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Install WP Visibility and Enter the License Key

Download the plugin from your account, install it like any other plugin, and activate the license so updates arrive.

Updated September 27, 2026

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Download the zip from your account, upload it on the Plugins screen, activate it, then paste your license key into WP Visibility → Settings. The whole thing takes about two minutes. Once the plugin is active it starts printing titles, meta tags and structured data, and serving a sitemap, from its defaults, so review the settings soon after.

Before you start

WP Visibility needs WordPress 7.0 or newer and PHP 8.1 or newer. If you are not sure what you are running, open Tools → Site Health → Info: the WordPress section shows the core version and the Server section shows the PHP version (Site Health screen, WP_Debug_Data::get_wp_server(), checked September 27, 2026). On an older version WordPress itself refuses the upload or the activation and names the version the plugin requires (Plugin_Upgrader::check_package(), validate_plugin_requirements(), checked September 27, 2026). If a site falls below either floor after activation, for example when a host changes PHP, the plugin stays idle and says so.

If you are replacing Yoast, Rank Math or SEOPress, install WP Visibility alongside the old plugin first and run the import before deactivating it: Migrate from Yoast SEO, Migrate from Rank Math, or Migrate from SEOPress.

Install

  1. Log in to your account and download the plugin zip.
  2. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add Plugin and click Upload Plugin.
  3. Choose the zip, click Install Now, then Activate Plugin.

WordPress’s own plugin guide covers the same upload steps; it still calls the menu item Add New, which WordPress 7.0 labels Add Plugin (core source, checked September 27, 2026).

A WP Visibility entry appears in the admin menu with one item, Settings. Two more appear later as you turn their modules on: Redirects with the Redirects module and Review queue with the Autopilot module. Only administrators see the menu.

Enter the license key

  1. Open WP Visibility → Settings and find the License section. The settings page is one searchable screen; typing “license” in the search box filters to it.
  2. Paste the key from your account into License key and click Activate.

The badge beside the button tells you what happened:

Badge Meaning
Active The key is valid. A Renews: date appears when one is known.
Invalid The server rejected the key. Check for a missing character, or copy it again from your account. An expired license also returns Invalid when you activate it.
Could not verify The activation server could not be reached or did not give an answer. The plugin keeps working; try again in a few minutes.

The key unlocks updates. Features are never locked: without an active key the update server withholds the download, so new versions cannot be installed from the Plugins screen. With an active key, updates install from the Plugins screen like any other plugin.

From the command line, the same step is:

wp visibility license activate WPV-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
wp visibility license status

What happens next

A Get started checklist at the top of the settings screen walks the three setup steps: enter your license, connect your AI assistant, and turn on Autopilot review. It tracks itself and disappears when the steps are done; Hide this dismisses it early in that browser.

On a fresh install the plugin renders titles, descriptions, canonicals, Open Graph tags, an XML sitemap and structured data from its defaults. Start with the Titles & descriptions section: its templates set the title of every page that does not have its own, and the meta description of the homepage, posts, pages and category or tag archives that have none.

For key problems, write to support@wpvisibility.com with the email address on your account.