General Settings

Automatic Daily Sync Time

This feature enables you to set a specific time for the automatic sync action.

Daily Update frequency

Set how often you want your MainWP Dashboard to perform automatic sync.

Timezone

Choose either a city at the same timezone as you or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) offset.

Date Format

Choose one of pre-made formats or create a custom one using standard WordPress Date and Time formatting.

Time Format

Choose one of pre-made formats or create a custom one using standard WordPress Date and Time formatting.

Sidebar position Default Value: Right

Select the sidebar position for your MainWP Dashboard.

Hide the Update Everything button

Enable this option to hide the Update Everything button in the Updates Overview widget.

Widgets columns

Set if you want to display  Overview page widgets in 2 or three columns

Show widgets

Select widgets that you don’t want to see on the MainWP > Overview page.

Show favicons

If enabled, MainWP Dashboard will download the child site favicon while connecting the site and display it in front of the site URL in the Sites table.

Updates Settings

Plugin advanced automatic updates Default Value: Disabled

This option allows you to enable the Auto-updates feature for Trusted Plugins.

Theme advanced automatic updates Default Value: Disabled

This option allows you to enable the Auto-updates feature for Trusted Themes.

WP Core advanced automatic updates Default Value: Disabled

This option allows you to enable the Auto-updates feature for Trusted sites.

Show WordPress language updates Default Value: YES

If enabled, this feature checks if there are available language pack updates on your child sites. The available updates will show in the Update Overview widget on the MainWP > Overview page.

Update Confirmations Default Value: Enabled

• If enabled, this feature will ask you to confirm any Updates that you attempt to perform.
• If set to Disabled, updates will be processed as soon as you click the Update button.
• If set to Disable for single updates, confirmations will be needed only when performing bulk updates. Single instance updates will be processed right away.

Check site HTTP response after update

If enabled, Enable if you want your MainWP Dashboard to check child site header response after updates.

Ignored HTTP response statuses

Select response codes that you want your MainWP Dashboard to ignore.

Require a backup before an update Default Value: NO

When trying to update a plugin, theme, or WordPress core, if enabled, this feature will check if the child site has been backed up in the last seven days. If it is, it will proceed with the update. If not, it will ask you if you want to perform a backup before updating.

Abandoned plugins/themes tolerance Default Value: 365

In case a plugin or theme author didn’t release an update for the set number of days, the plugin/theme will be marked as Possibly Abandoned. The list of possibly abandoned plugins and themes can be found in the Update Overview widget on the MainWP > Overview page.
Please note: MainWP fetches the last updated information from wordpress.org. If a plugin/theme is delisted from wordpress.org, MainWP will no longer be able to detect a plugin/theme as abandoned.

Basic Uptime Monitoring

Enable basic uptime monitoring

Enables the Basic Uptime Monitoring feature that is part of the MainWP Core. It doesn’t integrate into 3rd party services such as Uptime Robot, Sit24x7, or NodePing.

Check interval

Set how often you want your MainWP Dashboard to check your child sites.

Site Health Monitoring

Enable Site Health monitoring

Enables the Site Health Monitoring feature that is part of the MainWP Core. It doesn’t integrate into 3rd party services. It gets data from the WP Core feature designed for monitoring site health.

Site health threshold

Set how often you want your MainWP Dashboard to check your child sites.

Backup Options

Enable Legacy Backups Feature

MainWP is actively moving away from the default backups feature, so it is highly recommended to use some of MainWP Backup Extensions. For new users, this feature is disabled. To use the native backup system, the option needs to be enabled.

Select Primary Backup System Default Value: N/A

MainWP plugin allows you to choose between multiple backup systems and sets the one you prefer. In case you have multiple backup extensions installed, here, you can set the primary one.

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Advanced Settings

A large amount of simultaneous requests and a small delay between requests may cause various issues, such as:

Cross IP Settings

Maximum simultaneous requests Default Value: 4

If too many requests are sent out, they will begin to time out. This causes your child sites to be shown as offline while they are up and running.

Minimum delay between requests Default Value: 200

This option allows you to control the minimum time delay between two requests.

IP Settings

Maximum simultaneous requests per IP Default Value: 1

If too many requests are sent out, they will begin to time out. This causes your child sites to be shown as offline while they are up and running.

Minimum delay between requests to the same IP Default Value: 1000

This option allows you to control the minimum time delay between two requests.

Miscellaneous Settings

Optimize for shared hosting or big networks Default Value: NO

If enabled, MainWP Dashboard will cache updates for faster loading. Because of this, it is required to sync your MainWP Dashboard manually before performing updates.

Verify SSL certificate Default Value: YES

If this option is enabled, MainWP Dashboard will verify the SSL Certificate on your Child Site (if exists) while connecting the Child Site to your MainWP Dashboard. Please note that this is a global setting. The option can be adjusted for individual use for each Child Site addition in the Add New Site form.

MainWP Tools

Force your MainWP Dashboard to establish a new connection

Forces your MainWP Dashboard to reconnect with all your Child Sites.

Start the MainWP Quick Setup Wizard

Press the button to start the MainWP Quick Setup Wizard.

Export child sites to CSV file

This feature will export all your websites to a CSV file that is fully compatible with the MainWP Import Sites feature.

Import child sites

This button will redirect you to the MainWP > Sites > Import Sites section.

Disconnect all child sites

This feature will break the connection with all connected child sites. However, the MainWP Child plugin will stay active on child sites. This feature has been designed to quickly disconnect sites when this is needed for migrating sites to another dashboard.

Delete extensions API Activation data

This will remove the API activation data. It will not affect extension settings.

Turn off the brag button

After performing updates, publishing content, or installing new plugins and themes to your child sites, MainWP Dashboard offers you to tweet info about preformed action quickly. To disable the feature, enable the Turn off brag button option.

Restore all info messages

This button restores all info messages in your MainWP Dashboard and Extensions.