that says something like “These plugins do not show updates in over ### days”. Then I can provide more info about why that is a problem and so forth.

Sort sites by nice name instead of domain name

Completed

Core EnhancementFeature Enhancement

Hi there, I was wondering what people would think if we changed the default site sorting to use the nice name we entered alphabetically instead of the currently used domain name characters. Even ever I’m looking for a website called something with A, say Apothecary XZY, I would expect to find it high up in the list, if the domain starts with a www. subdomain though it does show up under W, which defeats the purpose of alphabetical ordering. Since my custom sorting always gets x’d when the session ends, this is doing my NUT in by now ;o) Stay safe out there, SUP

Automatic Cache Clearing

Completed

Performance

Initial Group: WP-Rocket, Breeze, LiteSpeed & Cloudflare

Export Functionality from "Manage Plugin" section

Open

To improve our record-keeping, an option to export the list of plugins directly from the "Manage Plugin" section would be greatly appreciated.

Combining the "Manage Plugin" functionality with the Non-Main WP plugin changes

Open

Combining the "Manage Plugin" functionality with the Non-Main WP plugin changes would streamline workflow further. Having access to the history of logs within the "Manage Plugin" section would be a valuable addition. So the Audit Plugins can be done from one dashboard

Lighthouse - avg scores over time

Open

Is it possible to get an average of lighthouse scores over time for client reports? Lighthouse scores can vary from one check to the next so it would be nice to take an average. Otherwise, 1 outlying low/high score can be misleading and not representative of the website's avg score. GTmetrix, for example, does this if you create a website monitor. It checks every X hours/days/etc. and then reports an average in a weekly email. Either a fixed X days (e.g. 7 days) average or the ability for us to control how many days/weeks/months to average would be helpful. This average should be available as a token for client reports and possibly also used in the dashboard screens instead of showing the most recent scan.

Fathom Analytics Extension

Completed

Administrative

An Extension for Fathom Analytics https://usefathom.com using their API for privacy instead of Google Ananlytics

Update Elementor DB from MainWP Dashboard

Completed

Hi, after updating Elementor sometimes its DB needs to be updated as well. Is it possible to get the info that the DB needs to be updated and/or add this update option as well?

Add ga:users and ga:newUsers to Google Analytics

Completed

AdministrativeVisitor DataExtension Enhancement

Hi, I have multiple clients who want to see not just sessions (“website visits”) and % new sessions (“new visits”) as you’ve called them, but the actual number of site visitors (ga:Users) and of those, who are new (ga:newUsers). Is it possible to add these in as tokens, so those of us that would like to give our clients the extra data can customise a report template with them? If anyone has got these working, would you mind sharing the code please? I can’t get my head around the Analytics API well enough to custom code these right now! Thanks, Emma

Pending Updates Token

Completed

AdministrativeNew Extension

Hello All, This is a fabulous plugin that has enhanced my agency in a fantastic way. Not all my clients pay their fees on time, so there are times when no updates/maintenance are done on their website. I would still want to give them a report of the maintenance that is pending for their website (this should encourage them to pay the fee), however, I do not see any pending updates token. Is there any plan to add tokens that show pending updates or is there a way to create these via customization? I look forward to your response.

Parent Themes should be locked by default

Completed

Core EnhancementFeature Enhancement

TL;DR The default ability to easily delete a Parent Theme can completely break a site. Shouldn’t be so easy to do. I was quite shocked that MainWP would happily allow me to delete the parent of my active child theme. Working in MainWP allows for sweeping changes, and it’s my contention that any parent of the active Child Theme should not be removable. They should be locked by default and, if one really wants to remove it for some unimaginable reason, one should have to affirm multiple times.

Search Console data in reports

Open

Hi The behavior of users in Google Search can be seen perfectly in the GSC. It would be even more ingenious to show this data to the customer on a monthly reported basis. Thumbs up if anyone is interested.

Robot.alp integration

Open

Please, integrate Robot.alp as a monitoring tool, this is a great one! https://robotalp.com/

Freeze First Column in Site View

Completed

Add the ability to "freeze" the first column in the site view like you can in a normal spreadsheet. The issue is that if you have many extensions installed you can't see which site info you are looking at if you scroll to the right. Freeze Left Page (like a spreadsheet) https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nuzd0Eq You lose which site you are looking at when you scroll https://share.getcloudapp.com/yAuKGZDb

Multiple Uptime Monitors for a single Child site

Open

AdministrativeExtension Enhancement

Did a client ever call you to say their website was “down”, but Uptime Monitor didn’t detect it? The reason is often an agressive caching strategy where the homepage is full cached, but as soon as you try to log in the site, or use the cart on an e-commerce site, the experience breaks down. For this reason, I would like to have the ability to add multiple Uptime Monitors for a single site, so I could elect to monitor not only the homepage, but also the shop, the login page, to ensure over-agressive caching is not masking a problem with the rest of the site. Today, we can create multiple HTTP monitors, but only the one for the Homepage is showing up on a site’s dashboard screen in MainWP. In an ideal world, we would be able to associate additional Monitors to a given site, and they would all show up on that child’s dashboard in MainWP. Anyone interested… anyone? … anyone?

Search for MISSING plugins feature needed!

Completed

Core EnhancementFeature Enhancement

The plugin manager search functionality is great, but it would be even better if admins could search whether a plugin is missing, rather than present. All it would require is a tick box such as: ‘Display sites NOT meeting the above search criteria’. Based on the results, admins can then take action and install the plugin on the sites where the plugin is missing.

Notes in report pro

Open

Hi, Currently it is possible to write private notes. It would be nice to have an other kind of notes (public notes ?) that could be displayed in the pro report plugin. In reports I send to customers, I would like to add some custom informations/notes. Regards.

List of Plugins Usage

Completed

I'd like a list of all plugins across all sites I can see the plugin list per site by going to each site, but I need a list of all the plugins so I can see which plugins are used on which sites. This will help me manage my licenses as well. Ideally the list would be an expandable (tree) list of the sites using the plugin with a count of the total sites. Also Note: Listing the plugins for the sites horizontally across the page is a horrible way to show them. I can't make my screen wide enough. At the minimum, enable horizontal scroll. Ideally, this too would be a tree.