Changelog

Follow new updates and improvements to MainWP.

April 2nd, 2026

Add-ons

Extension

Early Access

  • Fixed: Applied minor markup and spacing improvements across the interface for a more polished and consistent user experience.

  • Added: Introduced a new "MainWP Control" experiment.

  • Updated: Renamed UI labels and text references from "Lab" to "Labs" for improved terminology consistency.

  • Updated: Reorganized the "Labs" page into accordion sections for "Active Experiments" and "Completed Experiments" to make experimental features easier to browse.

  • Updated: Refreshed links for Google Analytics and Search Console integrations to keep external references current.

January 22nd, 2026

MainWP Core

Dashboard

Early Access

  • Fixed: Navigation menu rendering to prevent ID conflicts and duplicate element references.

  • Fixed: Nonce input handling in setup and posting forms for better form submission reliability.

  • Fixed: An issue with setting the active class to active tab menu item in Manage Plugins and Manage Themes page.

  • Added: Plugin compatibility validation for PHP versions across update and activation workflows.

  • Updated: Restricted backup link generation to authorized users only.

  • Updated: Reorganized site and title column display in updates tables for improved visual consistency across views.

  • Updated: Theme management interface to replace deactivate buttons with lock icons for active themes

  • Updated: Display of active theme status indicators across theme rows

January 22nd, 2026

MainWP Core

Child

Early Access

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

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

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

January 21st, 2026

Add-ons

Extension

Early Access

  • Updated: Documentation links to point to the new docs.mainwp.com URLs

  • Updated: Patchstack integration download and version references to 6.0-er.2.

  • Added: Detailed changelog for Patchstack integration ER releases.

January 16th, 2026

Add-ons

Extension

Early Access

  • Added: New MainWP Help Documentation card and flyin to the Lab page.

January 13th, 2026

Add-ons

Extension

Early Access

  • Fixed: Corrected the previous_status value for the mainwp_child_site_sync_attempt event to ensure accurate status tracking.

December 31st, 2025

Add-ons

Extension

Early Access

  • Added: Added support for the telemetry (PostHog) integration to help track product usage and improve future updates.

  • Added: Added the "Lab" page with "Experiments" cards to make it easier to discover and try early features.