The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
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
Cédric Keiflin is one the more creative and prolific developers in Joomla. He provides over 20 different extensions at Joomlack.fr and many of them have hundreds of 5-star reviews on the Joomla Extensions Directory. I’m delighted to say that you can use Watchful to implement updates for JoomlaCK extensions. This Read more
constantly working on improvements at Watchful client. Usually these changes are related to improved performance, tighter security, or sometimes just a little tidying up like we did recently with the Watchful API. Watchful client version 2.0 is currently in the Beta phase. It’s not officially released yet, but it’s stable Read more
Here at Watchful, our goal is to monitor your sites and save you time and money. One way Watchful does that is with useful notifications. We’ve been working hard on improvements to the Watchful notifications system. You can now manage Watchful notifications if your site doesn’t have recent backups, your Read more
Have you ever found an extension or plugin that you want to install on all your sites? Maybe it was a security extension to block hackers. Perhaps it was a great SEO plugin. Or maybe it was a backup plugin to keep your sites safe. Whatever it was, you can Read more
2020 is already stressful enough for all of us. So as we build new Watchful features, we’re looking for ways to make your agency life calmer. The new “Update Scheduler” allows you to choose when site auto-updates will NOT occur. This lets you relax on weekends or vacations, without having Read more
The Watchful API allows you to use Watchful features in your own custom applications. You can mix-and-match Watchful with other products and services. Over the years, we’ve worked on the API code and tried many new features. One of such features was a way to create and display Watchful reviews. Read more