Plugin licensing

Plugin Developers: How to add a license check to your plugin

You do not have to do anything code-wise to add a license check to your premium plugin. It's all automatic, unlike with premium [Addon_licensed|templates].

All you have to do is submit your plugin to the addons website and give it a price (thereby making it a "premium" plugin). When a user tries to install a plugin, Pro Edition's plugin manager will ping the addons site, check whether the plugin it's about to install is a "premium" plugin (has a price), and if it is it will check to make sure a license exists for it on the domain name it's coming from.

The license check doesn't happen unless you've submitted your plugin to the addons website. So until you do that you don't have to worry about it.

Then, even after you have submitted your plugin to the Addons website you can still test it on your own sites by using test licenses. You can manage your test licenses by logging-in to the Addons website, going to "My Addons", then looking under "Developer Tools" and clicking "Manage Test Licenses".