MainWP Browser Extension

Tracking since May 29, 2026.

Changelog

• May 29, 2026
  description

  Do you often want to stay informed about the available updates without logging into your MainWP Dashboard?
  
  Look no further, this MainWP Chrome extension is designed to help you easily keep track of available updates across all your connected Child Sites, including changes to your plugins and themes status done outside your Dashboard.
  With this extension, you also gain the ability to control how often it retrieves updates from your MainWP Dashboard.
  
  You can choose intervals as short as 15 minutes or as long as once a day, giving you the flexibility to stay informed at your preferred frequency without logging into your MainWP Dashboard.
  
  ➤ Features
  Stay informed on WordPress core, plugins, themes, & translation updates
  Automatically fetch the number of available updates for all Child Sites
  Connect to the Time Tracker (MainWP Pro Feature)
  Easily set the updates check time-interval
  Manually fetch available updates count
  Track the number of changes made outside of your MainWP Dashboard
  Quickly jump into the desired Dashboard page to take action on updates
  Supports all Chromium-based browsers
  Easily connect using MainWP REST API
  
  ➤ How it Works
  Login to your MainWP Dashboard and navigate to the “REST API” menu from the left pane.
  Click “Add API Keys”. Make sure the “Enable REST API key” is toggled ON.
  Write “Description”, for example: “My Brower extension keys”.
  Install this extension, and click on the MainWP icon in your browser to open the settings for the extension.
  From your MainWP Dashboard REST API screen, copy “Consumer Key” and “Consumer Secret” and paste them on the extension.
  Hit “Save Settings” on your MainWP Dashboard, then click “Save Settings” on the extension.
  
  Voila! Your MainWP Dashboard is now connected to your extension.
  
  ➤ Support
  
  To understand better, take a look at our detailed guide: https://kb.mainwp.com/docs/mainwp-browser-extensions/
  
  If you have any questions, feel free to post in our community forum: https://managers.mainwp.com/
  
  ➤ Permissions
  The MainWP Chrome extension requests permission for alarms, storage, and notifications to store the update count and notify you when you start your browser. Rest assured, this extension does not collect any user data.
  
  ➤ Privacy Practices
  The MainWP Chrome extension does not collect any data. It just uses your generated MainWP REST API keys to connect to your MainWP Dashboard. However, by installing this extension, you agree to and acknowledge the following:
  
  https://mainwp.com/terms-of-service/
  https://mainwp.com/privacy-policy/
  
  Say goodbye to constantly monitoring your MainWP Dashboard. Our extension will promptly alert you, saving you valuable time while keeping you informed.

  The MainWP Chrome extension brings your MainWP Dashboard into your browser toolbar. Open the popup to see updates across your child sites, the timer you forgot to stop yesterday, and the licenses about to expire next week, all without keeping a Dashboard tab open.
  
  MainWP is a self-hosted WordPress management platform: one Dashboard you run on your own server to control all your child sites. The extension talks only to your Dashboard, never to MainWP servers. Time Tracker and Cost Tracker are new in version 3.0, joining the original update monitoring.
  
  Updates monitoring shows WordPress core, plugin, theme, and translation updates across every connected child site. The extension polls your Dashboard on the schedule you set, anywhere from every 15 minutes to once a day, and shows the count on the toolbar badge. It also surfaces non-MainWP changes (anything modified directly on a child site outside the Dashboard) so you notice when someone has been clicking around in production. Click any update and you land on the right Dashboard page.
  
  Time Tracker lets you start, pause, resume, and stop tasks from the popup. Timers persist across browser restarts and survive service-worker sleep. The extension icon shows a live timer badge while a task is running.
  
  Cost Tracker rolls up per-site costs and license expirations into a single view. Licenses expiring within 7 days are flagged urgent, those within 30 days are flagged as warnings, so you can renew before something goes dark. A daily refresh keeps the numbers current.
  
  Works in Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, including Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, and Opera.
  
  ➤ How it Works
  
  Open your MainWP Dashboard and go to the REST API screen in the left menu. Click Add API Keys, name them something like "Browser extension keys," and confirm the Enable REST API key toggle is on. On Dashboard 5.2 or newer, the extension uses a Bearer token; older Dashboards fall back to Consumer Key plus Consumer Secret. Copy the credentials from the Dashboard, paste them into the extension popup, save on both sides, and you're connected.
  
  ➤ Permissions
  
  The extension requests alarms, storage, and notifications. Alarms drive the periodic update sync and the daily cost refresh. Storage holds your Dashboard URL, preferences, cached counts, and (in chrome.storage.local only, never synced) your authentication credentials. Notifications surface new updates, timer state changes, license expirations, and sync errors, with dedup and rate limits tuned per category so a flaky connection doesn't spam you. Host permissions are requested at runtime only for the Dashboard URL you configure.
  
  ➤ Privacy
  
  Credentials are stored locally and only ever sent to the MainWP Dashboard you configure, over HTTPS. Nothing is sent to MainWP servers or any third party.
  
  By installing the extension, you agree to:
  https://mainwp.com/terms-of-service/
  https://mainwp.com/privacy-policy/mainwp-chrome-extension-privacy-policy/
  
  ➤ Support
  
  Setup guide: https://docs.mainwp.com/advanced/miscellaneous/mainwp-browser-extensions
  Community forum: https://community.mainwp.com/

• May 29, 2026
  short_description

  Stay informed by monitoring available updates and non-MainWP changes. Connects to your MainWP Dashboard via REST API.

  Companion for your MainWP Dashboard — monitor site updates, time, and costs. Connects to your self-hosted Dashboard.

• May 29, 2026
  host_permissions

  <all_urls>

  (empty)

• May 29, 2026
  permissions

  alarms, storage, unlimitedStorage, notifications, activeTab

  alarms, storage, notifications

Permissions & access

Permissions

alarmsstoragenotifications

Host access

None declared

Screenshots

Similar extensions

Alternatives to MainWP Browser Extension, ranked by description similarity.

WhatWPTheme - WordPress Detector

Analyze the current WordPress website to detect its theme and active plugins. Only works when you click the extension button.

88

★ 5.0

WP Daily News Feed

New tab page showing random WordPress industry news from top RSS feeds.

6

Extension Data

Quickly see stats for any chrome extension

113

★ 5.0

RealMonitor — Website Uptime & WordPress Manager

All-in-one website monitoring: uptime tracking, domain management, WordPress oversight, Telegram & Email alerts.

75

★ 5.0

Github Notifications

This extension displays an icon in Chrome indicating your open pull-requests

16

★ 5.0

Website monitoring

With the Website Monitoring app, you can track website uptime. You can get down alerts, check site status, and ensure server uptime

266

★ 5.0

REST API Monitor

Monitor, log, and analyze REST API requests in real-time. Perfect for developers, QA engineers, and API analysts.

102

WP Hive | A Better WordPress Plugin Repo

Show plugin report in WordPress.ORG

8.0K

★ 4.0