Scheduled Audits

Ability Auditor can audit your site without you remembering to.

Daily audit#

• On by default. Turn it off on the Settings tab.
• Uses a WP-Cron event named abau_scheduled_audit, first scheduled one hour after activation (or after the setting is turned on), then daily.
• The Settings tab shows the next run time.
• The audit is saved to History with the trigger Daily.

Audit after plugin changes#

• On by default. Turn it off on the Settings tab.
• When a plugin is installed or updated, one audit is scheduled 60 seconds later. Theme and translation updates do not trigger it.
• Several changes in a row add only one event, so updating ten plugins at once leads to one audit.
• The delay is deliberate: the request that performs an update still has the old plugin code loaded, and a newly installed plugin is not active yet, so auditing immediately would give the wrong answer.
• Saved to History with the trigger After update.

No overlap#

A short lock (at most 10 minutes) stops two automatic audits from running at the same time. If the lock is held, the second run is skipped.

Timing#

WP-Cron only runs when the site receives a request. On a quiet site the daily audit may run later than shown. For exact timing, either call wp-cron.php from a real cron job, or disable WP-Cron and run wp ability-audit run on your own schedule.

Deactivation and uninstall#

• Deactivating the plugin removes the scheduled events. History and settings stay.
• Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen removes the history table, options, lock, scheduled events and license state, on every site of a multisite network.