Getting started
Licence & updates
Activate with your Envato purchase code for automatic updates and the NovaKit Library. NovaSpark and NovaKit work fully without it.
NovaKit works without activating. Every feature, every widget, every setting. Activating adds two things: WordPress tells you when a new version is available, and the NovaKit Library — ready-made blocks, pages and templates — opens in the Elementor editor. Your own saved templates work either way.
What activating does #
| Activated | Not activated | |
|---|---|---|
| Install and activate | Yes | Yes |
| Every feature and widget | Yes | Yes |
| “Update available” in WordPress | Yes | No |
| Getting a new version | One click | Download and upload by hand |
| NovaKit Library: blocks, pages and templates | Yes, kept current | No |
| Your own saved templates in the Library | Yes | Yes |
There is no trial, and nothing switches off when support ends. A site that was running yesterday keeps running.
Find your purchase code #
- Sign in at ThemeForest.
- Open the menu under your avatar and choose Downloads.
- Find NovaSpark in the list.
- Click Download beside it and choose Licence certificate & purchase code (either the PDF or the text file — both contain the same code).
- The purchase code looks like
8f3b21c4-5d6e-47a9-b0c1-2e3f4a5b6c7d.
Activating #
- In WordPress, go to NovaKit → Dashboard.
- Find the Updates & Library card.
- Paste your purchase code and press Activate.
The indicator in the corner of that card turns green and reads On. From then on NovaKit and NovaSpark update like any other plugin and theme — a notice, and one click to install — and the NovaKit Library opens in the Elementor editor. Press Sync in the Library for anything published since.
Tick Email me release notes before activating if you would like an email when a new version comes out. It is off unless you tick it.
Bought directly, or had a site built for you? You were given a
licence key (it looks like NK-A1B2-C3D4-E5F6) — paste it into the
same field. If you cannot find it,
open a support ticket
with the email address on the purchase.
What is sent, and why
Activating sends your purchase code and this site’s address to our licence
server at updates.unistudio.co, which asks Envato to confirm the purchase.
After that, WordPress’s own update check sends the site address, the licence and
the installed version, roughly twice a day. Nothing else leaves your site, and nothing
is sent at all until you activate. Your email is sent only if you tick
Email me release notes.
Staging and testing sites
One purchase covers three sites: your live site plus a staging and a
testing copy. Local development sites — addresses ending in .local or
.test, localhost, and private network addresses — never
count. http/https and www versions of one site
count once.
Moving a site? Press Deactivate on the old one first; that frees its place for the new one. If the old site is already gone, open a support ticket and we will free it.
When support ends #
Nothing changes. Automatic updates and the NovaKit Library keep working for the life of your purchase — Envato item support covers help from us, not updates. Extend support on ThemeForest whenever you would like our help again.
If it does not work #
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| That purchase code was not recognised | Usually a partial copy — check for a missing character at either end. It must be a NovaSpark purchase code; one from another item will not work. |
| This purchase code is already active on 3 sites | The message lists them. Deactivate it on one (NovaKit → Dashboard → Updates & Library → Deactivate), then activate here. |
| This key expired on… | Only a licence key we issued with an end date shows this — one for custom work, say. Envato purchase codes do not expire. Contact us to renew it. |
| Could not reach the licence server or We could not reach Envato just now | A network problem, ours, Envato’s or your host’s. Nothing is lost — an already-active site stays active, and you can simply try again in a few minutes. |
| No update appears, but it says On | WordPress caches update information for up to twelve hours. Press Re-check on the Updates & Library card to ask again now. |
Updating without activating #
Entirely supported, and nothing nags you about it. The NovaKit Library is the one part that needs activating.
- Download the latest NovaKit Core from your ThemeForest downloads, or from the link in your purchase email.
- In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
- Choose the ZIP and press Install Now, then Replace current with uploaded.
Your settings, demos and content are untouched — a plugin update replaces the plugin’s own files and nothing else. Taking a backup first is still good practice.