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, our goal is to save you time and money (as much as $650 per year on every site). As much as possible, Watchful will do things automatically for you. Use Watchful and we’ll automatically create backups, plus update your extensions and plugins. Accordingly, if anything important happens 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…
The Joomlashack Conference was a three day online event that took place in early November. This was a free conference featuring the best speakers from around the Joomla world. Plus, somehow, Vic Drover, the CEO of Watchful, was invited too 🙂 As one of the bigger companies in Joomla, Watchful Read more…
The Joomla Extensions Directory – simply known as the JED – is the cornerstone of the Joomla project. The JED is the most important site in Joomla for both users and developers. For users, it’s the first place they go when they’re building Joomla sites. A few years ago, I Read more…
One Watchful user asked us this week if you could stop prevent access to Watchful via its extension. They wanted to white-label the Watchful experience, and provide the smoothest experience possible for their customer. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to change the permissions for Watchful’s Joomla extension. After Read more…
When Joomla 4 arrives in 2020, you’ll see many improvements. There’s one improvement that I haven’t seen written about yet, but it will prove very useful to Watchful users. Joomla 4 will have a standard approach to handling license keys for commercial extensions. So whether you’re using extensions from Akeeba, Read more…
When you’re building a company, nothing comes quickly or easily. This week, we celebrate Watchful’s 7th anniversary. Watchful was built on top of an existing extension called jMonitoring that dates back to 2009, so this project has been going for a decade now. I’m deeply grateful to all our customers Read more…
This week the Joomla project released an important update for its 3.6 series: Joomla 3.6.4. Since this version included a patch for an important security issue, Joomla published an announcement a few days prior stating the exact release date and time to help users prepare and plan for the update. Read more…
Website developers and owners must remain vigilant to the emerging threats in Joomla and its ecosystem of extensions and templates. Use the Joomla security resources below to learn the best methods of building and maintaining safer websites. 1. Joomla security checklist The Joomla Security Checklist is the perfect place to start when Read more…