February 24th, 2026

MainWP Core

Child

MainWP Child 6.0

  • Added: New maintenance options to selectively clean expired transients or remove all transients from the site.

  • Added: Password policy management to set and enforce password expiration rules.

  • Added: Extended post retrieval to support ID-based filtering for more targeted synchronization.

  • Added: Caching for recently updated custom posts with automatic invalidation on post changes, and included cached data in sync payloads to improve performance.

  • Added: Support for the upcoming Patchstack Integration for MainWP.

  • Added: Support for the feature update that allows users to delete plugins that are active while respecting sequence of deactivating first and deleting after in background.

  • Added: Helper method to detect MainWP-specific admin pages.

  • Added: Created a dedicated MainWP_Child_Assets class to handle asset loading.

  • Updated: Enhanced plugin update processing to include WordPress and PHP compatibility details for both standard and premium plugin updates when compatibility checks are available.

  • Updated: Improved error message handling for better compatibility with the PostHog (MainWP Dashboard Telemetry) integration.

  • Updated: Disabled cron event tracking as the default value for Sites Changes logging to reduce unnecessary log entries.

  • Updated: Stopped parsing the readme.txt file for version requirements and switched to reading from the main plugin file for improved reliability.

  • Updated: Restructuring the plugin initialization to only load necessary code based on the current request context.

  • Updated: Delaying the loading of admin-specific code until it's actually needed.

  • Updated: Implementing conditional loading of CSS and JavaScript files only on MainWP-specific pages.

  • Updated: Separated asset registration from enqueuing for better performance.

  • Updated: Optimized jQuery UI loading to only load when needed.

  • Fixed: Fixed saving of Solid Security plugin settings.

  • Fixed: Multiple PHP warnings and notices to ensure cleaner operation.

  • Fixed: Missing user information for certain objects and events in the Sites Changes feature.

  • Fixed: An issue with syncing Sites Changes that occurred on some server configurations.

  • Fixed: Corrected Child plugin's inability to load jQuery libraries on the "Clone/Restore" page due to incorrect conditional logic.

  • Fixed: Resolved Child plugin error when attempting to load non-existent assets.

  • Dev: Updated PHPSecLib package to their latest versions to maintain security and compatibility standards.