Practical guides for securing, maintaining and troubleshooting WordPress and Joomla! websites. Learn how to solve common website problems, follow industry best practices and make site management easier — with or without Watchful.
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
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
Every time your Joomla website loads, the template kicks into gear to deliver the desired experience. Given this central role, Joomla template security is one of the key steps to preventing unauthorized access to your web server or the insertion of spam or graffiti on your site. The following tips 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