The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
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…
The Early Warning Audit is Watchful’s persistent scanner that looks for signs of intrusion on your site. It performs a security scan for WordPress and Joomla sites in your Watchful dashboard up to 8 times per day. The scan looks for changes in critical system files, plugins/extensions that have been Read more…
If you build websites with Joomla, then RSForm and the suite of other extensions from RSJoomla! will be very familiar to you. Based in Constanta in southeastern Romania, RSJoomla! has long been one of the top extension developers in the Joomla ecosystem. They offer a range of free extensions that Read more…
eating and maintaining digital agency work-life balance can be challenging. The nature of the work lends itself to an “always-on” lifestyle. And the recent surge in the popularity of remote-work tools like zoom has made it quite easy to be productive regardless of your location. This compounds both the real Read more…
building block of any web agency is the trust bestowed upon it by the client. A client trusts your agency to deliver secure websites and online services, but it goes far beyond that: most clients automatically assume that your web agency security is also top-notch. After-all, the client is trusting Read more…
van Lent is one of the most interesting developers in Joomla. He’s not only a prolific developer, but also deep thinker about communities and leadership. I’m delighted to say that you can now update OnlineCommunityHub extensions using Watchful. About OnlineCommunityHub Ruud’s main Joomla site is OnlineCommunityHub where you can find Read more…
This website went live on September 3, 2012. Eight years later it feels like we’re still just getting started! Last year, on our birthday, we published a nostalgic overview with lots of photos and stories. This year’s birthday post is a very different kind of overview. Because Watchful really is Read more…
We’ll look back on 2020 as the year that auto-updates really became mainstream for open source CMSs. This change has been coming for some time. WordPress has provided auto-updating for minor versions since 2013. However, the pace of change has really accelerated in recent months: Here at Watchful, we’ve come Read more…
Here at Watchful, most of our customers are web agencies. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you work with an agency and manage multiple sites. So we listen really carefully to your requests and then build the features you need. One of your most frequent requests has Read more…
Roland Dalmulder is one of the most helpful and involved people in the Joomla world. Roland has helped Joomla in the Bug Squad, the Production Leadership team, the Google Summer of Code and many other roles. He lives in the Netherlands and previously organized the Joomla User Group in Rotterdam. Read more…