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Self-hosted WordPress management platform for updates, backups, monitoring, reporting, and client-site operations.
Overview
MainWP is a self-hosted WordPress management platform for administering multiple sites from a separate WordPress dashboard. Through the MainWP Dashboard and a Child plugin installed on managed sites, users can coordinate updates, backups, monitoring, security checks, reporting, client management, and extension-based workflows while retaining control of the management environment. It is particularly relevant to freelancers and agencies that prefer a self-hosted alternative to a fully hosted management service. The setup requires maintaining the central dashboard and securing its connections, and some capabilities depend on paid extensions or third-party integrations. WordPress.org currently reports 20,000+ active installations for the MainWP Dashboard plugin. The separate MainWP Child connector has a much larger install count, but combining those figures would misrepresent the number of management dashboards, so WPResources records the dashboard metric only.
Best for
Managing, backing up, securing, or auditing WordPress sites.