A brief overview of WordPress's most popular plugin, Jetpack.

1. Jetpack
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2. Michele Butcher
➢ Accounts Lead at Valet.io
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3. Installing Jetpack
1. Go to Plugins > Add New
2. You will see “JetPack by WordPress.com” at the top of the “Add Plugins” page
3. Click “Install Now”
4. Once installed, the page will refresh and ask to activate plugin. Click that you
wank to activate it.
5. You will need to connect your Jetpack account to your WordPress.com account. If
you do not have one, they are free at WordPress.com
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4. Installing Jetpack Continued
1. Once Installed and connected to your WordPress.com account it will ask you how
you want to configure Jetpack. YOu can choose to Jumpstart Your site or choose
your features to activate.
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5. Installing Jetpack Continued
They also have a cool dashboard to activate their most popular features
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6. The Features
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7. Beautiful Math
This feature is to be able to show complex math equations easily on a website.
You will probably never use this feature :)
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8. Carousel
With Carousel active, any
standard WordPress galleries
you have embedded in posts or
pages will launch a gorgeous
full-screen photo browsing
experience with comments and
EXIF metadata.
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9. Comments
Comments enables your visitors to
use their WordPress.com, Twitter, or
Facebook accounts when
commenting on your site.
Jetpack tries to match your site's
color scheme automatically, but you
can make manual adjustments at the
bottom of the Discussion Settings
page.
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10. Contact Form
A contact form is a great way to offer your readers the ability to get in touch, without
giving out your personal email address.
Each contact form can easily be customized to fit your needs. When a user submits
your contact form, the feedback will be filtered through Akismet (if it is active on your
site) to make sure it’s not spam. Any legitimate feedback will then be emailed to you,
and added to your feedback management area.
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11. Custom CSS
he Custom CSS editor gives you the ability to
add to or replace your theme's CSS, all while
supplying syntax coloring, auto-indentation,
and immediate feedback on the validity of the
CSS you're writing.
To use the CSS editor, go to Appearance →
Edit CSS.
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12. Custom Content Types
Organize and display different types of
content on your site, such as Portfolio
Projects and Testimonials. These content
types are separate from Posts and Pages.
To enable a custom content type, head over
to Settings → Writing → Your Custom
Content Types and activate either "Portfolio Projects” or “Testimonials” by checking the corresponding
checkbox. You can now add projects and testimonials under the new "Portfolio” and “Testimonials” menu items
in your sidebar.
Once added, your custom content will be visible on your website, or you may add them with shortcodes.
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13. Enhanced Distribution
Jetpack will automatically take the great published content from your blog or website
and share it instantly with third party services like search engines, increasing your
reach and traffic.
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14. Extra Sidebar Widgets
The Twitter Widget shows your latest tweets within a sidebar on your theme.
The Facebook Like Box Widget shows your Facebook Like Box within a sidebar on
your theme.
The Google+ Badge Widget allows you to display information about a person, a page,
or a community from Google+.
The Image Widget lets you easily add images to a sidebar on your theme.
The Gravatar Widget allows you to pull in your Gravatar image along with some of
your Gravatar profile data.
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15. Extra Sidebar Widgets Cont
The Display WordPress Posts Widget lets you display up to ten recent posts from
another WordPress.com blog, or a self-hosted WordPress site with Jetpack enabled.
The Social Media Icons Widget lets you add icons for the most popular social
networks to your sidebar or other widget area.
The Contact Info Widget helps you display important information about your
business. The widget allows you to show your business on a map, as well as your
opening hours and contact information.
The Goodreads Widget lets you display your Goodreads Shelf in your sidebar.
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16. Gravatar Hovercards
Hovercards enhance plain Gravatar
images with information about a
person: name, bio, pictures, their contact
info, and other services.
To see hovercards, look at any blog post on your blog that has comments. If the
commenter has a hovercard associated with their gravatar, mouse over their
image and the hovercard will appear. To turn hovercards off, click the
Deactivate button above.
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17. Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll allows your theme to show all posts on one page in an “infinite scroll”
setting. To see if your theme is compatible or to learn more about infinite scroll please
see http://jetpack.com/support/infinite-scroll/.
