The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
Updated 11-Nov-2021: Changes to the backup system are now complete. Updated 20-Sep-2021: This feature is open to all Watchful users for both Joomla and WordPress. At Watchful, we’ve been working on Joomla 4 compatibility for a while. Full support for Joomla 4 requires modernization of the Joomla backup system and Read more…
The long-awaited launch of Joomla 4 arrives on August 17th and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ve been preparing for this day for years and we’re ready to go! In this post, I’m going to give you a quick over of what’s happening with Watchful and Joomla 4. Yes, Watchful Read more…
Update, August 26, 2021: This update is part of a bigger set of changes to our website management user experience (learn more). The website vulnerability scan at Watchful is an on-demand suite of tools that help detect and manage security risks. This includes looking at security best-practices, file and folder Read more…
Automatic software updates are an important tool to help keep your website running smoothly and to minimize maintenance time. Today we are announcing two improvements to our auto update tool: the ability to update core software automatically and the ability to pause automatic updates in a single click. Below, we’ll Read more…
Recently we revamped how activity logs are stored at Watchful. With a more efficient and flexible logging system in place, we now move to the task of changing retention times across the platform. This table summarizes the upcoming changes and additional details follow below. These changes will be implemented on Read more…
In 2016, 2-factor authentication (2FA) for web applications was rapidly growing in popularity as important part of overall security. So back then, we were keen to expand our existing 2FA options (Google Authenticator) to include YubiKey for logging into Watchful securely. But now it’s time to say goodbye to YubiKey. Read more…
On Tuesday, May 18 we’ll be attending the online Joomla User Group London meeting at 6PM UTC and giving a live Watchful demo. In the demo we’ll review the basics of our website management platform and then highlight recent developments such as the Account Dashboard, stale backup detection and automatic Read more…
Here at Watchful, our goal is to make website maintenance as efficient and reliable as possible. Today were launching the next step in this journey with a new account dashboard that may change the very nature of how you perform website maintenance. Let’s jump right in and preview the account Read more…
As part of JDay USA, Watchful hosted an Ask Me Anything session focused on website maintenance. We invited a panel of Joomla and WordPress experts to help answer your questions. The session was a great success. The questions and discussion points covered a broad range of topics well beyond simply Read more…
Watchful generates a lot of data about the WordPress and Joomla websites added to your account. This saved information, with a variable retention time, forms the activity logs. Next week we will release a revamped logging system. This post describes the change and what to expect as a Watchful user. Read more…