Activating

The license

Open Rank’s License page, in the workspace sidebar under Rank or, in the standalone plugin, in Rank’s own navigation under SleekWP > Rank. Enter the license key and activate it. The same page shows the license’s status and deactivates it.

You can also set the key in code by defining a constant, for example in wp-config.php:

define("SLEEK_RANK_LICENSE", "YOUR LICENSE KEY");

While the constant holds a key, Rank uses it, the License page shows it masked, and activating or deactivating there is refused because the constant manages the license.

When the standalone plugin is white-labelled, its License page is hidden.

Updating from SleekRank

The earlier standalone SleekRank plugin updates in place to its next major release from any published version. That release requires PHP 8.2 and WordPress 6.5; a site below either stays on its current release.

The administration is rebuilt on the suite’s workspace and stays under the SleekWP menu. Page groups, their data sources, mappings and sitemap settings, and the Google Sheets and Notion credentials carry over. To roll back, reinstall the previous ZIP.

Deactivating

Deactivating the plugin that carries Rank stops every generated URL: Rank takes its rewrite rules out of the site’s saved rules, so a generated URL returns WordPress’s 404 instead of the home page. On a network it also clears the saved rules of every other site that still holds Rank’s, and WordPress builds them again on that site’s next request, with Rank’s only where Rank still runs. Deactivating also clears the scheduled cleanup and data source refreshes. Page groups, their cached rows, credentials and settings stay; activating again restores the rules on the next request.

Uninstalling

Deleting the plugin removes the Google Sheets API key and the Notion token, Rank’s settings, the license, the fetched data source rows in {prefix}sleek_rank_items, the scheduled refreshes and cleanup, Rank’s version markers, the tables the earlier built-in AI chat used and the Agent Sync markers on page groups, on every site of a network. It keeps the page groups with their data sources, mappings and sitemap settings, and the page group files Agent Sync wrote to the theme, so reinstalling Rank finds them and fetches their rows again. While another plugin that carries Rank is still installed, such as the suite’s Pro plugin after you delete the standalone plugin, Rank’s data stays for it and deleting removes nothing.