Activating
The license connects the site to SleekWP’s store; the standalone SleekByte plugin uses it to receive updates. Snippets, the workspace and the CLI work whether or not a license is active.
On the License page
Open Byte’s License page: in the suite it sits below Byte in the workspace
sidebar, and in the standalone plugin under SleekWP > Byte.
- Enter the license key.
- Choose Activate license.
The page asks the store to activate the key for this site and shows the result as valid or invalid. Only a valid key is kept; an invalid one is discarded. Deactivate license asks the store to release the key for this site and removes it together with its status, after you confirm.
The page is hidden when the standalone plugin is white-labelled.
With a constant
You can provide the key in PHP instead, for example in wp-config.php:
define( 'SLEEK_BYTE_LICENSE', 'YOUR LICENSE KEY' );
While the constant holds a non-empty key, the License page shows that key, masked, as managed by the constant, and refuses to activate or deactivate a key entered on the page. The constant does not activate the key with the store by itself.
Uninstalling
Deleting the plugin removes Byte’s settings, its license, its version markers,
its saved list of snippets, the previews with their temporary files in uploads/sleek-byte-preview and
their scheduled cleanup, and what the retired built-in AI chat and standalone
recovery editor left behind, on every site of a network. It keeps the snippets
in uploads/sleek-byte, which are the site’s own code, with their error logs
and history, the local copies of external assets in
uploads/sleek-byte-assets and the plugins exported to
uploads/sleek-byte-exports. While another plugin that carries Byte is still
installed, such as the suite’s Pro plugin after you delete the standalone
SleekByte plugin, Byte’s data stays for it and deleting removes nothing.