The website maintenance blog at Watchful covers all things WordPress including hosting, software, updates, backups and agency life.
Watchful client reports now include Lighthouse scores and history graphs, making it easier to share website quality trends with clients.
WordPress includes a built-in debugging system that can help identify problems with plugins, themes and custom code. When debug logging is enabled using the default settings, WordPress typically writes PHP errors, warnings and notices to: wp-content/debug.log The information in this file can be extremely useful when troubleshooting a website. Unfortunately, Read more
Watchful introduces performance drop detection for Lighthouse beta testers, with automatic warnings when website performance declines significantly.
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
Watchful automatically checks PHP compatibility before applying WordPress plugin updates, preventing incompatible installations and helping keep your websites running smoothly.
“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
Watchful has moved uptime monitoring to its own privacy-friendly infrastructure, with new pause and resume controls, five-minute checks, and all the monitoring features agencies rely on.
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