Enabling and Removing Addons

What an addon is

An addon is a modular section of your website that SiteGlowUp can add with one click. Today we offer:

• Blog — publish posts and share updates
• Portfolio — showcase projects and case studies
• Contact Form — collect leads and messages
• Gallery — display photos in a grid
• Calendar — show upcoming events
• Shop — sell products

Each addon has its own page on your site, its own link in your navigation, and its own dedicated management page inside the dashboard.

The Addons tab

Everything happens from Dashboard > Addons. The page has two sections:

• Active addons — the ones currently on your site. Each card shows a live count (e.g., "7 posts," "3 submissions"), a Manage link to its dedicated page, and a Remove button
• Available addons — the ones you haven't turned on yet. Each card shows an Enable button

Enabling an addon

1. Find the addon in the Available section
2. Click Enable
3. We deploy a starter page, wire it into your navigation, and move the card to the Active section
4. Click Manage to start adding content

Enabling is instant and free. It just adds a page + nav link — no billing event, no pipeline run.

Smart Enable for the contact form

If your site already has a working contact form (common when we've redesigned an existing site), enabling the Contact Form addon does not overwrite it. Instead, we patch the form you already have — wiring its submit button into our backend and adding invisible spam protection. Your copy, design, and field layout are preserved.

If no form exists, we deploy a simple starter form you can edit later.

Managing an addon

Click Manage on any Active card to open its dedicated page:

• Blog — list, create, edit, publish, and delete posts; run AI generation; import from your old site
• Portfolio — add, edit, and reorder projects; import from your old site
• Contact Form — read submissions, configure the notification email, edit the success message, run Repair (see below)
• Gallery — upload images and pick a layout
• Calendar — add events
• Shop — manage products, inventory, and orders

Each page lives at its own URL inside the dashboard, so you can bookmark it or share the link with a teammate.

Removing an addon

1. Find the addon in the Active section
2. Click Remove
3. Confirm in the prompt

Removing an addon:

• Strips its link from your site's navigation
• Hides the public page(s)
• Keeps your content in storage so nothing is lost

If you re-enable the same addon later, your posts, products, submissions, and settings come right back. This is deliberate — the remove action is reversible, and your work is safe.

Costs

Enabling or removing an addon doesn't cost anything. You only pay when:

• You use AI to generate or import content (see the pricing shown on each action)
• A submission or transaction incurs an outside fee (Stripe fees for the shop, for example)

Older dashboards

The Addons tab used to be a single long page where you enabled and managed everything inline. We split management into dedicated pages so each addon can have its own workflow, history, and settings. If you're following older instructions that say "scroll down on the Addons page to edit posts," the equivalent is now: Addons > click Manage on the Blog card > the new Blog management page.