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Vic Drover

Using Facebook And Email To Engage Customers
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Using Facebook and email to engage customers and support your business

Last week at JDay USA 2022 I had the pleasure of interviewing my friend and colleague Steve Burge. Steve has been actively using Facebook and email to engage customers for over a year and in this interview he tells us how and why he did it. Here’s the interview. But Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsMay 6, 2022 ago
premium WordPress plugin updates
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Four more premium WordPress plugin updates added to the bulk and automatic updater

One of the things that sets Watchful apart from other WordPress maintenance tools is our support for Premium WordPress plugin updates. Update support for the following paid plugins/plugin suites is now live: GiveWP add-ons Formidable Forms WP Staging PRO Advanced Ads Pro Updates for GiveWP add-ons GiveWP is a powerful Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsMay 4, 2022 ago
Safely Update Wordpress Plugins
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How to safely update WordPress plugins in bulk using this new feature

There is only one way to safely update plugins on your WordPress site: make sure that you have a recent backup handy before you start! Today we released a new update fresh feature for the bulk updater. Update fresh will cut maintenance time significantly while giving you the confidence to Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsMay 3, 2022 ago
website development experts
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Come meet these website development experts in our virtual booth at JDay USA

JDay USA is nearly here and we’re super excited to participate again this year. We love sponsoring this event, and once again we’ll host website development experts in our virtual sponsor booth. I’ll also be giving a talk on using Cloudflare to improve the performance of your website. Cloudflare has Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsApril 21, 2022 ago
Turning Bugs Into Features
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Turning bugs into features when building applications

At Watchful, we do our best to produce a quality, intuitive application for website management. And when a customer finds a bug, we do our best to fix it quickly. Sometimes these fixes lead to an improvement or feature in the platform. Below is a recent example of this process Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsApril 11, 2022 ago
Bulk software installer
How to

How to quickly install urgent website updates

Recently a Watchful Premium user contacted our support team with an urgent request. An update for a custom theme had been released, but it was not yet appearing in Watchful’s updater. Was there another way to install urgent website updates across all the affected sites? Before we give the solution, Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsFebruary 11, 2022 ago
Updating To The Latest Version Of Joomla
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How many sites are updating to the latest version of Joomla?

Updating to the latest version of Joomla is perhaps the single most important way to keep your website safe. The latest supported versions of Joomla are the 3.10.x series and the 4.0.x series. All Joomla users should be running one of these two major versions. In August of 2021, Joomla Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsJanuary 31, 2022 ago
Yootheme
News

How to apply premium YooTheme updates in 2022 and beyond.

Like may premium software developers, license keys are used to apply premium YooTheme updates to their users websites. Surprisingly, YooTheme announced a big change their licensing system a few days before Christmas. The licensing change prevented Watchful users from mass-updating YooThemes paid Joomla extensions. In the weeks since the announcement, Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsJanuary 26, 2022 ago
Flow chart for updating your ,htaccess file. Image credit Brian Teeman.
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The two important changes needed to future-proof Joomla 4 updates

Image credit: Brian Teeman. Joomla 4.0.4 launched on October 26, 2021. It includes changes that make the Joomla update process more efficient, but may also break the update process. Below we will review the steps needed to fix this and future-proof Joomla 4 updates. Why are changes needed? Joomla 4.0.4 Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsNovember 30, 2021 ago
What Is Happening With Watchful Apps
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What is happening with Watchful apps?

atchful apps are plugins for your website. Once installed, they extend the functionality of Watchful itself. But since we don’t talk about them much, you may be wondering “What is happening with Watchful Apps?”. Below we’ll give you some updates on Watchful Apps including some recent changes and future plans. Read more…

By Vic Drover, 3 yearsNovember 19, 2021 ago

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