Settings

The Settings tab controls automatic audits and alerts. All three options are on by default.

Setting	Default	What it does	When to change it
Daily audit	On	Runs an audit once a day with WP-Cron. The next scheduled run is shown under the checkbox.	Turn off on sites where you only audit manually or from CI, or on staging copies that should not keep history.
Audit after plugin changes	On	Runs an audit one minute after any plugin is installed or updated. Theme and translation updates do not trigger it.	Turn off if you update many plugins at once on a very large site and prefer to audit by hand afterwards.
Email alerts	On	Emails the site admin address when an automatic audit finds new high or critical problems. Known problems are not repeated.	Turn off if another person receives the alerts, or change the recipients with the abau_notification_recipients filter.

Click Save settings to apply. Saving reschedules the daily event to match the setting straight away.

WP-Cron timing#

WP-Cron runs when the site gets traffic, so the daily audit happens on the first visit after it becomes due. For exact timing, trigger wp-cron.php from a system cron job, or run wp ability-audit run from WP-CLI on a schedule of your own.

License#

Below the settings form, a License section links to the license screen with Manage license. See License.