You’re busy. You manage multiple websites, as well as everything else your work throws at you. So everything we do here at Watchful is focused on saving you time and money. (as much as $650 per year on every site). One way we save you time and money is with Read more
Here at Watchful, our goal is to save you time and money (as much as $650 per year on every site). One way we save you time and money is with useful notifications. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working hard on improvements to the Watchful notifications system. You Read more
Here at Watchful, our goal is to help web agencies save time and money. Most of the time, we do that with our site management platform. But, hopefully we can also save you time and money by showcasing really useful tools. Recently, we moved our support desk from HelpScout (which Read more
Here at Watchful, our goal is to save you time and money (as much as $650 per year on every site). As much as possible, Watchful will do things automatically for you. Use Watchful and we’ll automatically create backups, plus update your extensions and plugins. Accordingly, if anything important happens Read more
Here at Watchful, we are big fans of Akeeba Backup. And we know what many of you are too. We found that over 63% of sites on Watchful also use Akeeba! Akeeba is the most popular way to backup Joomla sites. In fact, it’s the top-rated Joomla extension. So we Read more
Here at Watchful, we love to support high profile users of open source. Every day, we help governments, universities and other large organizations to use Joomla and WordPress. It is inspiring to see the work of Matthew Philogene, one of the Watchful team members. He has just relaunched JoomlaGov.info which Read more
Here at Watchful, our goal is to save you time and money (as much as $650 per year on every site). One key way we do that is by automating tasks: So we’re delighted to launch another automation feature: plugin auto-updates! This feature allows Watchful to automatically update software you Read more
The WordPress plugins repo is the cornerstone of the WordPress project. For users, it’s probably the first place you go when you’re building WordPress sites. If you’re looking to add functionality to your WordPress site, you browse through the plugin directory. And even if you don’t go to WordPress.org, you Read more
Here at Watchful we’re big fans of Gutenberg. However, we’ve heard the criticism – and there’s been a lot! We’ve seen the bugs; Gutenberg still has glitches. But overall, it’s a really fun and easy writing experience. Gutenberg is only 1 year and it’s rapidly improving. This week, Gutenberg got Read more
Your website should be online. And if your website isn’t online, you should know about it instantly. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to check if your site is down. When people think about downtime, they often think about their server and their hosting company. But in reality, things are more Read more