The Flavor Dashboard
Flavor Core is a small companion plugin that manages your Flavor products from one place. You install and activate it once, and it keeps your theme and plugin licensed and up to date — you never touch the standard WordPress plugin/theme update screens for Flavor products.
Everything lives under one menu in your WordPress admin: Flavor. Clicking it opens the main Flavor page — your store's control center, the Flavor Dashboard.
Install and activate Flavor Core first. It's the plugin that downloads and installs the Flavor Starter Theme and the WP eCommerce Core Plugin for you — see License Activation.
Finding the Dashboard
In your WordPress admin sidebar, click Flavor. This opens the Dashboard. When an update is waiting, a small number badge appears next to the Flavor menu item.
What the Dashboard shows
The Dashboard changes depending on whether your license is active. You'll see one of three views.
Before you activate
The first time you open it, you're greeted with a Welcome screen to enter your license. Choose how you're using Flavor:
- Bundle — Theme + Plugin. Enter your Plugin key and your Theme key.
- Theme Only — the theme without the eCommerce plugin. Enter your Theme key.
Your keys look like FLVR-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX and are in your Flavor Hub portal. Paste them in and click Activate & Install Products — Flavor Core activates the license, then downloads and installs your products and their components automatically.
After activation — your control center
Once a license is active, the Dashboard becomes the control center. At a glance you get:
- License summary — your domain, your plan tier, and your expiry date (or Lifetime).
- Products — a card for each product you own (the Flavor Starter Theme, the WP eCommerce Core plugin), showing the installed version. When a newer version exists, an Update to vX.Y.Z button appears on the card; if a product isn't installed or active yet, you'll see an Install or Activate button instead. Flavor Core itself has its own small status line at the top and updates the same way.
- Components — the individual pieces that make up your store (payment gateways, couriers, ERP modules, theme modules), grouped into Theme, Plugin and Core tabs. Each shows its version, with an Update badge when one is available.
- Update controls — Check for Updates (Flavor also checks on its own twice a day) and Verify License, plus a "Last checked… ago" line.
- Manage your license — Deactivate License (to move it to another domain) and Manage on Hub.
If your license expires
If a license lapses, the Dashboard switches to a read-only view. Your products stay installed and your store keeps running, but updates pause, premium components lock, and support access is disabled until you renew. A Renew License button takes you to your Hub portal.
As renewal approaches — and again if a license expires — a banner appears in your admin with an Activate grace period option that keeps premium features working for a set number of days while you renew. Full details in License Activation.
What you manage from the Dashboard
| Task | Where | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Activate or deactivate your license | Welcome screen / Deactivate License | License Activation |
| Install your Theme, Plugin and Flavor Core | Install / Install All Products | License Activation |
| Update products and components | Update to vX.Y.Z / Update badges | Automatic Updates |
| Roll a product or component back | Flavor → Rollback | Rolling back |
| Choose Stable or Beta updates | Flavor → Settings | Release Channels |
The Flavor menu
Clicking Flavor in the admin sidebar opens the main Flavor page (this Dashboard). The menu holds a few more screens alongside it:
- Flavor — the main page, this Dashboard: license, products, components and updates.
- Flavor AI — connect your store to AI for content generation and read-only agent access. See AI Access and AI Content.
- Settings — choose your update channel (Stable or Beta). See Release Channels.
- Rollback — return any product or component to its previous version. See Rolling back.
- Debug — a built-in log viewer for troubleshooting. See Debug System.
Related pages
- License Activation — activate, deactivate, and the grace period
- Automatic Updates — how updates work, and how to roll back
- Release Channels — Stable vs. Beta updates