Documentation
The Vault documentation
How to set up and use The Vault: install, settings and fixes for common problems.
Overview
The Vault is the WP Wizards plugin library inside your WordPress admin. Use it to install our plugins, add license keys and keep everything updated.
Where to find it: The Vault, in the main WordPress menu.
What you need
- WordPress 5.8 or newer
- PHP 7.4 or newer
Install
The Vault is free. Download it from the plugin page, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the zip and activate it. After that it updates itself.
Quick start
- Install The Vault. Download it from the plugin page, then go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin and activate it.
- Connect the site. Open The Vault and enter your name and email under Connect this site. Free plugins work right away. WP Wizards clients and license holders should use the email on their WP Wizards account.
- Confirm your email. We send a 6-digit code. Enter it to link the site to your account so your licenses and client benefits apply here.
- Install a plugin. Find it on the All, Free or Premium tab and click Install. It is installed and activated for you.
Tabs
- All, Free, Premium: the plugin library. Use the search box and the All Plugins / Installed / Not Installed filter to narrow it down.
- Custom plugins: shows only when WP Wizards has built a plugin just for this site. Only this site can see it.
- Licenses: add a license key and see each key’s status, sites used and expiry.
- Settings: turn automatic updates on or off, or disconnect the site.
License keys
Go to The Vault → Licenses, paste the key from your order confirmation (it looks like WPW-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX) and click Activate License. Your keys are also listed under My Account → Plugins on wpwizards.com.
A key covers one plugin, or every plugin if it is an All-Access key. Each key has a site limit; removing a key from a site frees that slot.
Updates
WP Wizards plugins update automatically, like plugins from WordPress.org. Click Check for updates at the top of The Vault to look right now. Turn automatic updates off under The Vault → Settings if you prefer to update by hand from the Plugins screen.
Premium plugins keep working when a license lapses, but stop receiving updates until it is renewed.
Client sites
Sites built and managed by WP Wizards connect on their own with no email needed, and every plugin is included while your service is active.
Troubleshooting and questions
A premium plugin shows a price instead of Install.
The site has no license for it yet. Add your key under Licenses, or confirm the email on your WP Wizards account so client access applies.
It says the site is already connected to another account.
A confirmed connection can only be changed from the site that holds it. Release the site under My Account → Plugins on wpwizards.com, then connect again.
What does connecting share?
The site address, its WordPress and PHP versions, and which WP Wizards plugins are installed.
I moved the site to a new domain.
Open The Vault on the new address and click Check for updates. If plugins stop updating, reconnect the site.
Get help
Stuck on something this page does not cover? Contact us and tell us which plugin and version you are on. Need it to do something it does not do yet? We build custom plugins too.
