Installing and managing plugin integrations

Integrations install, switch on and update from one place: the Integrations page of the theme dashboard. That page knows which build matches your theme, whether your license includes it, and when an update is safe to apply.

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#Where the Integrations page is

Open the menu named after your theme in the WordPress sidebar. That is the theme dashboard, and Integrations is one of the items in its navigation, next to License, Tools and System Info.

The page lists the integrations available for your theme as cards. Each card shows the integration's name, its installed version, a description, and a Requires: row naming any plugin or theme it depends on.

#What a card can show

Install

The integration is available and not on the site yet. The button downloads it from Hub, installs it and activates it, with the progress shown on the button.

A switch

The integration is installed. The switch turns it on and off. For an integration whose plugin is on the site but not active, turning the switch on activates the plugin.

Update to a version number

A newer version is available. The button checks for the latest version and installs it.

Update held back

A newer version exists but needs a newer JKD Toolkit than the site runs. Update the theme first, and the integration update becomes available.

Required license

No active license on the site. Activate one to unlock installs.

Pro plugin required

A license is active but the Pro plugin is not. Install and activate the Pro plugin.

Not in your license

Your license does not include this integration, with an Upgrade license link next to it. See the license section below.

#Installing an integration

After installing, the integration also appears on the WordPress Plugins screen. That is expected: it is a real plugin, delivered through the theme dashboard. Keep managing it from the Integrations page all the same.

#Updating

Integration updates arrive through WordPress's own plugin update system, the same one the Plugins screen uses, so an available update shows on the card as Update to followed by the version number. Clicking it runs the update in place.

Keep integrations current. They are built and tested against current versions of the theme and JKD Toolkit. That is also why an update that needs a newer toolkit is held back instead of installed: applying it to an older framework would break the site.

The Refresh button at the top of the page re-reads the catalog from Hub. Use it after activating a license or when a card looks out of date.

#Integrations a demo import needs

A demo can depend on integrations. When you import one, the import stops at a requirements step that lists the plugins and integrations the demo needs, each with a button: plugins get Install or Activate, integrations get Turn on. Continue anyway is always available, but a demo imported without its integrations is missing the parts of its pages that relied on them.

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#Removing an integration

Switch it off on the Integrations page first. To remove its files completely, deactivate and delete its plugin on the WordPress Plugins screen.

Deleting the plugin does not erase its settings or anything it created, such as modal entries or guest author profiles. Installing it again brings you back to where you were.

#Licenses and the integration list

A license bought directly from us, with the Pro plugin, opens every integration. A Regular license, which is what an Envato purchase carries, covers the theme and the Pro plugin and only the integrations marked available to Envato; the cards of the rest show Not in your license. If none of the integrations for a theme are included, the page says so in one message instead of showing a grid of locked cards.

Integrations are not the only difference. A Regular key also has no automatic updates, gets only the demos marked available to Envato where a direct license gets every demo, has no priority support and no feature requests (voting on published roadmap entries stays open to everyone), and the list may grow.

What your license actually coversThis page is about what you bought and what its limits are. Activating it is a separate walkthrough, and this one assumes you have already done that or are deciding before you buy. Start wit...Licensing

A card that does not appear at all is a different matter: each integration lists the themes it works with, and the page shows only those. Why the integration list differs between themes explains it.

#Copies from anywhere else

Our integrations are not in the WordPress.org directory, and the Integrations page is the only source for them. A copy installed from an archive somebody sent you gets no updates, and a plugin that does not carry our integration declaration is flagged on its card as not a verified integration. We do not support those installs, because we cannot know what is in them, as the Support Policy sets out.

You can install any other plugin you like. The theme is built around its own integrations, and a general-purpose plugin doing the same job will look and behave the way its author intended, which is yours to own.

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#Common questions

#Still stuck

Open a support ticket and say what you tried and where it stopped. Your product, your domain, a screenshot and the exact message you saw are usually enough to settle it in one reply.

Last updated 15 Sep 2026