[SMTNC-1844] Add a reusable activation URL API by dave-green-uk · Pull Request #181 · stellarwp/harbor

dave-green-uk · 2026-07-22T12:54:03Z

🎫 SMTNC-1844. Parent: SMTNC-1833. Related: stellarwp/kadence-blocks-pro#299

Summary

Onboarding screens across our plugins need an "Activate" button like the one on Harbor's Software Manager page. The only copy of that logic lived inline in Harbor's own admin page — not a method, not a service, not reachable from a host plugin. So every plugin hand-rolls the portal's query string, and the copies drift the moment the portal changes a param. That is already happening in kadence-blocks-pro#299.

Harbor now builds those URLs itself and hands them to host plugins through its stable global function API.

Two things that were broken get fixed along the way:

Activating sent you back to the wrong place. The return destination was hardcoded to Harbor's own page, so a user activating from a plugin's onboarding screen never came back to it. Callers now supply their own.
You came back to stale data. Licensing data is cached, so the screen you landed on still believed you were unlicensed — Activate button still there, feature still locked. The return trip now refreshes automatically, on whatever screen the plugin nominated. Host plugins need no code for this.

Artifacts

No visual change to Harbor's own UI — the Software Manager page renders exactly as before.

What Changed

New public API. Four global functions, version-keyed like the rest of the lw_harbor_* surface, so they always resolve to the loaded, highest-version copy and a consumer never builds a class from its own possibly-stale vendor tree.

Function	Returns
`lw_harbor_get_product_activation_base_url( ?string $redirect_url )`	Portal subscriptions URL — referral, domain, tagged redirect. `?string`
`lw_harbor_get_product_activation_url( string $slug, ?string $redirect_url )`	The same plus `sku={slug}[:{tier}]`, tier resolved internally. `?string`
`lw_harbor_has_product_entitlement( string $slug )`	Whether the license covers the product at all, activated here or not. `bool`
`lw_harbor_product_needs_activation( string $slug )`	Entitled but not activated here — the one state a prompt is for. `bool`

New internals

Portal\Activation\Url — builds the URLs and resolves the licensed tier itself.
Portal\Activation\Return_Handler — watches any admin screen for the return tag, refreshes licensing and catalog, strips the tag, redirects. All on admin_init, so pages render against current data.
License_Repository::get_product_tier() — the tier a product is licensed at; null when absent or licensed at several.
docs/guides/activation-urls.md — the consumer-facing guide.

Changed

Feature_Manager_Page takes Url in its constructor; the inline http_build_query() block that produced harborData.activationUrl becomes $this->activation_url->get_base(). The container autowires, so nothing outside the tests needed updating.
Feature_Manager_Page::maybe_redirect_after_refresh() is deprecated and no longer hooked — _deprecated_function() as well as the docblock tag, since the class is not final and the method is public.
Portal\Provider registers the two new singletons and one admin_init hook at priority 0.
The default return URL moves from admin.php?page=lw-software-manager&refresh=auto to options-general.php?page=lw-software-manager&lw-harbor-activated=1. Both page forms resolve to the same screen; the second is the page's canonical address.
The test suite drops uopz_allow_exit( false ) for a TestException thrown from the call immediately before the exit(). Suppressing the exit let a failing test carry on past the point it should have stopped, leaving the failure unreported.