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18. JSON API
Jetpack will allow you to authorize applications and services to securely connect to
your blog and allow them to use your content in new ways and offer you new
functionality.
Developers can use WordPress.com's OAuth2 authentication system and
WordPress.com REST API to manage and access your site's content.
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19. Likes
Likes allow your readers to show their appreciation for your posts and other published
content using their WordPress.com accounts. Your readers will then be able to review
their liked posts from WordPress.com.
Displayed below your posts will be how many people have liked your posts and the
Gravatars of those who have liked them.
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20. Manage
Enabling Manage allows you to update your self-hosted WordPress sites along with
any WordPress.com sites you have, all in one simple dashboard.
Plugins - Now you can update plugins, set plugins to automatically update, and
activate or deactivate plugins on a per-site basis or in bulk from
wordpress.com/plugins.
Themes - List your installed themes, search, and activate them from
wordpress.com/design.
Menus - Create a new menu for your site, or edit existing menus from
wordpress.com/menus.
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21. Markdown
Markdown lets you compose posts and comments with links, lists, and other styles
using regular characters and punctuation marks. Markdown is used by writers and
bloggers who want a quick and easy way to write rich text, without having to take their
hands off the keyboard, and without learning a lot of complicated codes and shortcuts.
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22. Mobile Theme
There's a good chance that visitors to your site will be using a smartphone, and it's
important to provide them with a great reading experience while on the small screen.
Jetpack's mobile theme is optimized for small screens. It uses the header image,
background, and widgets from your current theme for a great custom look. Post
format support is included, so your photos and galleries will look fantastic on a
smartphone.
Visitors on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and other mobile devices will
automatically see the mobile theme, with the option to view the full site. You can
enable or disable the mobile theme by clicking the "Activate" or "Deactive" button
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23. Monitor
Nobody likes downtime, and that's why Jetpack Monitor is on the job, keeping tabs on
your site by checking it every five minutes. As soon as any downtime is detected, you
will receive an email notification alerting you to the issue. That way you can act
quickly, to get your site back online again!
We’ll also let you know as soon as your site is up and running, so you can keep an eye
on total downtime.
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24. Notifications
Keep up with the latest happenings
on all your WordPress sites and
interact with other WordPress.com
users.
You can view your notifications in
the Toolbar and on WordPress.com.
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25. Omnisearch
Search once, get results from everything! Currently supports searching posts, pages,
comments, media, and plugins.
Omnisearch plays nice with other plugins by letting other providers offer results as
well.
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26. Photon
Give your site a boost by loading images in posts from the WordPress.com content
delivery network. We cache your images and serve them from our super-fast network,
reducing the burden on your Web host with the click of a button.
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27. Posts By Email
Post by Email is a way of publishing posts on your blog by email. Any email client
can be used to send the email, allowing you to publish quickly and easily from
devices such as cell phones.
Manage your Post By Email address from your profile settings.
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28. Protect
Protect is a cloud-powered brute force attack prevention tool. We leverage the millions
of WordPress sites to identify and block malicious IPs. Protect tracks failed login
attempts across all Jetpack-connected sites using the Protect module. If any single IP
has too many failed attempts in a short period of time, they are blocked from logging
in to any site with this plugin installed. Protect is derived from BruteProtect, and will
disable BruteProtect on your site if it is currently enabled.
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29. Publicize
Publicize allows you to connect your blog to popular social networking sites and
automatically share new posts with your friends. You can make a connection
for just yourself or for all users on your blog.
Publicize allows you to share your posts on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, Path,
and Linkedin.
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30. Related Posts
"Related Posts" shows additional
relevant links from your site under
your posts. If the feature is enabled,
links appear underneath your
Sharing Buttons and
WordPress.com Likes (if you’ve
turned these on).
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31. Sharing
Share your posts with Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other services. You can
configure services to appear as icons, text, or both. Some services have additional
options to display smart buttons, such as Twitter, which will update the number of
times the post has been shared.
The following services are included: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, LinkedIn, Google
+1, Print, and Email.
To configure your sharing settings, go to the Settings → Sharing menu.
Drag and drop sharing services into the enabled section to have them show up on your
site, and drag them into the hidden section to have them hidden behind a button.
