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Installing Charitable Addons

Would you like to access Charitable addons to extend the functionality of your forms? Each Charitable license level comes with its own set of addons to help you get the most out of your forms.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install and activate addons in Charitable.

  1. Accessing the Charitable Addons Page
  2. Installing and Activating Addons
  3. Frequently Asked Questions

Before getting started, you’ll first need to make sure that Charitable is installed and activated on your WordPress site and that you’ve verified your license.

1. Accessing the Charitable Addons Page

In your WordPress admin area, navigate to Charitable » Addons to view the addons available with your license level.

To search for a specific addon, you can type its name into the Search Addons field located in the top-right corner of the page.

2. Installing and Activating Addons

To install a specific addon to your site, simply click on the Install Addon button.

This will automatically install and activate the addon for you. Any addon that’s installed and ready to use will show Status: Active.

You may deactivate an addon at any time by clicking on the Deactivate button. To reactivate an inactive addon, click on the Activate button.

Frequently Asked Questions

These are some of the most common questions we see regarding installing and activating addons in Charitable.

How do I install addons manually?

In some cases, you may see an error in Charitable that says, “Could not install addon. Please download from wpcharitable.com and install manually.”

To do so, log in to your Charitable account and go to the Downloads tab.

Then click on the download icon (it’s shaped like a down arrow) for the addon you want to install.

Upload the downloaded .zip file to WordPress and activate it like you would a normal plugin. For more information on installing WordPress plugins, check out this WPBeginner tutorial on installing WordPress plugins.

That’s it! You can now install and activate your addons.

Next, are you ready to start creating your campaigns? Or, if you’d like the setup steps for a specific addon, please check out our documentation for each addon.