The website maintenance blog at Watchful covers all things WordPress including hosting, software, updates, backups and agency life.
e love talking with customers here at Watchful. There’s always so much to learn from the creative agency owners out there. This week, we were talking with Hugo, who works with a Dutch agency. They are doing amazing Joomla and WordPress projects. They’ve also built a very useful screenshot comparison Read more…
For several years now, I have believed that central and western Europe is the hotbed of open source enthusiasm and growth. It’s amazing how many talented web agencies there are in the Netherlands (such as Van Laarhoven Websites and Perfect Web Team) and nearby areas such as Belgium, Germany and 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…
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress and we know that lots of you do too. Many Watchful users have sites on both platforms. In Joomla, backups are relatively easy because everyone relies on Akeeba Backup. We help Joomla users manage over 40,000 sites and Akeeba Backup is 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…
On the Hot Air podcast, we talk with people involved with digital agencies. We discuss business models, strategies, and tools for making your agency successful. And along the way, we hope to have a little fun and make some friends. On this episode of the pod, we’re speaking with Parth Read more…
We’re delighted to announce that Watchful has acquired XCloner, backup plugin for WordPress. XCloner is one of the top 10 most popular WordPress backup plugins. Ovidiu Liuta has been the lead developer of XCloner for over a decade. In that time, he has built a great plugin, with over 40,000 active 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…