Reviewer Notes

The tier is not an argument. Every caller wanted the licensed one and none had another use for the value, so Url::for_product() resolves it. A license covering the product at several tiers resolves to nothing, the sku goes out unscoped, and the portal shows its own picker rather than us guessing. Confirmed with the portal side that a bare sku is supported and still scopes to the domain.
has_product_entitlement() and product_needs_activation() are a pair. The second is what most consumers want. The first exists for a screen that needs the entitled and activated states apart — one showing both "Activate" and "Manage". Asking only whether a product is active offers activation to someone with no entitlement.
The URL functions return null, not an empty string. An empty string is still a string: paste it into an href and you get a link to the current page. Null cannot be used by accident.
redirect_url must be an admin URL. Return_Handler only runs on admin_init, so a front-end destination would never refresh and would leave the tag stuck in the URL.
Url::RETURN_PARAM is public but internal. Return_Handler, its sibling in the same namespace, reads it to recognise the return trip and strip the tag; PHP offers nothing narrower. Marked internal, absent from the docs.
The tag is namespaced (lw-harbor-activated), not something generic like refresh. It rides on a URL owned by the calling plugin and must not collide with their params.
PHP_QUERY_RFC3986 is deliberate. add_query_arg() is RFC1738 and would send the portal + for a space and %7E for a tilde inside redirect_url.
Return_Handler is resolved before the tag is checked, so the handler owns the whole question of whether a request is a return trip. Its three dependencies are already singletons, so a normal admin request costs one object construction.
Leadership is checked before the capability check, and the two are one conditional: whether this copy acts is a question about the install, the capability is about the user in front of it. manage_options, because the tag can land on a screen with no check of its own.
The deprecated method has no test coverage. Its old tests exercised the refresh=auto path, which is no longer hooked, so they were removed rather than rewritten against a deprecated method.

Changed since the earlier review rounds, for anyone re-reading an older diff or comment thread:

The $tier argument was removed from lw_harbor_get_product_activation_url(); the tier is resolved internally now.
lw_harbor_is_product_licensed() was renamed lw_harbor_has_product_entitlement(), and lw_harbor_product_needs_activation() was added alongside it.
lw_harbor_get_product_tier() was never exposed — the tier lookup stayed internal to License_Repository.
Utils\Assets and its tests were dropped, as was the browser-side activation helper. Build URLs in PHP and hand them to your script.

Follow-ups, not in this PR

Per-product activation URL in the REST license payload, so a consumer whose tier arrives asynchronously — kadence-blocks-pro#299 is the live case — can drop its own URL building.
kadence-blocks-pro#299 adopting lw_harbor_get_product_activation_base_url() once this tags, replacing its hand-rolled query string and HarborConfig:: reach.
Removing the function_exists() guards in the consumer plugins once each bumps its bundled Harbor.

Testing

Setup: a site with a unified license key stored, at least one premium plugin bundling this branch, and a portal account that can activate against the site's domain.

Software Manager page — no visible change. Open Settings → Software Manager. The Activate buttons behave exactly as before. Inspect one: the URL carries portal-referral=plugin, domain, and a percent-encoded redirect_url ending options-general.php?page=lw-software-manager&lw-harbor-activated=1.
The return trip. Activate a product in the portal and come back. The screen must already reflect the activation — no manual refresh, no stale Activate button. The URL briefly carries lw-harbor-activated=1, then redirects to the clean URL.
A host plugin's own screen. Build a URL with lw_harbor_get_product_activation_url( '{slug}', menu_page_url( '{your-page}', false ) ), activate through it, and confirm you land back on that page with current licensing state.
Unscoped activation. With a license covering a product at more than one tier, the URL carries a bare sku={slug} with no trailing colon, and the portal presents its own picker scoped to the domain.
Multiple Harbor copies. With two or more plugins bundling different Harbor versions active, the return-trip refresh happens exactly once, from the highest version.
?refresh=auto no longer does anything. Visit options-general.php?page=lw-software-manager&refresh=auto. No refresh, no redirect, param left in the URL. That handler is deprecated by design.

The PHP suite has not run locally. composer install fails on a clean checkout: lucatume/tdd-helpers and lucatume/wp-utils both return "Repository not found" from GitHub. They are transitive dev dependencies of the Codeception tooling and appear to have been deleted or made private upstream — unrelated to this branch, and worth its own ticket. The PHP tests here are written but have only been exercised in CI.

Integration note — Strauss classmap

Validated against a real install by injecting the API into The Events Calendar's Strauss-prefixed vendor tree (TEC\Common\LiquidWeb\Harbor). The service resolved from TEC's container and produced correct URLs for all three call shapes.

One constraint worth knowing before rolling this out: TEC's Strauss autoloader runs setClassMapAuthoritative(true), so PSR-4 is bypassed and new Harbor classes do not load until the classmap is regenerated. A normal composer update stellarwp/harbor handles it; dropping files in by hand will not.

