Installation and license
Install Easy SVG Pro, activate your license with your UnleashWP account, a code by email or a license key, and learn how updates and multisite work.
This guide takes you from the downloaded ZIP to an activated site that receives updates. It takes about five minutes.
Before you start
- Easy SVG Support is installed and active. Pro is an add-on and needs it. See Installation.
- Your site runs WordPress 6.6 or newer and PHP 8.2 or newer. Pro needs a newer PHP than the free plugin. Check under Tools → Site Health → Info → Server.
- You bought Easy SVG Pro and can sign in to your UnleashWP account.
- You are an administrator on the site.
Install the plugin
Download the ZIP
Sign in to your UnleashWP account and download the Easy SVG Pro ZIP. Do not unzip it. See Downloads and invoices if you cannot find it.
Upload it to WordPress
Go to Plugins → Add Plugin → Upload Plugin, choose the ZIP and click Install Now.
Activate it
Click Activate Plugin. In the plugin list, Easy SVG Pro now has two links: Icons and License.
If Easy SVG Support is missing or too old, a red notice at the top of wp-admin says so, and the Pro features stay off until it is fixed.
Activate your license
Go to Icons → License. You see the message "This site is not activated yet". There are three ways to activate. Use the one that suits you.
The quickest way. No password is typed on your site.
Open the sign-in window
Under With UnleashWP account, click Connect with UnleashWP. A small window opens.
Sign in and allow
Sign in to your account in that window and click Allow. If you cannot find the window, click Window not found? Open it again.
Pick the license
Back on your site, you see "Signed in. Now pick the license for this site." Each license shows how many sites it has in use, for example "1 of 3 sites in use". Click Activate this site.
For browsers that block pop-up windows.
Ask for a code
Click No browser login? Code by email. Enter the Email of your UnleashWP account, the address you bought with, and click Send code.
Enter the code
A 6-digit code arrives by email. It is valid for 10 minutes. Type it into Code from the email and click Confirm.
Pick the license
Choose the license and click Activate this site.
For when you have the key from your purchase email.
Paste the key
Under With license key, paste the key into License key. The paste button next to the field does it in one click.
Activate
Click Activate.
Set the key in wp-config.php instead
Agencies that deploy many sites can put the key into wp-config.php. The site then activates itself, and nobody has to open the License screen:
define( 'EASY_SVG_PRO_LICENSE_KEY', 'your-license-key' );
Add the line above /* That's all, stop editing! */. The License screen then says that a key is set in wp-config.php.
How the license works
- The key is never stored in your database. It is sent once to activate the site. After that the site keeps a token that you can revoke from your account.
- Updates arrive in WordPress. While the license is active, Pro updates appear under Dashboard → Updates like any other plugin update. See Updates are not showing if one is missing.
- Multisite. One license covers the whole network. Network-activate the plugin.
- Moving to a new site. Click Deactivate this site under License status to free the seat, then activate the new site.
What happens without an active license?
| Without a license | With an active license | |
|---|---|---|
| Free features (uploads, free icon library) | Keep working | Keep working |
| Pro screens and features | Hidden or locked | Available |
| Icons from sets, folders and packs on your pages | Not drawn | Drawn |
| Updates | None | Automatic |
Your icon sets stay stored in the database either way. They come back the moment the license is active again.