Flavor Settings
The Flavor → Settings screen holds the site-level preferences for Flavor. Right now it does two things:
- lets you choose which update stream this site follows (Stable or Beta), and
- shows your current subscription status at a glance.
These preferences apply to this site only and don't change anything your customers see.
To open it: in your WordPress admin, go to Flavor → Settings. You'll need to be a site administrator.
Update channel
This chooses which release stream the site receives updates from:
- Stable — production-ready releases. This is the default and the right choice for any live site.
- Beta — pre-release builds for testing upcoming versions on a staging or test site.
Most sites should stay on Stable. Beta is opt-in and only becomes available after the Flavor team enables it on your license — if it's greyed out with "Hub access required", that's why.
For the full walkthrough — requesting beta access, switching a site to Beta, and switching back — see Release Channels.
Subscription state
Below the channel selector, a Subscription state table shows your live status: the channel you selected, the channel the site is actually using, whether beta access is enabled on your licenses, and when you last changed the channel.
Next to it is a Refresh from Hub button. It re-checks your licenses with us right away, instead of waiting for the automatic check that runs every 12 hours. Use it when:
- we've just enabled beta access on your license and you want the Beta option to unlock now, or
- something in the table looks out of date.
The meaning of each row is explained in the Subscription State section of the Release Channels page.
The Beta option can appear as Beta + Dev Releases on sites that have been specifically set up for internal development testing (a setting added to wp-config.php, together with dev access granted on the license — arranged with the Flavor team). Dev builds are unfinished and meant only for internal validation, never for a live site. If you don't see this option, you don't need it.
Looking for something else?
The Settings screen only covers the update channel. Other Flavor controls live on their own screens:
| I want to… | Where it is |
|---|---|
| Activate, deactivate or re-check my license; install products | The main Flavor page — see Activating your license |
| Check for or apply product updates | The main Flavor page — see Automatic Updates |
| Undo an update (roll back to a previous version) | Flavor → Rollback — see Rolling back |
| Keep premium features working after my license expires (grace period) | See If your license expires |
| Let an AI assistant read your store, or generate content in the builder | Flavor → Flavor AI — see AI Access and AI Content |
Changing the update channel never touches your store data, orders or settings — only the version of the Flavor code the site updates to.