Ruud van Lent is one of the most interesting developers in Joomla. He’s not only a prolific developer, but also deep thinker about communities and leadership. Ruud’s main Joomla site is onlinecommunityhub.nl where you can find over a dozen extensions. I’m delighted to say that you can now update Ruud’s Read more…
This website went live on September 3, 2012. Eight years later it feels like we’re still just getting started! Last year, on our birthday, we published a nostalgic overview with lots of photos and stories. This year’s birthday post is a very different kind of overview. Because Watchful really is Read more…
Here at Watchful we help you manage and understand what’s going on with your customers’ sites. We collect key information, including Google Analytics, uptime data, and logs of the important events on your site. Then you can gather that info in reports and pass them on to your clients. So Read more…
We’ll look back on 2020 as the year that auto-updates really became mainstream for open source CMSs. This change has been coming for some time. WordPress has provided auto-updating for minor versions since 2013. However, the pace of change has really accelerated in recent months: October 2019: Auto-updates for both Read more…
Here at Watchful, most of our customers are web agencies. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you work with an agency and manage multiple sites. So we listen really carefully to your requests and then build the features you need. One of your most frequent requests has Read more…
Roland Dalmulder is one of the most helpful and involved people in the Joomla world. Roland has helped Joomla in the Bug Squad, the Production Leadership team, the Google Summer of Code and many other roles. He lives in the Netherlands and is previously organized the Joomla User Group in Read more…
WordPress 5.5 is now available. One very cool feature for Watchful users is auto-updates for plugins and themes. These will will help people stay on top of their site security. Another feature that you’ll love is the ability to edit images directly from the post editing screen. Right now, editing Read more…
WordPress 5.5 is now available. One major new feature in this version is image editing inside blocks. Another feature we want to highlight for Watchful users is auto-updates for plugins and themes. These new auto-updates will help people stay on top of their site security. This will make for a Read more…
Cédric Keiflin is one the more creative and prolific developers in Joomla. He provides over 20 different extensions at Joomlack.fr and many of them have hundreds of 5-star reviews on the Joomla Extensions Directory. I’m delighted to say that you can updates JoomlaCK extensions using Watchful. This is the fifth Read more…
We’re constantly working on improvements at Watchful client. Usually these changes are related to improved performance, tighter security, or sometimes just a little tidying up like we did recently with the Watchful API. This is version 2.0 and it’s currently in the Beta phase. It’s not officially released yet, but Read more…