PHP is the programming language that powers WordPress. Depending on your server configuration, the exact version of PHP running your website may be included in its HTTP response headers. For example, your server might return: X-Powered-By: PHP/8.2.33 Visitors do not normally see HTTP response headers when browsing your website, but Read more
WordPress includes a built-in debugging system that can help identify problems with plugins, themes and custom code. When debug logging is enabled using the default settings, WordPress typically writes PHP errors, warnings and notices to: wp-content/debug.log The information in this file can be extremely useful when troubleshooting a website. Unfortunately, Read more
WS Form PRO is a powerful forms plugin for WordPress. Through our latest premium plugin integration, users can easily apply these paid updates safely and securely across all their sites at once with Watchful. Meet WS Form PRO Launched in 2018, WS Form has skyrocketed in popularity. This popularity is Read more
SEOPress is a popular marketing tool for WordPress with the free version installed on over 250,000 sites around the world. SEOPress Pro is the premium version. Watchful can now be used to remotely update all SEOPress versions, both free and paid. What is SEOPress Pro? The free version of SEOPress Read more
If you read this blog, you’ll know that we take website security very seriously. And we always recommend using the Cloudflare service as one of the tools in your security toolbox. In this post we will share a simple Cloudflare hack that blocks many of the WordPress brute-force attacks your Read more
Summertime is typically a bit of a slower period here at Watchful. So our engineers get a chance to chip away at some of the less-urgent tasks on our roadmap. While many of these don’t warrant their own blog post, I thought it might be useful to compile our platform Read more
Watchful is a collection of tools and services that simplifies the maintenance and management of websites. But Watchful cannot solve every maintenance need for every user. Thus, you can extend Watchful with apps that communicate changes on your website to your Watchful account. What are apps? Watchful apps are WordPress Read more
With over 22 plugins on the WordPress repository, Jordy Meow is a prolific plugin developer. Of these 22, seven have premium versions available from the Meow Apps website. Popular titles include Perfect Images Pro and Media Cleaner Pro. One of Watchful’s unique features is the ability to update premium WordPress Read more
Managing access to a large number of WordPress sites can be time-consuming and tedious. Single sign-on for WordPress is a new feature automatically included in all Watchful Premium plans. Single sign-on for WordPress makes short work for anyone managing users on multiple WordPress sites. What is user management in WordPress? Read more
One of the things that sets Watchful apart from other WordPress maintenance tools is our support for Premium WordPress plugin updates. Update support for the following paid plugins/plugin suites is now live: GiveWP add-ons Formidable Forms WP Staging PRO Advanced Ads Pro Updates for GiveWP add-ons GiveWP is a powerful Read more