The `How To` area focuses on short tasks that will make working with Watchful easier and improve the experience for your clients.
While there are many levels of sophistication when it comes to developing websites, most web developers are familiar with the use of production sites and staging sites. Production sites are the public-facing versions of your website that are used every day by site visitors. Staging sites are private clones of your production sites. They are Read more…
Last week, I interviewed Vic Drover, the co-founder of Watchful. This was part of an online Joomla user group, hosted by Joomlashack. Vic talked about the background of Watchful and went over many of the key features. If you’re new to Watchful, or curious about how it can benefit your Read more…
Here at Watchful, our goal is to save you time and money (as much as $650 per year on every site). One way we save you time and money is with useful notifications. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working hard on improvements to the Watchful notifications system. You Read more…
Your website should be online. And if your website isn’t online, you should know about it instantly. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to check if your site is down. When people think about downtime, they often think about their server and their hosting company. But in reality, things are more Read more…
Here at Watchful, we help our customers maintain far over 40,000 sites. Many of those sites are managed by agencies who do maintenance work. Our goal is to save you time and money by making site management as easy as possible. This week we got an email from a happy Read more…
We all have people helping us with maintenance. Wherever you live, people will come by to collect your trash, sweep the streets, and make sure everything is running smoothly. Up here in Wisconsin, where I live, people clean the highways whenever the snow falls. Down in Florida, where some good Read more…
One Watchful user asked us this week if you could stop their customers from accessing the Watchful extension. They wanted to white-label the Watchful experience, and provide the smoothest experience possible for their customer. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to change the permissions for Watchful’s Joomla extension. After Read more…
The primary purpose of Watchful is to save you time. Organization of your website plays a big part in achieving this goal. The ability to tag your websites provides a flexible way for Watchers to organize their mainteance workflows. And since Tags can be added and managed easily, we see a lot of Read more…
The template is one of the most important aspects of your Joomla website. It is used on every pageload and affects the look, feel, layout, pageload time and nearly every other aspect of the website experience. Not surprisingly then, the template is also a prime target for intruders who look Read more…
Yesterday we were informed of a very serious security vulnerability in eXtplorer — a popular file management utility for Joomla. Unlike the recent security issues in the Joomla core, this vulnerability is in an extension. After some research, we now know that on up to 1 in every 10 Joomla websites may be Read more…