The lw_harbor_* global functions sidestep this entirely — their shells load via Composer's files autoloader rather than the classmap, and they resolve the service from the leader internally, so a consumer calls a function that is always present and never references the new class.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added reusable activation URL tools for product and tier-specific licensing flows.
- Added licensing checks and product-tier lookups.
- Activation returns now refresh licensing and catalog data automatically before safely returning to the original page.
Documentation
- Added comprehensive guidance for activation URLs, redirects, refresh behavior, tier handling, and integration.
Tests
- Expanded coverage for activation URLs, licensing lookups, return handling, encoding, permissions, and error scenarios.

Product onboarding screens need an Activate button equivalent to the one in Harbor's LicenseProductCard, but the logic for building a portal activation URL lived in two private places: assembled inline inside wp_localize_script() on the Feature Manager page, and in a JS helper shipped only in Harbor's own admin bundle. Neither was reachable from a host plugin. Extract it into an Activation_Url service and expose the JS helper as a shared, leader-gated script handle. Callers pass product, tier and return URL as parameters, so no user-supplied URL reaches the REST layer and the open-redirect surface a pre-baked URL would create never exists. The script handle and window global are deliberately not vendor-prefixed. Strauss rewrites class names but not strings, so every Harbor copy on the site agrees on them, which is what lets a single registration serve all of them. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

linear · 2026-07-22T12:54:06Z

SMTNC-1844

SMTNC-1834

The default return destination was built as admin.php?page=lw-software-manager, but the Software Manager is registered as a submenu of Settings. WordPress resolves a plugin page by a hook name derived from its parent, so the admin.php form looks up admin_page_lw-software-manager while the page is registered as settings_page_lw-software-manager. The lookup misses and the request ends in wp_die( 'Cannot load lw-software-manager.' ). The effect was that a user who activated a product in the portal was returned to an error page rather than the Software Manager. The rest of the codebase already used the options-general.php form: the Global_Function_Registry accessor, the Feature_Manager_Page docblock, and the JS helper's own test fixture. Only the redirect builder disagreed. Bring it into line and add a regression test. Also document how to pick a correct return URL, since a consumer registering a submenu can hit exactly the same trap, and fix an undefined variable in the guide's enqueue example. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

The guide claimed a consumer enqueuing earlier than priority 0 would lose a race against Harbor's registration. That is wrong. WordPress resolves script dependencies in WP_Dependencies::all_deps() when scripts are printed, not when they are enqueued, and admin_enqueue_scripts always runs before admin_print_scripts. Any consumer enqueuing on admin_enqueue_scripts is in time whatever priority it uses. Priority 0 is still worth keeping as a defensive measure for anything that prints scripts by hand, but the documented hazard overstated the risk and would have pushed integrating plugins into unnecessary hook gymnastics. The genuine failure mode is Harbor not being present on the request at all. Describe that instead. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

The previous commit claimed admin.php?page=lw-software-manager left the user on a "Cannot load" error page. That is wrong. Verified against a real install: both admin.php and options-general.php return HTTP 200 and render the Software Manager. The earlier analysis stopped at get_plugin_page_hookname() and assumed the parent stayed admin.php. It does not. get_admin_page_parent() scans the registered submenu, matches the plugin page, and returns its real parent, so the hook resolves to settings_page_lw-software-manager and the page loads normally. Keep the options-general.php form, since it is the page's canonical address and matches every other link to it in the codebase, but describe it as the consistency change it is. Rename the test accordingly and drop its assertion that admin.php is absent, which pinned a behaviour that was never broken. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

The repository dictionary is US English and the spell check rejected "behaviour". SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

Licensing data is cached, so a site that has just activated a product in the portal still believes it is unlicensed when the user lands back on it. Anything gated on that data is wrong on arrival: an Activate button that should have disappeared is still there, a feature that should be available is still locked. Harbor's own page already worked around this with a refresh=auto param and a handler bound to its page slug, but a host plugin's return URL got nothing. Generalise it. Activation_Url now tags every return URL it builds, whichever page the caller nominated, and Activation_Return watches for that tag on any admin screen. It refreshes the license products and the catalog, strips the tag, and redirects, all on admin_init so the page renders against current data. Host plugins need no code for this. Sending a user through a URL from Activation_Url is the whole opt-in, which is the point: the alternative was every plugin reimplementing the same handler and any that forgot shipping the stale-state bug. The tag is namespaced rather than called something generic like "refresh", because it rides on a URL owned by the calling plugin and must not collide with their own params. The handler checks manage_options for the same reason: it can land on a screen that does not gate on that capability itself. It also sits behind the usual version leadership check, so four active Liquid Web plugins make one API call between them rather than four. Harbor's page-specific handler and its refresh=auto param are removed rather than left alongside, and its tests move to the new class. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

