What is the Alert Frequency report and how does it work?

Alert Frequency option is a part of the Reporting section of the Shield Security plugin.

You can use it to decide when you should be sent important and critical alerts about your site security.

The all scans actions will be included in the Alert report.

To set the alert frequency, simply select the frequency you’d like for the report, and click to Save settings:

How does the Alert Frequency work?

To explain how this option works, we'll use an example.

Let's say you'd like to receive email alerts every hour, and you have Shield scans turned on.

You'll get email alert report about the detected files, and email subject will be [Your Site Name] Site Report - Shield.

Report will look like this (example):

The all repaired/deleted files will be sent in the report too. For example:

For more details about the repaired/deleted files, you can use Activity Log.