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Until now, Watchful did not use a smart WordPress updater. Specifically I am referring to the auto-updater. Yes, Watchful could update your sites automatically. However, Watchful wasn’t smart because it still needed your input to run safely. Our auto-updater would run even if you didn’t have a recent backup. True, Read more…
of the most important services Watchful can provide for you is reliable site backups. No matter what happens, if you have trustworthy site backups, you can recover. So it’s a big advantage if you can find affordable backup storage for your sites. We looked around at over a dozen of Read more…
2020. That’s all you need to say now. As you soon as you say “2020” people immediately start shaking their heads and sighing. 2020 means stress, uncertainty and a bumpy road ahead. We started the Watchful podcast in February, so we’ve been talking with agency owners throughout the pandemic. We’ve Read more…
ng scenario: It’s late on Friday night and your customer has to talk with you right now. They decided to make one last change for the week. One final update before going offline for the weekend. And it blew up the whole site. The customer calls you, begging for help Read more…
Update: Support for Joomla 4 is now officially available. At the end of May, the Joomla world enjoyed JandBeyond. Normally, this is the big annual Joomla event that’s held in Europe; this year, it became a huge, online conference that ran for 24 hours. All the presentations were streamed on Read more…
If you’re reading this post, there’s a very good chance that you work at a web agency. Most of our business comes from web agencies and we strive to improve your work life. Whenever we talk with customers, one word keeps coming up: “reports“. You want better reporting options; you Read more…
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress and we know that lots of you do too. Many Watchful users have sites on both platforms. In Joomla, backups are relatively easy because everyone relies on Akeeba Backup. We help Joomla users manage over 40,000 sites and Akeeba Backup is Read more…
We’re rolling out new features every week for Watchful users. These new features include better notifications, support for more extension updates, backup improvements, and more. However, whenever we talk with you, one word keeps getting repeated: “reports“. You want better reporting options and the ability to automatically send them by Read more…
We’re happy to say that you can now use Watchful to download updates for Joomshaper, including their incredibly popular SP Page Builder. This is the fourth new extension provider we’ve added in recent weeks, following on from Weeblr, Tassos and Simplify Your Web. Here at Watchful, we help Joomla users Read more…
Here at Watchful, the majority of our customers are web agencies. If you’re reading this post, there’s a very high likelihood that you own or work at an agency. So our aim is to listen really carefully to your agency requests and then build the features you need. One of Read more…