A love letter to the global Joomla community. This weekend I attended Joomla’s Forum for the Future (FFTF) in Malaga, Spain.  FFTF was a 3-day event that followed an unconference-style format where attendees brainstormed and networked on the future of Joomla.  The conference was organized by the Joomla project leadership and was attended primarily by…

You’ll find the Watchful team at Joomla and WordPress events around the world. Are you at Joomla’s “Forum for the Future” event in Spain this week? Please come and say, “Hi!” to Vic the CEO here at Watchful. In the next few months, you’ll find us at WordCamp Miami, WordCamp Chicago, JoomlaDay Chicago, JoomlaDay Austria…

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 can now get notifications for…

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 to a project called FreeScout. For…

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. Plus if anything important happens on your site, we’ll notify…

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 need to tell you about…

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. So we’re delighted to see the work of Matthew Philogene, one of the Watchful team members. Matthew has just relaunched JoomlaGov.info which lists over 3,300 government web…

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: Site backups? You choose your settings once, and we’ll create the backups every day. Uptime monitoring? You relax and we’ll contact you if there…

The WordPress plugins directory 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 are probably using the “Add…