Licence and account
How licensing works
How your key covers your sites, how licence checks work and why existing translations keep working.
What your licence allows
Without a licence key, WPGlotty shows existing translations but makes no new ones, and you cannot open the editor. A free licence includes manual editing and automatic translation with WPGlotty credits, starting with your welcome words. You cannot use the provider key fields under Settings on a free licence. A paid plan lets you use your own key and buy more words.
Your visitors can still read existing translations in every language, whatever your licence status. The switcher, hreflang and sitemaps keep working too. When your plan ends, you return to the free licence and can keep editing one site. Your saved translations stay as they are.
- No licence key: existing translations are served, no new ones are made, and the editor stays closed
- Free licence: manual editing and automatic translation with available WPGlotty credits, but not your own provider key
- Paid plan: all features available
One key, as many sites as the plan allows
Activating a key links it to that site’s domain. Your plan sets how many domains you can use at once: one, five or unlimited. Once you reach that limit, release a domain before activating another.
The server checks this limit, so copying the plugin folder does not give you another licence.
A domain counts as one site with or without www, whatever the protocol (http or https), port or path. A staging copy on a different hostname counts as another site and uses a slot.
The check
The plugin checks your licence with wpglotty.com roughly twice a day using WordPress cron, then caches the result. It does not check while rendering a page.
The server returns a licence decision, a request error or a server error. If it returns a server error, the plugin keeps using the last known licence status. A temporary server problem does not change your licence.
If wpglotty.com is down, your site keeps its last licence status. It keeps showing its translations and keeps translating on your own key. Only translation on WPGlotty credits needs our translation service to be available.
What the check sends
The check sends your key, domain, plugin version and WordPress version. It also sends string counts, translation counts, words sent to a provider, their cost and the models used.
The licence check sends no original text, translations, personal information or URLs beyond the domain linked to your licence. You can see the reported counts on your account page.