The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress. We know that many of you do too. Lots of Watchful users have sites on both platforms. Our plan for 2019 is to make sure that you have access to the same capabilities, whether you’re managing a Joomla or WordPress site. Read more…
The Joomla Extensions Directory – simply known as the JED – is the cornerstone of the Joomla project. The JED is the most important site in Joomla for both users and developers. For users, it’s the first place they go when they’re building Joomla sites. A few years ago, I Read more…
Are you ready for a new Watchful feature?! We’re 7 years old now and moving faster than ever. In the last month, we’ve launched support for commercial WordPress plugins and also enabled support for WordPress backup plugins. We’re already rolling with the next new Watchful feature: auto-updates! This feature will 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…
This week, we got a message on the Watchful Facebook page: Yes, it’s true: Watchful will notify you about expiring SSL certificates. There are tons of useful Watchful features that we don’t talk about often, and this is one of them. If your SSL certificate expires, it’s as bad as Read more…
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress. We know that many of you do too. Lots of Watchful users have sites on both platforms. Our plan for 2019 is to make sure that you have access to the same capabilities, whether you’re managing a Joomla or WordPress site. Read more…
In last week’s post to celebrate our 7th anniversary, we mentioned that our main aim for 2019 is to achieve feature parity between Joomla and WordPress. This week we’re taking a big step towards meeting that goal by providing updates for premium WordPress plugins. Watchful can currently update any plugin Read more…
When you’re building a company, nothing comes quickly or easily. This week, we celebrate Watchful’s 7th anniversary. Watchful was built on top of an existing extension called jMonitoring that dates back to 2009, so this project has been going for a decade now. I’m deeply grateful to all our customers Read more…
For many years, Watchful has been able to handle private sites protected by basic authentication (also known as htpasswd) by simply incorporating the basic authentication credentials into the site and administrator URL fields. This method involved adding the username and password directly to the URL, like this: user:password @ domain.com Read more…
When we rolled out initial support for basic authentication last month, we were pleased to announce that an update to the Edit Site interface was in the works. It would address the growing needs for information management for each Joomla or WordPress site in your dashboard. This update was necessary Read more…