Three things the previous commit broke, all caught by CI: Feature_Manager_Page kept a Catalog_Repository it no longer reads, since the refresh that used it now lives in Activation_Return. PHPStan flagged the write-only property. Drop the dependency rather than leave it dangling; the container autowires the constructor, so only the test needed updating. Activation_Return called the debug trait statically, which phpcs rejects in a final class. Use self:: instead. The new test unset $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in teardown, which left the suite without one and killed the run after the last test. Restore the original value instead. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

Removing the Catalog_Repository parameter left the type column padded to the width of a type that is no longer there. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

The handler runs on admin_init, so it is reached on every admin page load, and resolving it constructs License_Manager and with it the licensing HTTP client. Almost no admin request is a return trip from the portal, so that construction was wasted on nearly all of them. Check for the tag in the provider first and only resolve when it is there. The handler keeps its own check so it stays correct and testable on its own. SMTNC-1844 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BQPHeqkVhHwUUeaem4Rc8M

dave-green-uk · 2026-07-23T11:30:46Z

@redscar Do we need to test this in a staging/dev environment or are we just merging when the reviewer has approved? I tagged you for a re-review as I added a couple of new commits after battle testing it with the TEC changes.

redscar · 2026-07-23T11:33:34Z

@redscar Do we need to test this in a staging/dev environment or are we just merging when the reviewer has approved? I tagged you for a re-review as I added a couple of new commits after battle testing it with the TEC changes.

That's a great question. I'm not positive how we tested Harbor in the past. Maybe we should reach out to QA to figure out a game plan?

Consumers were told to resolve Activation_Url from the container, which ties them to whichever Harbor version's class their own copy ships rather than the loaded, highest-version one. Add lw_harbor_get_activation_url() and lw_harbor_get_product_activation_url() -- version-keyed global functions, the stable public API -- wrapping Activation_Url::get_base() and for_product(). Point the activation-URL guide and the API reference at the functions instead of the class. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011uxoDruAaZXzRy3hk8mr4W

dave-green-uk · 2026-07-24T15:04:50Z

@d4mation @redscar Could I ask for some 👀 on this additional commit please guys? dc9f24f

It adds something Eric requested in the LD PR I've worked on to consume this. Thanks!

redscar

Look's like you have a failing test. Other than that, the code looks good to me.

MD060 (aligned) flagged the two tables added for the activation-URL global functions -- the new rows pushed their column past the header pipe. Re-align both: the README function table and the guide's "From PHP" table. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011uxoDruAaZXzRy3hk8mr4W

dave-green-uk · 2026-07-24T15:43:04Z

@redscar test fixed and has passed 👍

Build the default redirect with add_query_arg() rather than concatenating a query onto admin_url(). Explain why both Portal provider hooks run at priority 0: the script has to be registered before anything enqueues it by handle, and the return trip has to be handled before any screen reads the data it refreshes. Restore Feature_Manager_Page::maybe_redirect_after_refresh() as deprecated. The class is not final and the method is public, so a consumer could be calling it. It stays unhooked, and resolves the catalog from the container so the constructor keeps taking Activation_Url. Pin the RFC3986 query encoding with a test. It is what separates http_build_query() from add_query_arg() here: redirect_url carries a whole URL, and RFC1738 would encode a space as "+" and a tilde as "%7E". Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019G9uUzMJSWzoFatSxvzGoW

