The website maintenance blog at Watchful covers all things WordPress including hosting, software, updates, backups and agency life.
The building block of any web agency is the trust bestowed upon it by the client. A client trusts your agency to deliver secure websites and online services, but it goes far beyond that: most clients automatically assume that your web agency security is also top-notch. After-all, the client is Read more…
WordPress 5.5 is now available. One major new feature in this version is image editing inside blocks. Another feature we want to highlight for Watchful users is auto-updates for plugins and themes. These new auto-updates will help people stay on top of their site security. This will make for a Read more…
One of the most important services Watchful can provide for you is reliable site backups. No matter what happens, if you have trustworthy site backups, you can recover. So it’s a big advantage if you can find an affordable place to store a good number of backups for your sites. Read more…
2020. That’s all you need to say now. As you soon as you say “2020” people immediately start shaking their heads and sighing. 2020 means stress, uncertainty and a bumpy road ahead. We started the Watchful podcast in February, so we’ve been talking with agency owners throughout the pandemic. We’ve Read more…
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress and we know that lots of you do too. Normally, April, May and June are the peak of the conference season for our favorite CMS’s. I live down in Florida in the United States and during the spring, I’m often able Read more…
Some of the most interesting people are quietly spoken but achieve great things. That is 100% true of Kawshar Ahmed. Kawshar runs two successful companies: Joomshaper in the Joomla world and Themeum in the WordPress world. We met Kawshar at WordCamp US in St Louis. His team had flown over Read more…
I have been managing digital agencies for two decades. But that wasn’t always the case. I grew up in the 1970s on a remote island in the North Atlantic ocean. The climate was harsh, we struggled to pay the bills, and life always seemed a little harder than it had Read more…
The new Gutenberg editor in WordPress is not popular with everyone. But here at Watchful, we love Gutenberg and now use it on all our sites, especially the ability to group blocks and reuse them on any post or page. Perhaps my favorite thing about Gutenberg is the explosion of Read more…
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 Read more…
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 (which Read more…