We are thrilled to announce the release of Jetpack 12.0, featuring three new blocks to elevate your WordPress experience: VideoPress, Cookie Consent, and Writing Prompts. Get ready to explore these exciting additions to the Jetpack ecosystem!
Continue reading → Jetpack 12.0 – Unveiling New Blocks: VideoPress, Cookie Consent, and Writing Prompts
The new year comes with a shiny new Jetpack. This month, we’re shipping new features for VideoPress, as well as other under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes to create a better Jetpack experience for you and your site.
Continue reading → Jetpack 10.5: New features and under-the-hood improvements
Videos are a powerful form of communication. They’re attention grabbing, fun to watch, and even more fun to share — people are twice as likely to share videos than any other form of content. And, when used correctly, they can reduce customer service calls and increase traffic, leads, and sales.
Continue reading → How to Host Videos on Your Website (Best Way Explained)
This month’s release is packed with improvements to the features you love. We’ve also ensured that your favorite plugin will work seamlessly with the newest version of WordPress, scheduled for release in just a few weeks.
Continue reading → Jetpack 7.9: Better blocks and a peek at the future of Jetpack Search
Do you have any videos on your site? If not, you probably should consider adding some.
When it comes to getting the attention of a potential customer or fan, few things are more effective than a captivating video. In fact, Marketing Land reports that people are typically more likely to make purchases after watching product videos.
The use of video content on a business site captures visitor attention and reduces bounce rates. Videos give visitors an incentive to stay and interact with your site longer, leading them to become more interested in your brand in the process. The more invested a person is, the more likely they are to transition from a potential customer to an actual one.
Despite the many benefits of video content, most small business sites don’t use it. This is a huge missed opportunity. Fortunately, it’s never too late to add videos and help your site stand out among the crowd!
Continue reading → Ways to Boost User Engagement with Videos
No one likes a slow site. Most visitors will click away if a page isn’t loading fast enough, and Google actually gives sites lower search engine rankings if they don’t load quickly.
Luckily, there are multiple ways you can improve your site’s speed. Images and videos are the biggest culprits when it comes to slowing down a site, but they can be forced to load faster by using something called a content delivery network (or CDN).
Let’s explore the CDN basics, and how you can use the CDNs that Jetpack provides to speed up your images, your videos, and ultimately your entire site.
Continue reading → How Does a CDN Improve Performance & Page Speed?
Welcome to Jetpack 4.5, available now for upgrade or installation. We’re starting the year in style with some very exciting additions and improvements that we can’t wait for you to try. This release includes:
Continue reading → Jetpack 4.5: Monetize your site, brand new VideoPress, and many new shortcodes and widgets
The new Jetpack introduces improvements for better performance under the hood and to allow you work faster.
WordPress 4.5 shipped with a new feature, Selective Refresh: if your theme supports it, widgets refresh in the Customizer as you edit them, letting you see changes instantly without refreshing the entire page.
We’ve updated Jetpack widgets to leverage Selective Refresh, and now they’ll update in real time as well!
A new tool lets you edit VideoPress shortcodes right in the Editor, with a fancy new modal window containing key playback options:
Plus, videos placed in the Editor now adjust themselves to your theme’s content width, so you can more accurately see how it will look in your post or page when published.
Use WooCommerce? You just got sharing options for each of your products:
Social icons are now placed under the “Add to cart” button in singular product views, making it easier for customers to share your products with their friends and fans on social media.
We’ve done a better job explaining the benefits of Jetpack and connecting it to WordPress.com when the plugin is installed but not yet connected.
We also added handy links to shortcode documentation to convey the types of media you can quickly and safely embed.
Jetpack protect helps safeguard your site against brute-force attacks, and now it’s got more muscle behind it. We’ve updated the code and routines that verify your site is protected to be more efficient. For folks using the Contact Form module, sweeping spam submissions out of your database is now faster.
Custom Content Types: a new CSS class on Testimonial featured images — has-testimonial-thumbnail — allows you to customize Jetpack custom post types as you see fit.
Theme Tools: improved schema.org microdata for breadcrumbs gives search engines an easier time knowing what page they are on, and how that page relates to the other pages in your site hierarchy.
Widget Visibility: get granular with your widget display:
Select widgets and specify to show or hide them right from custom post types, in both single and archive views.
We also fixed some issues…
Jetpack_IXR_Client class which caused fatal PHP errors in some server setups.responsive-videos.min.js in order to address a false positive virus alert in ClamAV. Expect it to be re-minified in 4.0.1 once we resolve the issue with ClamAV.Thanks to everyone who contributed to 4.0:
Alex Kirk, Barry Abrahamson, Bernhard Reiter, Biser Perchinkov, Brando Meniconi, Brandon Hubbard, Brandon Kraft, Christopher Finke, Dan Walmsley, Derek Smart, Drew Butler, Elio Rivero, Enej Bajgoric, George Stephanis, Igor Zinovyev, Ivan Kristianto, Jeff Golenski, Jeremy Herve, Jesse Friedman, Joey Kudish, Lance Willett, Matt Wiebe, Michael Cain, Miguel Lezama, Mohammad Jangda, Patrick Rauland, Philip John, Richard Muscat, RC Lations, Rocco Tripaldi, Sam Hotchkiss, Tammie Lister, Thomas Guillot, Weston Ruter.
We’ve released 4.0.2 that fixes a fatal error that was caused by Jetpack not being able to find a library directory.
In the latest update to Jetpack, we have some exciting new features to share with you including integration of Google services and products, adding VideoPress to our list of modules, and the ability to embed your Facebook updates into your blog posts. Let’s take a closer look at each of these new features!
Continue reading → Jetpack 2.5: Google Integration, VideoPress, and Facebook Embeds
