MainWP Child establishes a secure link between your WordPress sites and your self-hosted MainWP Dashboard, simplifying site management.
As of April 2026, MainWP Child is a WordPress update plugin with 700K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 70 reviews. It has been downloaded 42M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 47% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Enable jQuery Migrate Helper.
The MainWP Child Plugin securely connects the WordPress sites you want to manage to the MainWP Dashboard.
The MainWP Child plugin creates a secure connection between your WordPress sites and your self-hosted MainWP Dashboard, enabling you to efficiently manage WP installations from a single, centralized location.
With MainWP Child and the MainWP Dashboard, you can update themes, plugins, and WordPress core across all connected sites, perform backups and security scans, manage posts, pages, users, and comments in bulk, and integrate with popular plugins like WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, and Wordfence.
The MainWP Dashboard also offers features for cost tracking and client management, making it an all-in-one solution for agencies and freelancers looking to manage WP sites efficiently. The functio…
MainWP saves me hours of time every week, very thankful for your awesome plugin.
Nice plugin. Useful.
A plugin that meets our expectations. A very nice plugin for managing multiple websites. Thank you
I installed this plugin on each of the sites I manage to connect them to my self-hosted MainWP Dashboard. Now I can perform updates and monitor my sites from a single location. It saves a bunch of time and it makes management simple and easy.
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| WordPress | 6.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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