Issue with Manage Themes, Plugins, and Users - nothing listed

Dear MainWP Team,
I would like to give your product a chance, especially since I am moving away from ManageWP due to its self-hosting feature. However, for the past three days, I have been struggling to get one of the key functions up and running, which is managing multiple themes, plugins, and users. After several unsuccessful attempts to connect the child and dashboard (using self-signed SSL certificates), I have had the feature disabled. I can now integrate and manage the child site. However, the dashboard claims in the manage lists that the child plugin is not active and, consequently, lists nothing. No themes, plugins, or users are displayed. I am also puzzled that I have to manually sync after every change to see the updates (e.g., installing a theme). Is this intentional? I hope you can assist me before I give up.

Hey @AdminRalDon

Welcome to the MainWP community.

Can you please clarify this a bit more?

What feature did you disable, and what exactly wasn’t working before you disabled that feature?

And are you perhaps testing MainWP in a localhost environment?

Are any other features of the MainWP Dashboard working for you? Such as sync, updates, and post/page management.

After some actions (e.g., Updating plugins/themes), the Dashboard will immediately display the updated information.
However, after some actions, like installing a new plugin, synchronization will be necessary.

Finally, can you please post the community system report from your MainWP Dashboard for review? The report is located in your Dashboard under Info → Server, on the top right of the page.

Be sure to use the button like the one below; this button hides all your private information:

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Pressing the button auto-copies the report to your clipboard then just paste it in a reply here.

Also, please include the system report for the Child Site in question by navigating to MainWP Child > System Information and clicking the Blue button.

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In our tests, we had the Dashboard installed locally, and the Child sites that were installed both locally and on a webhost.
However, for local sites, we didn’t use a certificate of any kind and just used http:// URLs.

In your test, the Dashboard was only installed locally, and child sites were both locally and webhosted, but they were they all using self-signed certificates?

Would it be acceptable for you to test local child sites without certificates?

And for the webhosted sites, to use only Let’s Encrypt certificates?

Perhaps this is a bit of a misunderstanding of the MainWP Dashboard layout.
Even when there are no sites added to the Dashboard (or they are added, but the connection is broken), the menu entries for Themes, Plugins, Posts, and Pages will be visible.

Regarding the certificates, I have a solution, and this is where the misunderstanding comes in. The child page is connected, and the installed plugins and Blocksy theme are displayed for the page in the dashboard. However, when I go to the area where I want to list all pages by their themes and plugins, the dashboard claims to have no connection and therefore no entries to list.

Thanks for the info.

However, can you please clarify your setup for us.

  1. Where is your Dashboard installed (local or webhost) and what kind of certificate is it using, if any?

  2. Where are the child sites installed (local or webhost), and what kind of certificates are they using?
    a) If you have any local child sites, would it be acceptable for you to not use a certificate for them and simply add them to the Dashboard as a HTTP:// site?
    b) If you have any webhosted child sites, would it be acceptable for you to use a free Let’s encrypt certificate?

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