Licences and sites
Licensing works the same way for every plugin in the suite, so it is documented once, here. The short version of all of it: when a licence lapses, the plugin keeps working. You lose updates, support and hosted credits — never the site.
User guide
- Activating a licencedraftWhere the licence key goes, what the key looks like, what each error message means, and why the free plugins never ask you for one.A licence key unlocks the Pro add-on . The free plugins on WordPress.org never ask for one and never check in with us at all — if you are…
- When a licence expiresYour site keeps working. An expired licence loses updates, support and hosted credits — it never disables a plugin, hides your settings or deletes your data.Your site keeps working. When a Subset licence lapses — because you cancelled, because a card failed, or because you simply did not renew —…
- What counts as a siteOne WordPress install is one site, however many addresses it answers on. What we collapse, what we keep separate, and which cases are free.A site slot is one WordPress install . Not one domain, not one subdomain, not one address bar — one install, with its own , its own…
- Development and staging sitesStaging never consumes a licence slot. The full list of what we detect, why staging-cafe.com is charged as a real site, and what to do if we get it wrong.A development or staging site never consumes a licence slot. It activates normally, gets updates normally, and is free — even when every…
- Moving a licencedraftFreeing a slot and using it somewhere else, changing domain, going from staging to live, and what to do when the old site is already gone.A licence is not tied to a site. Site slots are a count, and a count can go down as well as up — so moving a licence from one site to…
- Multisite networksdraftOne WordPress network counts as one site, however many subsites it has. Activate at the network level, and what subdomain subsites do to detection.A WordPress multisite network counts as one site. A network of three subsites and a network of three hundred both consume one slot. One…
Elsewhere
- Pricing — the tiers, the site limits, and what is still undecided.
- Licence agreement — the terms these pages describe in plain language.