Here at Watchful, we help our customers maintain over 40,000 sites. Many agencies do maintenance work to keep those sites managed. Similarly, our goal is to save you time and money by making site management as easy as possible. This week we got an email from a happy customer. Their Read more…
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress. We know that many of you do too. Lots of Watchful users have sites on both platforms. Our plan for 2019 is to make sure that you have access to the same capabilities, whether you’re managing a Joomla or WordPress site. Read more…
Are you ready for a new Watchful feature?! We’re 7 years old now and moving faster than ever. In the last month, we’ve launched support for commercial WordPress plugins and also enabled support for WordPress backup plugins. We’re already rolling with the next new Watchful feature: auto-updates! This feature will Read more…
One Watchful user asked us this week if you could stop prevent access to Watchful via its extension. They wanted to white-label the Watchful experience, and provide the smoothest experience possible for their customer. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to change the permissions for Watchful’s Joomla extension. After Read more…
When Joomla 4 arrives in 2020, you’ll see many improvements. There’s one improvement that I haven’t seen written about yet, but it will prove very useful to Watchful users. Joomla 4 will have a standard approach to handling license keys for commercial extensions. So whether you’re using extensions from Akeeba, Read more…
This week, we got a message on the Watchful Facebook page: Yes, it’s true: Watchful will notify you about expiring SSL certificates. There are tons of useful Watchful features that we don’t talk about often, and this is one of them. If your SSL certificate expires, it’s as bad as Read more…
In last week’s post to celebrate our 7th anniversary, we mentioned that our main aim for 2019 is to achieve feature parity between Joomla and WordPress. This week we’re taking a big step towards meeting that goal by providing updates for premium WordPress plugins. Watchful can currently update any plugin Read more…