The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
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
Version 1.0.4 of the WordPress client has been released along with an update to the Watchful Dashboard. The updates include: Users can update their sites to the latest WordPress client directly from the Watchful dashboard.
Today we are excited to announce that we have officially begun to migrate our website update and monitoring service to the watchful.net domain. We will phase out our original domain name watchful.li. Since launching in 2012, Watchful has had a complicated relationship with its domain name watchful.li. As we have explained to many folks at conferences and Read more
Watchul is pleased to announce that Francesco Abeni will be joining the development team at Watchful as interim Chief Technology Officer. Francesco has been an invaluable member of the Watchful development team from its inception, contributing significantly to its success. He possesses a deep understanding of the platform and its Read more
Like many web services, Watchful has been busy making changes to address the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to go into effect in the European Union on May 25, 2018. We are working towards GDPR compliance in four main areas: Obtaining consent from users to collect and store personal Read more
We have recently released new versions of our Joomla Client (v1.12.2), WordPress Client (v1.0.2) & the SSO Plugin for Joomla (v1.3). New Joomla & WordPress Clients The updated Joomla and WordPress clients improve the way we authenticate calls from the Watchful server so as to avoid a theoretical timing attack: http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-hmac.php#111435). Read more
Effective immediately, Watchful now officially supports backups, updates, monitoring, and maintenance for websites powered by WordPress. Support for WordPress has been a common request from existing Watchful users who primarily use Joomla as well as longtime WordPress users who are looking for a simpler and more affordable solution for website Read more