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32. Shortcode Embeds
Shortcodes allow you to easily and safely embed media from other places in your site.
With just one simple code, you can tell WordPress to embed YouTube, Flickr, and
other media.
Enter a shortcode directly into the Post/Page editor to embed media.
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33. Single Sign On
With Single Sign On, your users will be able to log in to or register for your WordPress
site with the same credentials they use on WordPress.com. It's safe and secure.
Once enabled, a "Log in with WordPress.com" option will be added to your existing log
in form.
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34. Site Icon
WordPress core now has this feature built in. Please ignore this feature in Jetpack
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35. Site Stats
There are many plugins and
services that provide statistics,
but data can be
overwhelming. Site Stats
makes the most popular
metrics easy to understand
through a clear and attractive
interface.
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36. Site Verification
Use these tools to verify that you own/control your website with other external
services like Google, Bing and Pinterest.
Verifying your site allows you to access advanced features on these other services (e.g.
Webmaster tools, Google Search Console, or getting a verified badge). We'll just add
an invisible meta tag to the source code of your homepage.
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37. Sitemaps
This module creates two XML sitemap files that list the URLs of posts and pages in
your site with important information about each one. This files can be accessed by
search engines like Google or Bing so they can crawl and understand your site.
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38. Spelling and Grammar
The After the Deadline Proofreading
service improves your writing by using
artificial intelligence to find your errors
and offer smart suggestions.
After the Deadline provides a number of
customization options, which you can
edit in your profile.
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39. Subscriptions
Easily allow any visitor to subscribe to all of your posts via email through a widget in
your blog’s sidebar. Every time you publish a post, WordPress.com will send a
notification to all your subscribers. When leaving comments, your visitors can also
subscribe to a post’s comments to keep up with the conversation.
To use the Subscriptions widget, go to Appearance → Widgets. Drag the widget
labeled “Blog Subscriptions (Jetpack)” into one of your sidebars and configure away.
You can also make changes to your Subscription settings at the bottom of the
Discussion Settings page.
To customize the emails sent from your blog to your followers, check the settings at
the bottom of the Reading Settings page.
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40. Tiled Galleries
Create elegant magazine-style mosaic layouts for your photos without having to use an
external graphic editor.
When adding a gallery to your post, you now have the option to select a layout style
for your images. We've added support for Rectangular, Square, and Circular galleries.
By default, galleries will continue to display using the standard thumbnail grid layout.
To make the rectangular layout the default for all of your site's galleries, head over to
Settings → Media and check the box next to "Display all your gallery pictures in a cool
mosaic."
Note: Images in tiled galleries require extra-special processing, so they will be served
from WordPress.com's CDN even if the Photon module is disabled.
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41. VideoPress
With the VideoPress module you can easily upload videos to your WordPress site and
embed them in your posts and pages. This module requires a WordPress.com account
with an active VideoPress subscription. Once you have purchased a VideoPress
subscription, click here to configure VideoPress.
This is a paid feature.
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42. WP.me Shortlinks
Instead of typing or copy-pasting long URLs, you
can now get a short and simple link to your posts and pages. This uses the super
compact wp.me domain name, and gives you a unique URL you can use that will be
safe and reliable.
It’s perfect for use on Twitter, Facebook, and cell phone text messages where every
character counts.
To use shortlinks, go to any already published post (or publish something new!). A
“Get Shortlink” button will be visible under the Post title. When you click it, a dialog
box will appear with the shortlink and you can copy and paste to Twitter, Facebook or
wherever your heart desires.
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43. Widget Visibility
Control which pages your widgets appear on with Widget Visibility.
To control visibility, expand the widget and click the Visibility button next to the Save
button, and then, choose a set of visibility options.
For example, if you wanted the Archives widget to only appear on category archives
and error pages, choose "Show" from the first dropdown and then add two rules: "Page
is 404 Error Page" and "Category is All Category Pages."
You can also hide widgets based on the current page. For example, if you don't want
the Archives widget to appear on search results pages, choose "Hide" and "Page is
Search results."
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44. Data Backups
With a monthly subscription, the VaultPress plugin will backup your site’s content,
themes, and plugins in real-time, as well as perform regular security scans for common
threats and attacks.
This is a paid feature.
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45. Questions?
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