Manage WordPress sites in My Account

You manage WordPress sites that run AddoBase from My Account → WordPress plugins on addocore.com. The tab lists your plugin licenses, every site linked to your account with its add-ons, and your account’s license key. It appears in the account menu once you have a plugin license, a trial or a connected site.

What does the WordPress plugins tab show?

The tab has three blocks: Plugin licenses, Sites and License key. Below them is a link to the plugin docs. Everything you need to manage WordPress sites from the shop side is on this one page; the AddoBase screen in wp-admin shows the same licenses from the site’s side.

If you have no plugin account yet, the page only says “You have no WordPress plugin licenses yet.”

How do the plugin license rows work?

Each add-on license is one row with the columns Plugin, License and Sites.

• License shows a Trial badge with “N days left (until date)” or “ended date”, or simply Active for a paid license.
• Sites shows how many sites use the license: “2 of 5 in use”, or “3 in use, unlimited sites”.
• A trial row has a Buy license button that opens the product page. A paid row has a Billing button that opens My Account → Subscriptions.

Browse plugins at the top opens the plugin catalog. Trial length, renewals and failed payments are covered in free trials and plugin licenses.

Which details do you see when you manage WordPress sites?

Every site that runs AddoBase and is linked to your account gets its own block. The heading is the site address without https://, www. or a trailing slash. Next to it is a badge: Connected for a site linked through the connect flow, or License key for a site that uses your key.

Under the heading is one line with the last check and the versions the site reported, for example:

Last check: 3 hours ago · AddoBase 1.0.0 · WordPress 6.8

Then come the add-ons that are licensed or switched on for that site, each with a status:

• On: licensed, switched on and inside the number of sites in your license.
• Off: licensed, but not switched on for this site.
• On, but no free site in your license: switched on, but all sites in the license are taken by other sites.
• On, but not licensed: switched on, but the trial ended or the license expired.

A site without any licensed add-on shows “No licensed add-ons yet.”

How do you manage WordPress sites and their add-ons from here?

You switch an add-on for one site with the Switch on or Switch off button in its row. The shop confirms with a message such as “Switched on for example.com. The site applies it at its next check, or right away when you open AddoBase there.”

A connected site checks in twice a day through WP-Cron, so a change takes at most about 12 hours. Opening the AddoBase screen on the site applies it at once.

Switching on reserves one of the sites in your license. When none is free, the shop refuses with “Your license covers N sites and they are all in use. Switch the plugin off on another site, or upgrade your license.” Nothing is switched off for you.

My Account only changes the license side. It does not install or activate the plugin on the site. If the add-on is installed but inactive, AddoBase shows “Licensed here, plugin not active”; activate it in the Plugins screen. For an add-on that is not installed yet, use Install and switch on on the AddoBase screen instead. See switching add-ons on and off for every way to switch.

Why are license-key sites read-only?

A site that uses your license key has no link to your account, so you cannot manage WordPress sites like that from the shop. Its block has no Switch buttons and shows the note “This site uses your license key. Activate or deactivate add-ons in its Plugins screen, or connect it to your account in wp-admin → AddoBase to manage it from here.”

To manage WordPress sites like this one from My Account, open AddoBase on the site and click Connect with AddoCore. The details are in using a license key instead of connecting.

Where do you find your license key?

The License key block shows your account’s key with a Copy button. The format is MCPTE-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. You only need it for a site that cannot be connected. The key covers your whole account, so treat it like a password. You do not need it to manage WordPress sites that are connected.

What happens when you disconnect a site?

Disconnecting is how you manage WordPress sites you no longer run. Disconnect site asks “Disconnect this site? Its add-ons stop working there until it is connected again.” After you confirm, the shop shows “example.com is disconnected and its add-ons are switched off.” The site’s slots in your licenses are free again straight away.

The site itself learns this at its next check, which then fails with “This site is not connected, or the request signature is invalid.” Until then, and for the 96-hour offline grace period after its last good check, its add-ons keep running on the last known state. To stop them at once, also click Disconnect on the AddoBase screen of that site.

For a license-key site, disconnecting here is undone at its next check as long as the key is still saved there. Remove the key in AddoBase on that site instead.

Deleting AddoBase through Plugins → Delete also tells AddoCore to disconnect the site. Only deactivating AddoBase keeps the link, so reactivating needs no new connect.

How do you move a site to a new domain?

A domain move is the most common reason to manage WordPress sites by hand. AddoCore recognises sites by their address, so a new domain is a new site. A staging copy on another address also counts as a separate site once it is connected. After a move:

1. Click Disconnect site for the old address in My Account, or Disconnect in AddoBase.
2. On the new domain, open AddoBase and click Connect with AddoCore.
3. Switch your add-ons on again.

Reconnecting the same address later reuses its existing entry and does not take an extra site. If the move also changed the security salts in wp-config.php, AddoBase shows the site as not connected; connect it again.

The WordPress plugins tab is the one place to manage WordPress sites across all your installs. Next, read troubleshooting AddoBase for what each error message means.