Title: WP License Manager
Author: Jarkko Laine
Published: <strong>November 5, 2014</strong>
Last modified: April 27, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP License Manager

 By [Jarkko Laine](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jarkkolaine/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-license-manager.0.5.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-license-manager/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-license-manager/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-license-manager/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-license-manager/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-license-manager/)

## Description

WP License Manager is an easy to use plugin that will turn your WordPress site into
a license manager that can be used for WordPress themes, plugins and other downloadable
products.

Downloadable files are stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to keep them
safe from people without a license.

Possible uses for WP License Manager:

 * Hosting your own premium plugins and themes and serving updates to them.
 * Hosting private plugins that you don’t want to share in the open.
 * If you get more creative, the license manager plugin can be extended to be used
   for all kinds of digital goods; downloadable games, for example.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The plugin adds a custom post type, “Products”, that can be used to manage your
   license controlled themes and plugins.
 * [[
 * For each product, in addition to the description, you can define custom fields
   such as the plugin’s version number, file, and WordPress requirements.
 * [[
 * You can add licenses for each of your products. A license can be time limited
   or valid forever.
 * [[
 * The list of licenses shows the licenses and some information about them.

## Installation

The easiest way to install the plugin is through the WordPress plugin directory.

To install the plugin manually:

 1. Unzip the plugin package
 2. Upload directory `wp-license-manager` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

After you have completed the installation, configure plugin settings by clicking
on the “License Manager Settings”
 menu option in the WordPress Settings menu. Now,
you are ready to start adding products and licenses.

#### Make your theme or plugin use WP License Manager

Making your themes and plugins use your own License Manager site requires some basic
PHP programming
 knowledge (but nothing that couldn’t be handled by a little copy-
pasting, actually…).

To make the integration as easy as possible, we have created a PHP class that you
can pretty much drop in
 to your theme or plugin to make it query updates from your
own license server instead of WordPress.org.

The class and detailed integration instructions can be found on GitHub:
 [WP License Manager Client](http://github.com/jarkkolaine/wp-license-manager-client)

## FAQ

FAQ coming soon.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[This plugin activate my plugin and then ask for key](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-activate-my-plugin-and-then-ask-for-key/)󠁿

 [wordinvestor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wordinvestor/) September 3, 2016

I add license option in my plugin but on activation it do not ask about license 
key and plugin show as activated then it says that enter your email and license 
key. It need to stop activation without license key.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-license-manager/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP License Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jarkko Laine ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jarkkolaine/)

[Translate “WP License Manager” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-license-manager)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-license-manager/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-license-manager/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-license-manager/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-license-manager/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.5.5

 * Added a new plugin data update system. Fixes the problem with products disappearing
   after the 0.5.4 update.

#### 0.5.4

 * Changed the name of the products custom post type to prevent conflicts with other
   plugins.
 * Fixed conflicts with other menu items.

#### 0.5.2

 * Added support for PHP versions < 5.3. We highly recommend upgrading to PHP 5.3
   + but understand that not all users have the possibility to do so.
 * Trimmed the download size a bit.

#### 0.5.0

 * First public release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.5.5**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-license-manager/)
 * Tags
 * [licence](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/licence/)[license](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/license/)
   [license management](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/license-management/)
   [updates](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/updates/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-license-manager/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-license-manager/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-license-manager/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  1 2-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-license-manager/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-license-manager/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jarkko Laine ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jarkkolaine/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-license-manager/)