We are aware of recent developments that are affecting access to WordPress.org resources for certain hosting environments. This situation may impact your ability to manage plugin and theme updates on some of your Child Sites. While MainWP itself is not directly impacted, users with Child Sites in affected hosting environments may experience issues when trying to perform updates through the MainWP Dashboard.

Below, we explain how these changes may affect your MainWP functionality and offer alternative methods to manage your sites.

– Plugin & Theme Installation: If your Child Sites are hosted in an affected environment, you may encounter issues when attempting to install plugins or themes from WordPress.org via the MainWP Dashboard. This typically results in timeout errors due to the hosting environment blocking access to WordPress.org.
– Update Information: Similarly, Child Sites in these hosting environments may be unable to retrieve update information for plugins and themes, meaning MainWP will not report available updates for these sites.
– Error Messages: Users may experience connection timeout errors or failure to retrieve plugin/theme information due to blocked access to WordPress.org.

You can upload plugin and theme ZIP files directly to your Child Sites, which bypasses the need to connect to WordPress.org.

For detailed instructions on how to upload plugins and themes via ZIP files, please refer to our documentation.

At this time, we do not have plans to develop specific solutions for this issue, but we are closely monitoring the situation. As always, we are committed to supporting our users and will keep you informed as new developments occur.

MainWP’s open-source nature empowers you to customize your dashboard and adapt to these changes in a way that suits your needs.