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Is Jetpack Bloated? More Data that Debunks the Myth
The numbers don’t lie! Get the truth about what happens to site speed when Jetpack is installed and find out how it compares to WordPress core with no plugins at all.
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Does Jetpack Slow Down WordPress? Is Jetpack Bloated?
Don’t believe rumors. Jetpack is designed to speed up your site – not cause bloat that bogs it down. Find out what happened when someone tested the plugin’s impact.
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Automattic Acquires BruteProtect
I’m excited to announce that Automattic has acquired BruteProtect, a plugin and service that protects your sites from malicious logins, saves server resources so your site runs faster, and keeps all your sites on the latest and greatest versions of WordPress core, plugins, and themes. The plugin and service are currently available, but over the coming months…
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“Hear it from us first”: Why every site should run Jetpack
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that helps you optimise your site on various fronts: traffic, development and user experience amongst others. There is one feature however which I feel is critical: Jetpack Monitor. Simply put, Jetpack Monitor keeps tabs on your site and alerts you the moment that downtime is detected. Like a lot of…
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How to install Stats and Analytics on your WordPress site with Jetpack
If you run a website, you probably want to know how many visitors you’re getting. So, unsurprisingly, Jetpack Stats is one of the most popular features we offer! This feature gives you the ability to quickly see how many visits your site gets, what posts and pages are most popular and where your visitors are coming from. There…
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How to add a default fallback image if no image can be found in a post
When you publish a new post on your site, Jetpack crawls it and looks for images that can be used when sharing that post on Facebook, on Twitter, or if that post appears in the Top Posts and Pages widget in your sidebar. Jetpack starts by looking for a Featured Image. If you didn’t define…
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Ever accidentally publicize a post that you didn’t mean to?
Note: Publicize is now auto-share and is part of Jetpack Social. Ever accidentally publicize a post that you didn’t mean to? This snippet will prevent the connections from being auto-selected, so you need to manually select them if you’d like to publicize something. You can place this code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file, or…
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How to add JavaScript events to the Carousel view
Add this to your site’s js to enable events such as adding Google Analytics tracking code to individual Carousel slides: You can read more about it here.
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How to disable the auto-activation of a Jetpack module
In Jetpack 2.6, we will introduce a new filter, jetpack_get_default_modules. It will allow you to stop the auto-activation of a specific Jetpack module. Here is an example with the Widget Visibility module: Reference. If you wanted all Jetpack modules to be deactivated by default, you could use the following code:
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How to load only a specific Jetpack module
Sometimes you do not want to see a specific module in the Jetpack menu. You might not use it at all, or you might want to make sure other admins can’t activate it. For such cases, you can use the jetpack_get_available_modules filter to control the list of modules available in Jetpack. Load only a specific…
