The `How To` area focuses on short tasks that will make working with Watchful easier and improve the experience for your clients.
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…
Many of you work for web agencies. You want to do the best for your customers, so you have test and/or staging environments. This helps ensure that you catch any potential problems before they go into production. Generally, the bigger and more complex your site is, the more test and Read more…
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 site visitors use every day. Staging sites are private clones of your production sites. They are used primarily 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…
Last week, I interviewed Vic Drover, Watchful’s co-founder. This introduction to Watchful 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 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 over 40,000 sites. Many agencies do maintenance work to keep those sites managed. Similarly, 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 customer. Their Read more…
Running a WordPress agency means that you spend a lot of time maintaining sites and updating plugins. Watchful can help reduce your WordPress maintenance costs so your agency can be more profitable. Good maintenance mean happy customers We all have people helping us with maintenance. Wherever you live, people will Read more…
One Watchful user asked us this week if you could stop prevent access to Watchful via its 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…