How to Register Porto

Once Porto is installed, the next thing to do is to register your purchase using purchase code.

Without registering Porto, it is disabled to auto-update theme and plugins, install demos and import studio blocks.

To register Porto, just navigate Porto -> Dashboard or Porto -> Setup Wizard -> Activate.

According to the Envato licensing terms and conditions you need a license for only 1 website. Porto allows 1 live site licensing and 5 staging site licensing for testing purchase per purchase code. So you can setup 5 staging sites without any additional license. But it is required that the staging site is not publicly accessible and only accessible after admin login. This can be achieved by using a coming soon plugin or .htaccess restriction .

Following is the list of domain patterns of staging sites. We will register the domains which match the one of these patterns as the staging sites.

Domain patterns

• localhost
• 127.0.0.0
• 127.0.0.1
• test.*
• local.*
• dev.*
• staging.*
• website.*
• *.test
• *.local
• *.dev
• *.staging

Staging domains of hosting providers

• *.wpengine.com
• *.wpcomstaging.com
• *.flywheelstaging.com
• *.dreamhosters.com
• *.kinsta.cloud
• *.pantheonsite.io
• *.myftpupload.com
• *.cloudwaysapps.com
• *.staging.wpmu.host
• *.pressdns.com
• stagingN.* (where N is an unsigned integer)