Jetpack 4.6: Google Analytics Integration, PHP 7.1 Compatibility, and Publicize Improvements

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1. Girolamo Aloe says:

   February 7, 2017 at 7:39 pm

   Hi, the previous release made a changing on the “Top Posts” widget that gave me a great advantage, the possibility to show a full feature image of the Top Post in the sidebar by a vertical list.

   I mean something like the “Display WordPress Posts” that shows the recent posts from another website. This one shows the feature image very well and I use it on all my websites.

   Why don’t you give the possibility to set the “Top Posts” widget showing a Full Feature image just like is done in the “Display WordPress Post” widget?

   Using the “bug” in the previous release of the Top Posts widget I was able to make my sidebar very attractive just making a few changing in the css classes making the feature images able to cover the width of the 100% of the sidebar.

   .widgets-list-layout-links {
   width: 100%;
   font-weight: bold;
   }
   .widgets-list-layout .widgets-list-layout-blavatar {
   width: 100%;
   max-width: 100%
   }

   Now that you forced the use of the square images cropped: 200×200 or 40×40, it is not more possible to have the full feature image.

   Please, consider the possibility to have the feature images like the ones in the “Display WordPress Posts” widget.

   kind regards

   G. Aloe

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   • Jeremy says:

     February 7, 2017 at 9:58 pm

     You can customize the look of the Top Posts Widget and change the size of the images thanks to the jetpack_top_posts_widget_image_options filter. You can learn how to use this filter here:
     https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_top_posts_widget_image_options/

     To customize the widget even more, you can use other filters as explained in this post.

     I hope this helps!

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     • Girolamo Aloe says:

       February 7, 2017 at 10:14 pm

       Hi, thank you very much for the answer. I will study all the things. 🙂

       I had no idea about these features to use.

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     • Girolamo Aloe says:

       February 9, 2017 at 12:12 am

       Hi,
       I have another question.

       How can I get the image not cropped to be a thumb but have the size and the height proportional to the original image?

       thank you for your support.

       G. Aloe

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     • Jeremy says:

       February 9, 2017 at 3:11 pm

       Since the images are resized via the Photon service, you can use the Photon API to change the cropping parameters used when resizing the image. You can find out more about the API and how to use it here:

       • https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/
       • https://jetpack.com/2013/07/17/use-photon-to-serve-post-thumbnails-with-custom/

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2. jpduvaleix says:

   February 7, 2017 at 8:01 pm

   Hello,

   Since your last update I no longer have a connection to the database … What can I do? My website is http://www.journaldespeintres.com

   Best regards

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   • Jeremy says:

     February 7, 2017 at 10:00 pm

     Your site appears to be working properly right now; could you try to update again?

     If the problem reappears, Could you add the following to your site’s wp-config.php file?

     
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );

     if ( WP_DEBUG ) {

     @error_reporting( E_ALL );
     @ini_set( 'log_errors', true );
     @ini_set( 'log_errors_max_len', '0' );

     define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
     define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
     define( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );
     define( 'SAVEQUERIES', true );

     }


     Your wp-config.php file may already include a line that says “define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);”. You can remove it, and replace it by the code above.

     Once you’ve done so, update Jetpack again until you get the same error, and then check the wp-content/debug.log file for errors. You can send us the error logs via this form.

     Thank you!

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3. Mark Root-Wiley says:

   February 7, 2017 at 11:13 pm

   Looking forward to these fixes and features 🙂

   Can we get some more clarity around this entry in the changelog:

   > Keep an eye out for a note from WooCommerce on how your e-commerce store may benefit from our new USPS and CanadaPost shipping functionality.

   Is that related to WooCommerce Connect? Has this feature been shifted into Jetpack?

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   • Jeremy says:

     February 8, 2017 at 8:46 am

     That’s indeed related! WooCommerce Connect is now called WooCommerce Services, and is available on WordPress.org here.

     You’re probably familiar with Jetpack’s existing “Just In Time” message delivery system, used to display notices in specific area of the dashboard, when it’s relevant for a site owner. We’ve used those notices to let you know how VaultPress can help backup your site, or how you can update multiple sites from our central WordPress.com interface.

     In this release, we will start displaying notices to WooCommerce users as well, to let them know about the WooCommerce Services plugin and how it can help them with their business.

     You can see a preview of the notice and learn more about when it is displayed by checking the related issue on GitHub.

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4. Katia Bockstaele says:

   February 8, 2017 at 12:28 am

   Hi,
   I just updated to the new version and lost my connection to wordpress.com. This is the message I’m getting: Jetpack requires your site to be publicly accessible.
   Everything was working great before, and there’s no maintenance mode active. Could you please point me to a possible solution to get it all working again?

   Thanks! My website is http://hetpeperkoekhuis.be

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   • Jeremy says:

     February 8, 2017 at 8:48 am

     Jetpack uses your site’s XML-RPC file to communicate with WordPress.com. Unfortunately I cannot access that file on your site at the moment:
     http://hetpeperkoekhuis.be/xmlrpc.php

     If you use a security plugin to block access to the file, you’ll need to configure it to allow incoming and outgoing connections to /xmlrpc.php.

     If you do not use such plugin, you’ll want to contact your hosting provider and ask them if they currently block access to your site’s XML-RPC file.

     I hope this helps!

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5. jpduvaleix says:

   February 8, 2017 at 8:15 am

   I apologize but you are not concerned about my site problems, but it was my site host, Nuxit, which was down.

   Best regards

   Jean-Pierre Duvaleix

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6. eemskrant says:

   February 8, 2017 at 9:09 pm

   just updated to the new version and lost my connection to the site, removed the plugin with FTP and the site came back online. reinstalled same problem. Older version of the plugin lockes me out off the dashboard now. How to fix?

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   • Jeremy says:

     February 9, 2017 at 3:09 pm

     Could you send us an email with more details about the errors you got when you tried to install the plugin, so we can help you get this fixed? Thanks!

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7. Jakob Boman says:

   February 15, 2017 at 7:18 pm

   Love the integration with Google analytics!
   Great work.

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8. Michael Avery says:

   February 20, 2017 at 9:49 am

   Thank you!

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