Test live pages Pro
Scheduled page checks
Your key pages and templates, found for you, checked daily or weekly as a logged-out visitor — with an alert only when new errors appear.
Overview
Scheduled checks is a card on the Page checks screen, under Accessibility. Choose Daily, Weekly or Off under Run scheduled checks, keep "Include key templates automatically" ticked, and press Save. The first run starts at 03:00 site time the next day. The card shows Last run and Next run, and Run now starts a run straight away. Once your license is active, scheduled checks are set to Daily until you change them.
Each run fetches up to 25 pages from your own server as a logged-out visitor, with no cookies. Lumtera builds the list for you: your theme's key templates first, found automatically, then every page you have checked in your browser, then recently updated content. The templates are the home page, the posts page, your busiest category, tag and author archives, search results, a 404 page, WooCommerce's shop, cart, checkout and account pages, and the newest item of each content type Lumtera checks. Pages are processed five at a time in the background, so no single request has to load all 25.
A scheduled check runs the content checks and the page-level checks for title, language, a way to skip to the content and zoom on each page's HTML, without a browser or CSS. Its results replace the page's row, marked Scheduled, logged out, and keep the contrast findings from your last browser check. When a page has errors that were not there on its previous scheduled check, Lumtera sends one alert to your alert email and Slack, with a link to Page checks.
Why it matters
A plugin update, a new banner or a theme tweak can break accessibility on every page overnight. Whole-page review only runs when someone opens a page, and nobody re-checks the home page, the checkout and the 404 page every morning — but a schedule can.
What you get
- Daily or weekly runs that fetch pages as a logged-out visitor gets them: cookie banners, guest menus and all.
- Key templates found automatically: home, blog index, category, tag and author archives, search results, the 404 page, WooCommerce shop, cart, checkout and account pages, and a recent item of each content type you check.
- Up to 25 pages per run, processed five at a time in the background.
- Alerts only for new errors, compared with the previous scheduled check of each page.
How it works
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Choose a schedule
Pick daily or weekly and leave "Include key templates automatically" on. Pages you check in your browser are added; pages you remove from the results are left out.
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Lumtera checks them
The checks run in the background on your own server.
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Hear about regressions
New errors trigger an email or Slack alert.
Who it helps
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Sites with frequent updates
A plugin or theme update can change the header, footer or checkout overnight. A daily run catches new errors before many visitors meet them.
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Cookie banners and guest menus
Consent banners, login prompts and logged-out menus only appear to visitors. Scheduled checks see the page the way visitors do.
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Templates nobody opens
Search results, tag archives and the 404 page are easy to forget. Template discovery puts them in every run without anyone adding them by hand.
Good to know
How it behaves, what it needs, and where its limits are.
- Plans and access
- Included in every Pro plan. Changing the schedule needs the same permission as the Lumtera reports, editors and administrators by default.
- How runs are started
- Runs use Action Scheduler when another plugin, such as WooCommerce, provides it, and WP-Cron otherwise. WP-Cron needs site traffic or a server cron, so on a quiet site a run can start late. Tools → Site Health reports jobs that are running late.
- The first run sets a baseline
- The first scheduled check of a page only records its errors. Alerts start from the next run, and list only errors that are new since the previous scheduled check of that page.
- Fetching rules
- Only your own host is requested. Redirects are followed up to three times while they stay on the site. Each page gets 15 seconds and up to 6 MB. Cart and checkout are fetched without adding a product, so checkout may show its empty-cart state.
- What it cannot see
- Without a browser, no contrast is measured and the browser-only checks — headings across the page, landmarks, target size, focus, color-only links and reflow — do not run. Content that JavaScript adds after the page loads is not in the fetched HTML.
Questions
Something else on your mind? Contact support
Can it check pages on other domains?
No, only your own site. For many client sites, use the agency portfolio.
Can I choose exactly which pages are checked?
Yes, within 25 pages a run. Untick "Include key templates automatically" to use only your own pages, check a page once in your browser to add it, and press Remove in the results to leave one out until you check it again. Developers can set the list with the lumtera_pro_scheduled_urls filter.
What happens if a page fails to load?
The run carries on with the next page. When you use Run now, the result lists a note for each page that could not be loaded, redirected or answered with an error status.
Will it slow my site down?
Runs start at 03:00 site time by default. Each batch checks at most five pages, and the next batch is queued about 30 seconds later, so the pages are not all requested at once.
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