Here at Watchful, our goal is to save you time and money (as much as $650 per year on every site). One key way we do that is by automating tasks: So we’re delighted to launch another automation feature: plugin auto-updates! This feature allows Watchful to automatically update software you Read more
Are you ready for a new Watchful feature?! We’re 7 years old now and moving faster than ever. In the last month, we’ve launched support for commercial WordPress plugins and also enabled support for WordPress backup plugins. We’re already rolling with the next new Watchful feature: auto-updates! This feature will Read more
Running a WordPress agency means that you spend a lot of time maintaining sites and updating plugins. Watchful can help reduce your WordPress maintenance costs so your agency can be more profitable. Good maintenance mean happy customers We all have people helping us with maintenance. Wherever you live, people will 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
In last week’s post to celebrate our 7th anniversary, we mentioned that our main aim for 2019 is to achieve feature parity between Joomla and WordPress. This week we’re taking a big step towards meeting that goal by providing updates for premium WordPress plugins. Watchful can currently update any plugin 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
With warm weather and longer days, most of us step back a little during the summer months to get outside more often, spend time with friends and family, and take some time off. And while that’s certainly true at Watchful, we’ve also had a busy summer in preparation for the Read more
In case you have not yet heard, the popular Joomla extension developer NoNumber is no more: gone, kaput, over. But don’t worry, the moment NoNumber ceased to exist they rebranded as Regular Labs! That’s right, all of your favorite NoNumber add-ons for Joomla — such as Advanced Module Manager and Read more