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…
For those who don’t know me, I’m Victor Drover, the owner of Watchful. Next week is my birthday — the BIG five-oh! To celebrate I’m hosting an Ask Me Anything session focused on website maintenance. When and where The AMA will begin Friday, April 23rd at 8:00 AM UTC-5 (check Read more…
A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic forced most in-person conferences to either cancel or move online. Web design conferences were no exception. The coming of age of truly engaging online conference platforms seemed to portend a bright future for online meetings. But here in the spring or 2021 it feels Read more…
ke 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…
Here at Watchful, we help Joomla users manage tens of thousands of Joomla sites. This gives us a lot of insight into the world of Joomla extensions and provides a unique view of Joomla trends. Each autumn we analyze data across the entire Watchful platform to look for trends and Read more…
A love letter to the global Joomla community. This weekend I attended Joomla’s Forum for the Future (FFTF) in Malaga, Spain. FFTF was a 3-day event that followed an unconference-style format where attendees brainstormed and networked on the future of Joomla. The conference was organized by the Joomla project leadership Read more…
Here at Watchful, we love to support high profile users of open source. Every day, we help governments, universities and other large organizations to use Joomla and WordPress. It is inspiring to see the work of Matthew Philogene, one of the Watchful team members. He has just relaunched JoomlaGov.info which Read more…