Suppressing exit() with uopz_allow_exit() lets a failing test carry on past the point it should have stopped, which can leave the failure unreported. Tests now stand in for the call immediately before the exit and throw, so execution stops where production would end. Activation_ReturnTest mocks wp_safe_redirect(). The three CLI command tests mock WP_CLI::error(), which logs before it exits, so the stand-in writes to the spy logger first and every existing assertion on it holds. Feature_Manager_PageTest needed no stand-in: none of its cases reaches an exit, so its guard and the stale $_GET cleanup were dead code. Dropped the redundant $_GET unset in Activation_ReturnTest too, since the WP test case already clears superglobals between methods. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019G9uUzMJSWzoFatSxvzGoW

…for-php-and-js' of https://github.com/stellarwp/harbor into smtnc-1844-harbor-expose-a-reusable-activation-url-api-for-php-and-js

coderabbitai · 2026-08-14T17:59:05Z

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This PR adds reusable Liquid Web activation URL APIs, product licensing and tier lookups, and centralized licensing refresh handling after activation returns. It removes the feature-page refresh hook, updates documentation, and expands unit and JavaScript test coverage.

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Activation API and return flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Activation URL and licensing API `src/Harbor/Portal/Activation/Url.php`, `src/Harbor/API/Functions/`, `src/Harbor/global-functions.php`, `src/Harbor/Licensing/Repositories/License_Repository.php`, `docs/guides/activation-urls.md`, `changelog/`, `tests/wpunit/API/Functions/*`, `tests/wpunit/Portal/Activation/UrlTest.php`, `tests/js/lib/activation-url.test.ts`	Adds base and product activation URL builders, licensing and tier lookups, global wrappers, registry callbacks, documentation, changelog records, and URL/API tests.
Activation-return refresh flow `src/Harbor/Portal/Activation/Return_Handler.php`, `src/Harbor/Portal/Provider.php`, `src/Harbor/Admin/Feature_Manager_Page.php`, `tests/wpunit/Portal/Activation/Return_HandlerTest.php`, `tests/wpunit/Admin/Feature_Manager_PageTest.php`	Moves activation-return refresh handling to `Return_Handler`, wires it to `admin_init`, updates the feature-page activation payload, and deprecates the previous refresh method.
CLI error test interception `tests/_support/Helper/TestException.php`, `tests/wpunit/CLI/Commands/*`	Replaces `uopz` exit suppression with exception-based `WP_CLI::error()` interception while preserving logger assertions.

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Activation returns to front-end destinations may leave licensing state stale, while crafted activation markers can trigger cache-refresh work from an administrator URL. The PR is not merge-ready until return handling supports all documented destinations and the marker is authenticated or otherwise restricted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Liquid Web Portal
  participant Return_Handler
  participant License_Manager
  participant Catalog_Repository
  Liquid Web Portal->>Return_Handler: Return with lw-harbor-activated=1
  Return_Handler->>License_Manager: Refresh license products
  Return_Handler->>Catalog_Repository: Refresh catalog data
  Return_Handler->>Return_Handler: Remove the return parameter
  Return_Handler->>Liquid Web Portal: Redirect to the current page

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In `@src/Harbor/Portal/Activation/Return_Handler.php`:
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Return_Handler's licensing refresh only runs on admin_init, so a front-end redirect_url would silently skip the refresh and leave the lw-harbor-activated tag stuck in the URL. The guide already documented this; the class docblocks callers actually read did not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ument [SMTNC-1844] lw_harbor_get_product_tier() had one caller shape across all four onboarding PRs: fetch the tier, hand it straight back to lw_harbor_get_product_activation_url() on the next line. Nothing did anything else with the value, so it was a public function whose only job was to feed another public function. Both it and the $tier argument are gone. Activation\Url takes License_Repository and resolves the tier itself: lw_harbor_get_product_activation_url( string $slug, ?string $redirect_url = null ) The API loses two pieces of surface rather than gaining one, and callers can no longer get the SKU wrong. Where the license covers a product at several tiers nothing is guessed: the SKU goes out unscoped and the portal offers its own picker, which is the behaviour we had before. A failed lookup still costs the tier rather than the URL, logged through With_Debugging exactly as the removed registry callback did, so an unscoped SKU reaches the portal instead of a null URL leaving the caller with no activation link. Dropping the argument removes the null-versus-empty-string distinction an optional tier would have needed, and with it the guide's "localize one URL per tier" example. That pattern was discussed on this PR and set aside: sending the user to the portal shows them their whole account, which is the better screen. License_Repository is final and cannot be doubled, so UrlTest seeds the option the real repository reads rather than standing a mock in front of it, and reaches for uopz only where a thrown error has to be simulated. Nothing here has shipped. Neither the function nor the argument exists on main or in any release tag, so no consumer in the wild can regress. The four onboarding PRs are unmerged and are updated alongside this.

