Creating and maintaining digital agency work-life balance can be challenging. The nature of the work lends itself to an “always-on” lifestyle. And the recent surge in the popularity of remote-work tools like zoom has made it quite easy to be productive regardless of your location. This compounds both the real and perceived pressures of agency…
How to bulletproof your web agency security policy
The building block of any web agency is the trust bestowed upon it by the client. A client trusts your agency to deliver secure websites and online services, but it goes far beyond that: most clients automatically assume that your web agency security is also top-notch. After-all, the client is trusting your agency with a…
Watchful Supports Updates for OnlineCommunityHub Extensions
Ruud van Leent 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 extensions using Watchful. This is…
Watchful’s 8th Birthday
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 moving faster than ever, I’m…
Send Website Reports to Your Clients at the Beginning or End of the Month
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 I’m delighted to say that…
Quickly Enable Auto-Updates for All Your Favorite Software
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 WordPress and Joomla launch on…
More Uptime Notifications Are Now in Your Watchful Logs
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 been better reports and notifications.…
Watchful Supports Updates for RolandD Extensions
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 Rotterdam. Currently Roland is spending…
You Can Now Edit and Crop WordPress Images as You’re Writing
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 images is hard in WordPress!…
Auto-Updates are Coming to Your Plugins and Themes in WordPress 5.5
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 safer WordPress ecosystem. WordPress has…