Every Joomla website needs at least one user account to perform maintenance and update content. So when you are managing multiple websites, it can be a time consuming process to track and change passwords regularly. In addition, if you have multiple staff members, the issue is amplified for each person. Read more
Balancing the access to and security of online resources is a critical feature of any successful web development agency. However, many agencies struggle to make and enforce security policies that protect their own resources and that of third-party clients. Both individual and group-based password managers have significantly enhanced web server Read more
Another commercial Joomla extension developer has joined the Watchful family — Chill Creations. Chill Creations develops three highly-rated Joomla add-ons: Update all extensions on multiple websites simultaneously with a few clicks using Watchful’s Joomla management dashboard. As with updates for the other commercial extensions that we support here at Watchful, adding Read more
As a Joomla agency with tens, hundreds or thousands of clients, you know how much work it takes to keep your websites secure and current with up-to-date software. From spreadsheets to custom scripts to SaaS services like Watchful, it’s likely that you have your own internal processes to help manage Read more
Today we are excited to share a small but useful feature for your Joomla dashboard — improved support for Cloudflare. The new feature dramatically reduces the number of Watchful-generated false-positive alerts that the IP Address of your Cloudflare-enhanced website(s) server has changed. By whitelisting Cloudflare IP Addresses, Watchers can now Read more
The entire Watchful team has been quietly working on a secret project for months. Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the third iteration of the dashboard with AngularJS. As seen in the screenshot above, the new dashboard has been redesigned for maximum efficiency and rapid decision making. Read more
In our efforts to enhance the Watchful service, we integrated Uptime Robot’s website uptime monitoring capabilities last spring. Uptime Robot has proven to be exceptionally reliable, promptly providing alerts for downtime within a mere one-minute interval. While the inclusion of Uptime Robot greatly bolstered Watchful’s functionality, we carefully considered the Read more
If you belong to the majority of Joomla users who rely on JCE for content editing and the JCE MediaBox plugin for embedding media like images, galleries, and videos, we have exciting news for you. Exactly one year ago, we introduced update support for various JCE software titles. Today, we Read more
We are pleased to announce that we have expanded the data export options available to our valued Watchers. Users have long utilized our CSV and PDF export options when accessing Logs in the Watchful dashboard. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance your experience, we have diligently worked on Read more
Today we are thrilled to announce that Watchful now supports remote updates for ZOO, the Joomla application builder from YooTheme. As of now, all users of the free version of ZOO can take advantage of this update immediately. With Watchful’s seamless integration, ensuring that your ZOO application is up to Read more