[SMTNC-1833] Harbor no longer takes a tier for the activation URL. It resolves the tier the license covers the calendar at itself, so the lookup and the argument both go. The behaviour is the same: where the key covers the calendar at one tier the portal pre-selects that subscription, and where it covers several the SKU goes out unscoped and the portal offers its own picker. We simply no longer ask for the value in order to hand it straight back. This PR is closed and the work is moving into the pro plugin. The change is made here so the branch stays an accurate reference for that refactor rather than a snapshot of an API that no longer exists. Requires stellarwp/harbor#181.

[SMTNC-1836] Harbor no longer takes a tier for the activation URL. It resolves the tier the license covers GiveWP at itself, so the lookup and the argument both go. The behaviour is the same: where the key covers GiveWP at one tier the portal pre-selects that subscription, and where it covers several the SKU goes out unscoped and the portal offers its own picker. We simply no longer ask for the value in order to hand it straight back. This PR is closed and the work is moving into the pro plugin. The change is made here so the branch stays an accurate reference for that refactor rather than a snapshot of an API that no longer exists. Requires stellarwp/harbor#181.

dave-green-uk · 2026-08-27T13:59:01Z

Updated the two open consumers:

https://github.com/stellarwp/learndash-core/commit/04ca06fd36de9c340a84ea23fc3b96cd392ba62f
https://github.com/stellarwp/kadence-pro/commit/2e821de7fbe41380a429213dd463dfc1290c5fba

[SMTNC-1844] lw_harbor_is_product_licensed() sat one word away from the released lw_harbor_is_product_license_active() and both carried "license", which is a confusing pair to hand consumers. It is now lw_harbor_has_product_entitlement(), using the term the licensing API already uses — Error_Code::NO_ENTITLEMENT reads "No entitlement exists for this product under the license". The released name could not move, so the new one does the work of telling them apart. The rename is free: the old name has never shipped. Also adds lw_harbor_product_needs_activation(), which pairs the two. The guide asked consumers to write the conditional themselves, and of the four onboarding plugins only Kadence did — LearnDash, The Events Calendar and GiveWP each check activation alone, so they offer an activation prompt to someone with no entitlement and send them to a portal with nothing for them. A rule three of four consumers got wrong does not belong in each consumer. Both reads in the wrapper go through one resolved repository rather than the two global shells, so one answer cannot be assembled from two Harbor copies. lw_harbor_has_product_entitlement() stays public: a screen that shows "Activate" and "Manage" separately needs the two states apart, which is what Kadence's licence button does.

[SMTNC-1833] get_activation_url() gated on is_activated() alone, so a site whose key carries no entitlement was still offered the button — and sent to a portal with nothing for them. Harbor now answers the paired question directly, so the gate becomes needs_activation(): entitled, and not yet activated here. is_activated() stays: the landing page reads it separately to decide between the activate and manage links, which the paired question cannot express on its own. The premium-plugin gate still runs first and is unchanged. A free site has nothing a license would unlock, whatever the entitlement says. This PR is closed and the work is moving into the pro plugin. The change is made here so the branch stays an accurate reference for that refactor. Requires stellarwp/harbor#181.

