Web and digital agencies are always on the lookout for any sign of website intrusion. That’s why we built the Early Warning Audit. The audit monitors sensitive items on your site up to 8 times each day and notifies you when unexpected changes occur. Today we add admin user monitoring to the early warning audit.…
Upgraded website report builder includes personalized email to clients
Many digital agencies use scheduled reporting to keep their clients informed of website maintenance and other activities and metrics. We’ve been steadily improving the website report builder here at Watchful to make them more informative, flexile, and useful. Today we add another great feature to our website report builder: customized notification emails. Personalized email notifications…
The top Joomla extensions used by web developers in 2020
Here at Watchful, we help Joomla users manage tens of thousands of Joomla sites. This gives us a lot of insight into the world of Joomla extensions and provides a unique view of Joomla trends. Each autumn we analyze data across the entire Watchful platform to look for trends and changes. The official Joomla extension…
Premium updates available for all Elegant Marketplace plugins
The official WordPress plugin repository is the first place folks visit when looking for free plugins. In contrast, a number of premium plugin marketplaces exist such as Elegant Marketplace. Elegant Marketplace offers plugins, themes and layouts. And if you are using Watchful to manage your WordPress websites, you can now auto-update all 67 premium plugins…
Say hello to updates for JSitemap Pro and the entire JExtensions Store catalog
JSitemap is one of the most venerable and beloved free extensions in Joomla. As of this writing, this SEO toolkit has has received 490 reviews and has a perfect 5/5 rating. The professional version of this software is also very popular. And so we’re thrilled to announce that 1-click and automatic updates for JSitemap Pro…
Update DJ-Classifieds and DJ-MegaMenu automatically or with a single click
Most agencies who build websites with Joomla have heard of the DJ-Classifieds. DJ-Classifieds makes it easy to build a robust website populated with user-submitted content. It is one of the most mature commercial extensions in the Joomla ecosystem. With over 100 reviews, a perfect 5-star rating, and over 18 payment gateway integrations, DJ-Classifieds remains a…
Joomla 4 migration takes another step
Joomla 4 beta was released a few weeks ago. The stable version may still be a few months out but plans are already in full swing for the Joomla 4 migration and subsequent feature-driven releases. Here at Watchful we have followed the plans for Joomla 4 migration carefully. For instance, some early reports appear to…
New Watchful releases expand critical files included in security scan for WordPress and Joomla
The Early Warning Audit is Watchful’s persistent scanner that looks for signs of intrusion on your site. It performs a security scan for WordPress and Joomla sites in your Watchful dashboard up to 8 times per day. The scan looks for changes in critical system files, plugins/extensions that have been added or removed, IP address…
How to customize the cover page image on your web agency client reports
Web agency client reports are an excellent way to provide value to your customers. We’ve been working hard to improve the client reports at Watchful with automated custom scheduling and white-labelling being the most recent. Today we add another feature commonly requested by Watchful users: the ability to customize the image on the cover page.…
Watchful now supports updates for RSForm Pro and all extensions from RSJoomla!
If you build websites with Joomla, then RSForm and the suite of other extensions from RSJoomla! will be very familiar to you. Based in Constanta in southeastern Romania, RSJoomla! has long been one of the top extension developers in the Joomla ecosystem. They offer a range of free extensions that cover many verticals. RSForm —…