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MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies
Keep your client data close and your SaaS subscriptions far away.
HealthyGrowing
94/100
The plugin provides excellent site management and privacy despite some data recovery issues.
Active installs
~36,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.9★
2,342 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+13%
Growing
275 → 311 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +13% in the last year
275/day a year ago→311/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMainWP Dashboard is well-regarded as a capable, self-hosted WordPress site management tool praised for its ease of use and efficiency, though it has a notable reliability gap around data portability and local installation recovery.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and intuitive to use×4
- +Effective for managing updates across many WordPress sites×3
- +Helps organize and manage client site information×2
- +Fast syncing and clean interface
- +Considered superior to alternatives like InfiniteWP by users who have switched
Common complaints
- −Import functionality for saved pages/data does not work, making migration or recovery from a broken installation extremely tedious
- −Local installation breaks after hardware upgrades even when database and files are properly imported, with no reliable recovery path
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.95★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 2,342 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-07★★★★★Not impressed and lack of support – UpdateThomas Reinholdt
- 2026-03-14★★★★★MainWP works great.CapeDave2
- 2026-02-18★★★★★Great plugin!george
- 2026-01-29★★★★★Lost timevellkan
- 2026-01-29★★★★★Perfectfreelancesgroup
- 2026-01-23★★★★★Simple, efficace… et indispensableJérill
- 2026-01-15★★★★★Great Appamajor79
- 2025-11-22★★★★★Rocks. It ROCKS.IAmediaworks
- 2025-11-19★★★★★Fit for use and fot for purposejaalders
- 2025-10-24★★★★★Great alternative to mainstream solutionsrokkster
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
274
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
276
Prior 7-day baseline
287
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
3,372
Mean release-day peak (30d)
4,235
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-0.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
9%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.86
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
98%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-30%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.96 → 4.95★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered