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Worry less about updates breaking your site
Our staged rollouts help product developers fix bugs before they affect you. And if you’re still unhappy with the latest update, Freemius lets you revert to any version of a plugin released during it’s history.
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Send clients a purchase link while you retain control of the license.*
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For delivery of security & feature updates, and license management, Plugin plugin needs to ↓
View License Essentials
To let you manage & control where the license is activated and ensure plugin security & feature updates are only delivered to websites you authorize.
Homepage URL, plugin version, and SDK version
View plugin Info
So you can reuse the license when the plugin is no longer active.
Is active, deactivated, or uninstalled
View Diagnostic Info
To avoid breaking your website due to WordPress or PHP version incompatibilities, and recognize which languages & regions the plugin should be translated and tailored to.
WordPress and PHP versions, site language, and title
View Plugins and Themes List
To ensure compatibility and avoid conflicts with your installed plugins and themes.
Names, slugs, versions, and if active or not
User-friendly View
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- Homepage URL
A Homepage URL is the online address of your site’s main page (like: “www.yoursite.com/homepage”). Sharing this address lets you manage and control where (and when) the license is activated and ensures that updates are delivered only to the websites you authorize.
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- plugin
- SDK version
The “plugin version” and “SDK version” are numbers that identify what version of the plugin you have installed on your site (for example 1.1.5 and 3.4.6). Sharing these will enable you to get an automatic update when a newer version of the software is released, keeping the plugin up to date and ensuring the security of your site.
This means sharing whether the plugin is active, deactivated, or uninstalled. Along with the homepage URL, sharing the state allows you to reuse the license when the plugin is inactive.
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- WordPress & PHP Versions
The “WordPress version” and “PHP version” are numbers that identify what software infrastructure the site is running on. Sharing this will help the plugin prevent compatibility issues that may break your site.
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- Site Language & Title
Sharing the site language and title defined in the WordPress admin makes it possible to translate the plugin’s interface to your language and region, and offer tools, features, and content more relevant to the site.
Allow the plugin to solve compatibility issues with other plugins and themes, making the products you use more compatible with one another in future updates.
Technical View
function get_license_essentials() {
$plugin_basename = plugin_basename( __FILE__ );
$plugin_data = get_plugin_data( $plugin_basename );
return [
'homepage_url' => get_site_url(),
'plugin_version' => $plugin_data['Version'],
'sdk_version' => WP_FS__SDK_VERSION,
];
}
function get_license_essentials() {
$theme_data = wp_get_theme();
return [
'homepage_url' => get_site_url(),
'theme_version' => $theme_data->get( 'Version' ),
'sdk_version' => WP_FS__SDK_VERSION,
];
}
function get_plugin_state() {
$plugin_basename = plugin_basename( __FILE__ );
return is_plugin_active( $plugin_basename );
}
function after_switch_theme_callback( $old_theme_name, $old_theme ) {
$theme_data = wp_get_theme();
$is_theme_active = ( $theme_data->get( 'Name' ) !== $old_theme_name );
}
add_action( 'after_switch_theme', 'after_switch_theme_callback', 10, 2 );
function get_diagnostic_info() {
return [
'wp_version' => get_bloginfo( 'version' ),
'php_version' => phpversion(),
'site_language' => get_bloginfo( 'language' ),
'website_title' => get_bloginfo( 'name' ),
];
}
function get_extensions_list() {
$extensions = [
'plugins' => [],
'themes' => [],
];
$plugins = get_plugins();
foreach ( $plugins as $plugin_basename => $plugin ) {
$extensions[ 'plugins' ][] = [
'name' => $plugin[ 'Name' ],
'slug' => $plugin[ 'slug' ],
'version' => $plugin[ 'Version' ],
'is_active' => is_plugin_active( $plugin_basename ),
];
}
$active_theme_stylesheet = wp_get_theme()->get_stylesheet();
$themes = wp_get_themes();
foreach ( $themes as $theme_slug => $theme ) {
$extensions[ 'themes' ][] = [
'name' => $theme->name,
'slug' => $theme_slug,
'version' => $theme->version,
'is_active' => ( $theme_slug === $active_theme_stylesheet ),
];
}
return $extensions;
}
FAQ
Sharing certain non-sensitive information is a common way of allowing plugins and themes to improve and offer you updates that address your needs. This means that, over time, the products you use get better at doing what you need them to do, making WordPress as a whole more intuitive, secure, and user-friendly.
Your client and their website users will remain anonymous! Upon activation, sharing the site’s URL (required) and its diagnostic info (optional) will connect the plugin to the site itself with no personal info involved.
The Freemius SDK is built to make WordPress more versatile and responsive by allowing you to take action right inside your WP Admin dashboard. With the Freemius SDK, you can:
- Contact the product team in the dashboard directly.
- Start a free trial easily.
- View the product’s paid plans quickly.
- Upgrade your plan inside the WP Admin dashboard.
- Apply to the product’s affiliate program effortlessly.
- Automatically handle API connectivity issues.
- Use the SDK in 14 different languages.
No problem. When you go to ‘Plugins’ in your admin dashboard, you can simply click ‘Opt out’, manage your permissions, or stop sharing data altogether.
No problem. When you go to your theme’s options window, you can simply click “opt out”, manage your permissions, or stop sharing data altogether.
Freemius is the platform through which sharing the data is made possible, but Freemius itself does not use the data. The product you trust is the only entity authorized to access it. Freemius respects your privacy by following strict WordPress.org guidelines. This includes never allowing an unauthorized third party access to the data, and never recording information to which you did not consent, nor any personal or sensitive private information.