Most experts recommend protecting live websites with a Joomla security extension. Produced by one of the most influential Joomla developers, Admin Tools provides a suite of tools that help keep your website safe and running smoothly. Website security is a broad topic and sometimes complicated topic. Admin Tools makes site security much …
Watchful has introduced an immensely popular feature that empowers its users to associate custom tags with websites in their personalized dashboard. These tags excel in quickly filtering sites by criteria like staff, service plan, and software version, adding to their appeal. Today, we eagerly announce a significant enhancement to the …
A few weeks ago, we unveiled an enhanced dashboard designed to streamline the management of your Joomla website portfolio. We also presented a comprehensive guide to help you maximize your productivity when it comes to site maintenance tasks. With valuable feedback from our Watchers, our dedicated engineering team fixed multiple …
Every Joomla website needs at least one user account to perform maintenance and update content. So when you are managing multiple websites, it can be a time consuming process to track and change passwords regularly. In addition, if you have multiple staff members, the issue is amplified for each person. …
Balancing the access to and security of online resources is a critical feature of any successful web development agency. However, many agencies struggle to make and enforce security policies that protect their own resources and that of third-party clients. Both individual and group-based password managers have significantly enhanced web server …
Another commercial Joomla extension developer has joined the Watchful family — Chill Creations. Chill Creations develops three highly-rated Joomla add-ons: Update all extensions on multiple websites simultaneously with a few clicks using Watchful’s Joomla management dashboard. As with updates for the other commercial extensions that we support here at Watchful, adding …
As a Joomla agency with tens, hundreds or thousands of clients, you know how much work it takes to keep your websites secure and current with up-to-date software. From spreadsheets to custom scripts to SaaS services like Watchful, it’s likely that you have your own internal processes to help manage …
Today we are excited to share a small but useful feature for your Joomla dashboard — improved support for Cloudflare. The new feature dramatically reduces the number of Watchful-generated false-positive alerts that the IP Address of your Cloudflare-enhanced website(s) server has changed. By whitelisting Cloudflare IP Addresses, Watchers can now …
The entire Watchful team has been quietly working on a secret project for months. Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the third iteration of the dashboard with AngularJS. As seen in the screenshot above, the new dashboard has been redesigned for maximum efficiency and rapid decision making. …
In our efforts to enhance the Watchful service, we integrated Uptime Robot’s website uptime monitoring capabilities last spring. Uptime Robot has proven to be exceptionally reliable, promptly providing alerts for downtime within a mere one-minute interval. While the inclusion of Uptime Robot greatly bolstered Watchful’s functionality, we carefully considered the …