🔑 Installing The Plugin And Activating Your Licence Key

Installing ResultsAiX Consent takes a couple of minutes: upload the zip, activate it, then paste your licence key. The key is what opens the admin screens on this site and what lets the site receive updates.

Where to find it:

• The plugin itself: Plugins, Add New, Upload Plugin in WordPress.
• The key screen: the AiX Consent menu item, until a key is active.
• The licence details afterwards: AiX Consent, Settings tab, the License panel at the top.

Installing the plugin:

1. Download the plugin zip from your account portal.
2. In WordPress go to Plugins, then Add New, then Upload Plugin.
3. Choose the zip file and press Install Now.
4. Press Activate Plugin.
5. A new menu item called AiX Consent appears in your admin menu.

Nothing changes on your public site yet. On a fresh install the banner is switched off, so you can look around first.

Activating your key:

Until a key is active, the AiX Consent menu opens a screen headed Activate your licence.

1. Copy your key. It looks like AIXCONSENT-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX.
2. Paste it into the field labelled Your key.
3. Press Activate, or press Enter in the field.
4. Wait a few seconds. You see the message Activated. Enjoy! and the screen reloads with all ten tabs.

Your key is emailed to you automatically when you purchase, and every key you own is listed in your account portal. If you own the Complete Bundle, your bundle key works here too.

Account portal: https://resultswithkevin.com/portal/index.php

The License panel:

Once the key is active, the licence lives at the top of the Settings tab. It shows:

• License Key, masked so it can be recognised but not copied.
• Status, shown as Active.
• Licensed To, the email address on the key.
• Renews, the date the licence server gives.
• Activated Domains, with a count such as 2/3 sites used, and this site marked (this site).

In the example, Juniper Lane Pottery uses one key on yoursite.com and on shop.yoursite.com, so the panel reads 2/3 sites used and one activation slot remaining.

Freeing a slot:

Next to every site in the list is an X Remove button. It frees that site's slot so you can use the key somewhere else, which is handy for a staging copy or a site you have handed over. It frees the slot only. It does not switch the plugin off on that site.

The buttons underneath:

• Refresh License Info checks the key again and refreshes the list of sites.
• Deactivate This Site releases this site's slot, so the key can be used elsewhere.
• All my keys & downloads opens your account portal.
• Change License Key, with its Replace key button, swaps the key and leaves every setting alone.

Deactivating the plugin on the WordPress Plugins screen also releases this site's slot, so moving to a new domain needs no extra step.

Help and your account:

Just under the License panel, the Help & your account box has four shortcuts: Training & docs (Open Training), Your account portal (Open the portal), Need a hand? (Contact support) and Troubleshooting (Open Diagnostics).

Messages you may see:

• If a key has no room left, you see: This key has no sites left on it. Free a slot on another site first. Press X Remove next to a site you no longer use, then activate again.
• If the licence server cannot be reached for a moment, you are told your licence is unaffected. Try again a little later.
• If the field is empty when you press Activate, you see Please enter your key.

Updates:

With an active key, new versions of ResultsAiX Consent appear on the WordPress Plugins screen like any other plugin update. Press Update now next to the plugin. Your settings, cookie declaration and consent log are kept through every update.

Moving the key to a new domain:

1. On the old site, go to Plugins and deactivate ResultsAiX Consent. That releases its slot.
2. On the new site, install the plugin and open AiX Consent.
3. Paste the same key into Your key and press Activate.
4. Open the Settings tab and check that Activated Domains lists the new site as (this site).

If you cannot reach the old site any more, press X Remove next to it in the License panel on any site that uses the same key.

Tips:

• Activate on your live domain first, then use a spare slot for a staging copy.
• When you move a site, deactivate the plugin on the old one first, which releases its slot.

Next steps:

With the key active, follow Five Minute Quick Start With Set Me Up. For a tour of every tab, see The Admin Tabs Explained: Dashboard, Banner, Cookies, Blocking And More.