All core Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress features will work without plugin activation. The activation will give you access to extended features, including automatic updates, free add-ons installation, multilingual translation, support from us, etc.
The activation of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress requires a valid purchase code for Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress. If you receive a plugin bundled inside a theme, you cannot activate the plugin with the theme purchase code. The version of the plugin you are using when receiving the plugin with the theme is theme-integrated. The theme integrated version will not receive updates of the plugin together with theme releases.
If you have a theme-integrated version of the plugin, but you need to get access to all premium benefits, you need to purchase a direct copy of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress.
How to find your purchase code #
To activate the plugin, you need to know your purchase code. You receive that kind of code with each purchase from the Envato platform. The purchase code for Easy Social Share Buttons can be found at any time at your CodeCanyon account.
- Go to Downloads tab at your Envato account https://codecanyon.net/downloads:
![[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 1 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons](https://kbsocialsharingplugin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/downloads-696x1291-1.png "[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 2 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons")
- Find Easy Social Share Buttons in the items list and press Download button. Then download PDF file with License certificate and purchase code
![[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 3 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons](https://kbsocialsharingplugin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/purchase-code-300x1561-1.png "[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 4 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons")
- Here is an example of a PDF License certificate and purchase code
![[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 5 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons](https://kbsocialsharingplugin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot_2022-10-27_at_20.08.3911-1024x660.png "[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 6 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons")
Activation of the plugin using the purchase code #
![[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 7 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons](https://kbsocialsharingplugin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/activate-plugin81.gif "[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 8 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons")
Deactivation of the purchase code from a website #
The deactivation of the purchase code from a website is usually needed when you move the license to a new website. To do so, go to the Activation screen of the current license and press the Deregister the code button.
![[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 9 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons](https://kbsocialsharingplugin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/activate-deregister-code-1536x7831-1.png "[Envato] How to find your purchase code, activate, or deactivate your license of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress 10 - Documentation for Easy Social Share Buttons")
If the website is not operating anymore and you did not deregister the purchase code before, there is another way to release the code and use it on another website. Go to https://my.socialsharingplugin.com and find the old domain. After that, request the deactivation of this domain.