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    Switching tools should not mean starting again

    Bring your sites across with the bulk importer or the connector plugin, on any host. Keep your current tool connected while you compare.

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    From $2.99 a month for 1 site, with a 7-day trial.

    The problem

    Why this is hard today

    Reconnecting every site by hand

    Adding sites one at a time is slow and easy to get wrong.

    Exports carry credentials

    Site lists exported from another dashboard can include credentials you would rather not pass around.

    Two tools, one site

    Running two tools side by side is fine, until both try to update the same site.

    How MaintainHQ handles it

    From export to connected.

    The importer and the connector plugin do the heavy lifting. Your old tool can stay connected until you are ready.

    1. Step 1: Export or paste

      Export your site list from ManageWP or MainWP, or paste your site addresses into the importer.

    2. Step 2: Preview

      The importer removes duplicates and shows a preview before anything is created. Credentials in the export are ignored.

    3. Step 3: Install the connector

      Each site gets its own connector, with its key built in, from a signed link valid for 24 hours.

    4. Step 4: Connected

      The site shows as connected within a minute of activation, alongside your other management plugins.

    5. Step 5: Switch over

      Turn on backups, safe auto-updates and monitoring, then switch off the overlapping jobs in your old tool.
    • The connector runs alongside the MainWP Child plugin, so you can keep both while you switch.
    • Remove ManageWP's worker plugin once a site is connected to MaintainHQ.
    • Each connector is unique, so install each site's own file rather than one file sent to every site.
    • Pick one tool to own updates on each site, so two tools never update the same site.

    What's involved

    The features that do the work

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    Coming from ManageWP

    The importer reads ManageWP exports, and you can remove the worker plugin once a site is connected here.
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    Coming from MainWP

    The importer reads MainWP exports, and the connector runs alongside the MainWP Child plugin.
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    What you get once you are in

    Gus, safe updates with pre-update testing, verified backups, malware scanning, uptime and white-label reports.
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    Connect a site and see MaintainHQ and Gus at work on it, on any host.

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