The Hub installs like any other WordPress plugin, and it takes about a minute. Get the zip from the free members area first (see Getting The Hub Free: One Sign-Up, Six Free Plugins).
Step by step:
- In WordPress go to Plugins, then Add New Plugin, then Upload Plugin.
- Click Choose File, pick the Hub zip and click Install Now.
- Click Activate Plugin.
- Look at the top of your sidebar: a ResultsAiX Hub menu now sits just under Dashboard.
- Click it. The Overview opens and starts counting your numbers.
Where to find it:
The ResultsAiX Hub menu sits near the top of your WordPress sidebar, just under Dashboard, with the R brand mark on a dark tile and its name in gold, whatever admin colour scheme your profile uses. Under it you see two rows:
- Home opens the Overview
- RWK AI Bots opens the Results With Kevin AI tab. You can hide this row in Settings
A ResultsAiX Hub shortcut is also added to the admin bar along the top of every admin screen, so you can jump to the Overview from anywhere.
Every Hub screen needs the manage_options capability, so the Hub is for administrators only.
Moving between Hub screens:
The sidebar stays short on purpose. Every Hub page has a tab strip across the top: Overview, My Plugins, Get More, Results With Kevin AI, Licenses, Settings, Diagnostics and Support. The My Plugins tab carries a small red number when updates are ready or plugins are switched off, so you can see from any Hub page that something is waiting. The screens that are not in the sidebar still work by direct address.
If you switch on menu consolidation in Settings, your ResultsAiX plugins also appear as rows under the ResultsAiX Hub menu. See Settings: Menu Consolidation And Per Plugin Overrides.
What happens on activation:
Two database tables are created if they do not already exist: your table prefix plus raix_stats (the shared weekly statistics table) and your table prefix plus raix_audit (the record of licence, update and switch on actions). On every load the Hub checks that both tables are there, and quietly creates them again if a host silently failed the first attempt.
Two background jobs are scheduled through WordPress's own scheduler:
- A daily refresh, first run about an hour after the Hub first loads. It refreshes the product catalogue and asks each registered plugin to refresh its licence status, so screens load from saved data instead of waiting on the network
- An hourly count of the Overview numbers, first run about five minutes after the Hub first loads, so the Overview usually opens on fresh numbers
You can see both jobs, and when each runs next, on the Diagnostics tab.
A real example:
Jamie uploads the Hub to yoursite.com, which already has sixteen ResultsAiX plugins switched on. After clicking Activate Plugin, Jamie clicks ResultsAiX Hub in the sidebar. The Overview greets Jamie by first name, counts the last month in a few seconds, and the health row already says 16 plugins running, 3 updates ready and 2 plugins switched off. Nothing had to be set up.
Does the order of installation matter?
No. Install the Hub before or after your other plugins. Anything already installed is picked up the next time you open a Hub screen, and a plugin you add later appears on My Plugins the moment WordPress lists it.
Keeping the Hub updated:
The Hub updates like any other plugin, from your WordPress Plugins screen. See Keeping The Hub And Your Plugins Updated.
Tips:
- Use the admin bar shortcut when you are deep inside another plugin: one click takes you back to the Overview.
- If your sidebar is long, switch on menu consolidation so your ResultsAiX plugins sit under one menu.
- Next, take the short tour in Your First Ten Minutes With The Hub.