[SMTNC-1836] getActivationUrl() gated on isActivated() alone, so a site whose key carries no entitlement was still offered the button — and sent to a portal with nothing for them. Harbor now answers the paired question directly, so the gate becomes needsActivation(): entitled, and not yet activated here. isActivated() stays: PageView reads it separately to decide what the setup step shows, which the paired question cannot express on its own. The premium-addons gate still runs first and is unchanged. A site running no premium add-ons has nothing a license would unlock, whatever the entitlement says. This PR is closed and the work is moving into the pro plugin. The change is made here so the branch stays an accurate reference for that refactor. Requires stellarwp/harbor#181.

jonwaldstein

I think this is good now haha 😄

dave-green-uk · 2026-09-01T08:47:05Z

@jonwaldstein amazing, thanks. appreciate the guidance on this one!

dave-green-uk · 2026-09-01T11:28:01Z

@lirianojoel @vicskf this PR has passed CR and is ready for review. The four PRs that consume these changes won't be tested at this stage. Two of them are ready (LD and Kadence Pro), but I have work to do for TEC and maybe also Give before that block of work is ready. This PR is also blocking https://github.com/stellarwp/kadence-blocks-pro/pull/299 so we need to move it forward now.

Here's a summary I worked up with Claude to highlight where the QA focus needs to be:

Most of this PR is new surface that nothing existing touches: four new lw_harbor_* functions, the Portal\Activation\Url and Return_Handler classes, License_Repository::get_product_tier(), the guide, and the changelog entries. None of that changes behaviour on an install that ignores it.

The rows below are the parts that do change existing behaviour. These are the regression surface.

#	Change	Before → after	What QA should check
1	Return-trip refresh moved off Harbor's page onto every admin screen	Only `lw-software-manager` refreshed, via `?refresh=auto` → any admin screen carrying `lw-harbor-activated=1` refreshes licensing + catalog, strips the tag, then redirects	The redirect and two API calls now happen on a screen Harbor previously never touched. Confirm the landing page reflects the activation immediately, the tag is stripped, and nothing on that page breaks mid-render.
2	`?refresh=auto` no longer does anything	Hooked on `admin_init`, refreshed and redirected → deprecated, unhooked, inert	Visit `options-general.php?page=lw-software-manager&refresh=auto`. Expect no refresh, no redirect, param left in place. A round trip started before the upgrade lands with stale data — acceptable, but worth seeing once.
3	`harborData.activationUrl` value changed	`redirect_url` held `admin.php?page=lw-software-manager&refresh=auto` → now `options-general.php?page=lw-software-manager&lw-harbor-activated=1`	Same destination screen, different string. Check the Software Manager Activate buttons still work end to end, and that anything portal-side matching on that URL still matches.
4	The refresh now requires `manage_options`	Implicit — only Harbor's own page ran it, and that page already gated → explicit capability check on any screen	A returning user below `manage_options` gets no refresh and no redirect: stale data, and `lw-harbor-activated=1` left in the URL. Test if any onboarding flow is reachable by a non-admin.
5	Mixed-version installs — the highest bundled Harbor must carry this branch	n/a → the activation functions return `null` when the leader is an older copy	With an older Harbor as the highest version, the new functions return `null` and a host plugin should hide its Activate button. Confirm it degrades to hidden, not to a dead link.
6	`Feature_Manager_Page` constructor gained a 4th argument	`(Data, License_Manager, Catalog_Repository)` → `(Data, License_Manager, Url, Catalog_Repository)`	The container autowires, so Harbor itself is fine. The class is public and not final — anything constructing it directly breaks. Nothing in-repo does.
7	New `admin_init` hook at priority 0, in every bundled copy	n/a → runs on every admin page load, and on `admin-ajax.php` / `admin-post.php`, which also fire `admin_init`	Cost is one object construction per request (its three dependencies are already singletons), then a `$_GET` check. Worth a sanity pass on admin responsiveness and on AJAX-heavy screens.
8	`Feature_Manager_Page::maybe_redirect_after_refresh()` deprecated	Silent → emits a `_deprecated_function()` notice when called	With `WP_DEBUG` on, anything still calling it produces a notice. Nothing in-repo calls it.
9	Test-only changes	`uopz_allow_exit( false )` → a `TestException` thrown just before the `exit()`; the old `refresh=auto` tests removed; JS fixture updated to the new tag	No product impact. Flagged only because it touches three CLI test files and `Feature_Manager_PageTest`. The deprecated method is now untested.

The two worth the most QA time are #1 and #4 — a redirect firing on screens Harbor didn't previously own, and a capability gate that fails quietly rather than loudly.

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Add license activation to guided setup and the Setup Guide the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar#5708

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