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What You’ll Learn

  • Database cleanup options and features
  • Performing maintenance on multiple sites
  • Scheduling automated maintenance tasks
  • Optimizing database tables
Extension Add-on - This add-on provides standalone functionality within MainWP Dashboard. No third-party plugins required.
MainWP Maintenance Extension allows you to clean your child site’s databases. With just a few clicks, you can easily delete all post revisions, auto drafts, trash posts, spam comments and remove non-essential content from multiple databases at once. That’s not all; our intuitive scheduling system will enable you to schedule multiple tasks and have your sites cleaned regularly. The MainWP Plugin will automatically perform maintenance as per your instructions. Another great feature that this extension provides is Database optimization; with just a click of a button, you can quickly optimize all your child site databases to reduce storage space and increase I/O efficiency.

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Maintenance Features

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Delete post revisions

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Delete auto-draft posts

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Delete trash posts

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Delete spam comments

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Delete pending comments

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Delete trash comments

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Delete tags with 0 posts associated

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Delete categories with 0 posts associated

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Optimize database tables

The “OPTIMIZE TABLE” command reorganizes the physical storage of table data and associated index data. This helps to reduce storage space and improve I/O efficiency when accessing your WordPress database—the exact changes made to each table depending on the storage engine used by that table. Read more about the optimize command… Before doing any maintenance jobs, we highly recommend creating your child sites databases backup.

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Perform Maintenance

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Login in to your MainWP Dashboard

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Go to the MainWP > Add-ons > Maintenance page

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Go to the Maintenance tab

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Locate the Maintenance Options section

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Select tasks that you want to perform

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Select wanted child sites

Select wanted child sites
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Click the Perform Maintenance button

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Schedule Maintenance

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Login in to your MainWP Dashboard

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Go to the MainWP > Add-ons > Maintenance page

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Go to the Schedules tab and click the Create New Schedule button

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Locate the Schedule Options section

Locate the Schedule Options sectionSchedule options
  1. Set the Schedule Title
  2. Set the Schedule frequency
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Locate the Maintenance Options section

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Select tasks that you want to perform

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Select wanted child sites

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Click the Schedule Maintenance button

If you want to make sure that WP Cron jobs are regularly triggered on your MainWP Dashboard, you can Authorize the Uptime Robot service and add your dashboard site as a monitor. The Uptime Robot will ping your dashboard site regularly and make sure that all scheduled events are occurring.

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Edit Maintenance Schedule

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Login in to your MainWP Dashboard

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Go to the MainWP > Add-ons > Maintenance page

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Go to the Schedules tab

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Locate the Schedule that you want to edit

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Click the Edit button

Click the Edit buttonEdit schedule
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Locate the Schedule Options option box

Locate the Schedule Options option box
  1. Set the Schedule Title
  2. Set the Schedule frequency
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Locate the Maintenance Options option box

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Select tasks that you want to perform

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Select wanted child sites

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Click the Update Schedule button

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Delete Maintenance Schedule

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Login in to your MainWP Dashboard

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Go to the MainWP > Add-ons > Maintenance page

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Go to the Schedules tab

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Locate the Schedule that you want to Delete

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Click the Delete button

Click the Delete buttonDelete task

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Enable 404 Email Alerts (Legacy)

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Feature retired for new users since version 4.1

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Login into Your MainWP Dashboard

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Go to the MainWP > Add-ons > Maintenance page

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Go to the 404 Email Alerts tab

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Locate the 404 Email Alerts Settings section

Locate the 404 Email Alerts Settings section
  1. Set the Enable 404 email notifications option to YES
  2. Enter your Notification email address
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Select your child sites

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Click the Save Settings button