The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
Like many communities, Joomla users pine for the return of live events. And we grew tired of Zoom conferences many months back. A new and innovative event called Joomla Day USA will be held on April 23-24, 2021 that hopes to address both issues. It is a refreshing and exciting Read more…
WordFest Live is a 24 hour celebration for those of us in the remote work community with a heathy dose of WordPress learning thrown in. WordFest is organized by Big Orange Heart in support of mental health and well-being for remote workers. This topic is important to us here at Read more…
Aside from all of the uncertainty and change brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been an eventful year for Watchful in terms of new features and improvements in the platform. This was especially true for some of Watchful’s core features such as updates, backups and reports. But we Read more…
Today marks a big step in the evolution of client reporting at Watchful as we officially announce the best white-label reports we’ve ever built with 3 massive changes. Watchful Premium users can now send reports from their own email accounts. And you can control exactly what site activity is included Read more…
Web and digital agencies are always on the lookout for any sign of website intrusion. That’s why we built the Early Warning Audit. The audit monitors sensitive items on your site up to 8 times each day and notifies you when unexpected changes occur. Today we add admin user monitoring Read more…
Many digital agencies use scheduled reporting to keep their clients informed of website maintenance and other activities and metrics. We’ve been steadily improving the website report builder here at Watchful to make them more informative, flexile, and useful. Today we add another great feature to our website report builder: customized Read more…
The official WordPress plugin repository is the first place folks visit when looking for free plugins. In contrast, a number of premium plugin marketplaces exist such as Elegant Marketplace. Elegant Marketplace offers plugins, themes and layouts. And if you are using Watchful to manage your WordPress websites, you can now Read more…
JSitemap is one of the most venerable and beloved free extensions in Joomla. As of this writing, this SEO toolkit has has received 490 reviews and has a perfect 5/5 rating. The professional version of this software is also very popular. And so we’re thrilled to announce that 1-click and Read more…
Most agencies who build websites with Joomla have heard of the DJ-Classifieds. DJ-Classifieds makes it easy to build a robust website populated with user-submitted content. It is one of the most mature commercial extensions in the Joomla ecosystem. With over 100 reviews, a perfect 5-star rating, and over 18 payment Read more…
Update Aug. 11, 2021: Check out the current state of of our preparations with the stable release of Joomla 4 just a few days away. Joomla 4 beta was released a few weeks ago. The stable version may still be a few months out but plans are already in full Read more…