License when moving or copying a website
A key sits in the database of the installation in which you entered it. When moving to a different domain or copying a website, it is therefore important to know what is transferred and what is not.
What goes to the license server on activation
With every check the plugin sends three pieces of information to the license server: the key, the current address of the website and the identifier of the product. This happens when you click “Activate” and during the daily re-check. After a domain change, the new address therefore arrives with the next re-check at the latest; it goes out immediately if you enter the key again via “Change” and click “Activate”.
After copying a website
Consent can save its configuration as JSON and read it back in. The export leaves out the license key, and the import skips key and status. On the copy you therefore enter it again by hand.
- Open “Kakapo Consent” in the WordPress menu
- In the sidebar under “Legal & Tools”, click “System”
- In the “Data & transfer” card, click “Export” under “Export settings”
- Open the same card on the target site, select the file under “Import settings” and click “Import”
- Then go to “License” (in German: „Lizenz“) in the sidebar under “System” there, enter the key and click “Activate”
What the license area does not do
- It does not count websites — the field only ever holds the key of this one installation
- It shares nothing between the plugins; each one keeps its own key
- The list under “Network” → “Remote Sites” (in German: „Remote-Sites“) has nothing to do with the license; it connects further installations via an application password