The website maintenance blog at Watchful covers all things WordPress including hosting, software, updates, backups and agency life.
When troubleshooting problems on a WordPress website, it is common to enable debugging to help find clues to the problem. Once debugging is enabled, a WordPress debug log file will be created to record anything that might be amiss such as PHP errors and warnings. Debugging is a great WordPress Read more…
WS Form PRO is a powerful forms plugin for WordPress. Through our latest premium plugin integration, users can easily apply these paid updates safely and securely across all their sites at once with Watchful. Meet WS Form PRO Launched in 2018, WS Form has skyrocketed in popularity. This popularity is Read more…
SEOPress is a popular marketing tool for WordPress with the free version installed on over 250,000 sites around the world. SEOPress Pro is the premium version. Watchful can now be used to remotely update all SEOPress versions, both free and paid. What is SEOPress Pro? The free version of SEOPress Read more…
“This website uses cookies.” You may have seen this warning so many times that you probably click “accept all” without reading the details just to get rid of the notification popup. One day, viewing websites was hassle-free and the next, sites were covered with cookie notices concerned with your privacy. Read more…
If you read this blog, you’ll know that we take website security very seriously. And we always recommend using the Cloudflare service as one of the tools in your security toolbox. In this post we will share a simple Cloudflare hack that blocks many of the WordPress brute-force attacks your Read more…
Uptime monitoring is an important consideration for anyone in charge of maintaining websites. At Watchful, we’ve completed the launch of our own uptime monitoring tool and added some useful changes. What is uptime monitoring? Uptime monitoring is a technique used to check if websites are online. Checks are performed on Read more…
In 2018, Watchful made a commitment to supporting privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU. As part of this commitment, Watchful account holders can complete a data processing agreement with us with ease. Here’s how. What is the GDPR? In 2018, the EU adopted a legal framework Read more…
It is hard to believe that September 2022 marks Watchful’s 10th anniversary. Not many businesses make it to 10 years. So I’m both proud and humbled to continue providing useful services to web developers, site maintainers and digital agencies. How it started & how it’s going 15 years ago I Read more…
Since 2014, reports generated by Watchful have been able to include traffic and other visitor data from Google’s Universal Analytics (UA). Today we are happy to announce that Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is now fully supported as well. Why support Google Analytics 4? Despite privacy concerns and new legislation, Google Read more…
If you use Google’s Universal Analytics (UA) to monitor traffic on your website, you are probably aware that it will sunset and stop collecting data on July 1, 2023. You may also know that UA is being replaced by Google Analytics 4 (GA4). But did you know that the traffic Read more…