The website maintenance blog at Watchful covers all things WordPress including hosting, software, updates, backups and agency life.
For most of the last decade, managed website services have exploded across the hosting industry. And if you own or manage a website, you’ve probably heard of popular managed hosting vendors such as WP Engine, Pagely, and CloudAccess, to name a few. Managed hosting has a lot of benefits for Read more
Managed website services have exploded across the hosting industry in the last decade. And while they are clearly suitable for many sites, managed WordPress hosting has a number of potential drawbacks that agencies should carefully consider. If managed WordPress hosting is not a good fit for you, or simply outside Read more
Here at Watchful, we help Joomla users manage tens of thousands of Joomla sites. This gives us a lot of insight into the world of Joomla extensions and provides a unique view of Joomla trends. Each autumn we analyze data across the entire Watchful platform to look for trends and Read more
eating and maintaining digital agency work-life balance can be challenging. The nature of the work lends itself to an “always-on” lifestyle. And the recent surge in the popularity of remote-work tools like zoom has made it quite easy to be productive regardless of your location. This compounds both the real Read more
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 trusting Read more
van Lent is one of the most interesting developers in Joomla. He’s not only a prolific developer, but also deep thinker about communities and leadership. I’m delighted to say that you can now update OnlineCommunityHub extensions using Watchful. About OnlineCommunityHub Ruud’s main Joomla site is OnlineCommunityHub where you can find 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
constantly working on improvements at Watchful client. Usually these changes are related to improved performance, tighter security, or sometimes just a little tidying up like we did recently with the Watchful API. Watchful client version 2.0 is currently in the Beta phase. It’s not officially released yet, but it’s stable Read more
Here at Watchful, our goal is to monitor your sites and save you time and money. One way Watchful does that is with useful notifications. We’ve been working hard on improvements to the Watchful notifications system. You can now manage Watchful notifications if your site doesn’t have recent backups, your Read more
Have you ever found an extension or plugin that you want to install on all your sites? Maybe it was a security extension to block hackers. Perhaps it was a great SEO plugin. Or maybe it was a backup plugin to keep your sites safe. Whatever it was, you can Read more