# Activating

## Installing

- **In the suite**, install the suite first, then its Pro plugin, which
  carries View, and activate both on the Plugins screen.
- **The standalone SleekView plugin** needs PHP 8.2 and WordPress 6.5 or
  later. It adds `SleekWP > View` to the admin menu.

On activation SleekView registers its two post types, one for Views and one
for admin pages, and brings the database tables an earlier version created up
to date. Nothing else needs setting up: open **Views** and create the first one, as
[View Configuration](/docs/view/views/view-configuration.md) describes.

## The license

The license connects the site to SleekWP's store, which the standalone plugin
uses to receive updates. Views, admin pages and embeds work whether or not a
license is active. Enter the key on View's License page, or set it in the
`SLEEK_VIEW_LICENSE` constant; [License](/docs/view/settings/license.md) covers
both.

## Deactivating and uninstalling

Deactivating SleekView keeps everything but its saved list of the Views and
admin pages that wp-admin shows, which it builds again on the next admin page
after it is active. Deleting it removes the tables the earlier built-in AI
chat used, its version markers, that saved list and its Agent Sync markers, on
every site of a network, and keeps your Views and admin pages, feedback
upvotes, Kanban card order, its settings, the license, and any files Agent
Sync wrote to the theme, so a later reinstallation finds them again.

While another plugin that carries View is still installed, such as the suite's
Pro plugin after you delete the standalone SleekView plugin, View's data stays
for it and deleting removes nothing.