The website maintenance blog at Watchful covers all things WordPress including hosting, software, updates, backups and agency life.
Here at Watchful, we love to support high profile users of open source. Every day, we help governments, universities and other large organizations to use Joomla and WordPress. So we’re delighted to see the work of Matthew Philogene, one of the Watchful team members. Matthew has just relaunched JoomlaGov.info which Read more…
The Joomlashack Conference was a three day online event that took place in early November. This was a free conference featuring the best speakers from around the Joomla world. Plus, somehow, Vic Drover, the CEO of Watchful, was invited too 🙂 As one of the bigger companies in Joomla, Watchful Read more…
Here at Watchful we’re big fans of Gutenberg. We’ve heard the criticism – and there’s been a lot! We’ve seen the bugs – Gutenberg still has glitches. But overall, it’s a really fun and easy writing experience. Gutenberg is only 1 year and it’s rapidly improving. This week, Gutenberg got Read more…
When Joomla 4 arrives in 2020, you’ll see many improvements. There’s one improvement that I haven’t seen written about yet, but it will prove very useful to Watchful users. Joomla 4 will have a standard approach to handling license keys for commercial extensions. So whether you’re using extensions from Akeeba, Read more…
This week the Joomla project released an important update for its 3.6 series: Joomla 3.6.4. Since this version included a patch for an important security issue, Joomla published an announcement a few days prior stating the exact release date and time to help users prepare and plan for the update. Read more…
Website developers and owners must remain vigilant to the emerging threats in Joomla and its ecosystem of extensions and templates. Use the Joomla security resources below to learn the best methods of building and maintaining safer websites. 1. Joomla security checklist The Joomla Security Checklist is the perfect place to start when Read more…
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 Read more…
After months of internal development and weeks of beta testing, the new Watchful Dashboard is now available for all users. The new Dashboard was developed to address feedback from a number of Watchers who wanted more of the interface dedicated to site management and an app-like experience with all the Read more…