Features Included in the Core Jetpack Plugin

With the core Jetpack plugin, you can access a range of free and paid features that enhance your WordPress site to elevate your online presence.

Jetpack includes a set of features that are free and available to all WordPress sites with the Jetpack plugin installed — no paid plan required. This page lists all free features included in the core Jetpack plugin, along with the paid features available through Jetpack plans.

If you are looking for what Jetpack offers without paying, the free features are listed in the first section below.

Free features included in the core Jetpack plugin

Security

• Brute force attack protection (formerly Protect) — Protect your site from traditional and distributed brute force attacks.
• Monitor — Alerts you via email if your site goes down.
• Single Sign On — Use your WordPress.com credentials to register for and sign into self-hosted WordPress sites quickly and securely.

Performance

• Site Accelerator — Helps your pages load faster by allowing Jetpack to optimize your images and serve your images and static files (like CSS and JavaScript) from our global network of servers.

Management

• Gravatar Hovercards — Make your Gravatar profile visible to those viewing your blog.
• JSON API — Authorizes applications and services to securely connect to your blog, and allows them to use your content or offer you new functionality.
• Plugin Management — Allows you to choose which plugins update automatically.
• Repeat Visitor Block — Enables the author to control the visibility of its nested block(s) depending on how many times a visitor has previously visited the page.
• Notifications — Receive notifications for new comments and Likes in your admin bar and on your mobile device.

Growth

• Likes — Allows readers to show their appreciation for your posts with a single click.
• SEO Tools — Optimize your site for search engines by taking advantage of our SEO tools.
• Sharing — Adds sharing buttons to your blog posts so readers can easily share your content.
• Site Verification — Verify your site for use with Google, Bing, and Pinterest and their tools.
• Sitemaps — Generate a list of pages to be indexed by search engines like Google or Bing.
• Subscriptions (Classic Editor) / Subscription Form Block — Allow visitors to receive notifications of your latest posts or comments.
• Related Posts (Classic Editor) / Related Posts Block — Show contextual posts your visitors might be interested in reading after they’re done with their current post.
• Comments — Replace your default comment form with an improved system with integrated social media login options.
• Comment Likes — Allows readers to like other comments to show their agreement, approval, or appreciation.

Create

• Business Hours Block — Allows you to display your business’s opening hours on your site.
• Carousel — Display a gorgeous full-screen photo browsing experience with comments and EXIF metadata.
• Contact Info Block — Lets you add your contact information (email address, physical address, phone number) to any post or page.
• Contact Form (Classic Editor) / Form block — Offer your readers the ability to get in touch, without giving out your personal email address.
• Custom Content Types — Adds custom post types (CPTs) for Portfolios and Testimonials to your site.
• Form Editor – Create, manage, and organize forms.
• Extra Sidebar Widgets — Extra widgets you can add to your blog, including RSS Links, Twitter Timelines, and Facebook Like Boxes.
• GIF Block — Allows you to easily search for and embed an animated GIF image from Giphy directly into a post or page on your WordPress site.
• Infinite Scroll — Pulls the next posts automatically into view when the reader approaches the bottom of the page.
• Map Block — Allows you to add a map to any post or page on your site.
• Markdown (Classic Editor) / Markdown Block — Allows you to 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.
• Post by Email — Publish posts using any email client.
• Shortcode Embeds — Embed videos from YouTube, tweets from Twitter, and other media across the web.
• Slideshow Block — Lets you insert an image slideshow into a post or page. 
• Star Rating Block — Allows any site author to add reviews to the site
• Tiled Galleries (Classic Editor) / Tiled Galleries Block — Display your image galleries in three different styles: a rectangular mosaic, a square mosaic, and a circular grid.
• WP.me Shortlinks — Generate short and simple links to your content using the wp.me domain.
• Widget Visibility — Configure widgets to appear only on specific pages.

Many Jetpack features related to content are available as blocks. For a complete list, visit our Jetpack Blocks page.

Paid features in the Jetpack core plugin

• Backups — Save every change and get back online quickly with one‑click backup restores.
• AI Assistant — The most powerful AI tool for WordPress.
• Jetpack Social — Share new posts on social media networks automatically or schedule future shares with custom messages.
• Payments — Add a payment button specifically for recurring donations, using Stripe as the payment gateway.
• Security Scanning — Anti-virus, malware, and threat detection for your WordPress site with automated resolution.
• Search — A powerful replacement for WordPress’ built-in search, powered by Elasticsearch in the WordPress.com cloud
• Simple Payments Block — Lets you add a payment button to any post or page, and immediately start accepting PayPal payments for physical products, digital goods, or donations.
• Site Stats — View site visits by date, as well as most popular Pages and Posts.
• Spam Filtering — Automatically filter out spam comments, product reviews, or contact form submissions.
• Video Hosting (Classic Editor) / VideoPress Block — Upload videos for fast, reliable hosting on WordPress.com.
• WordAds — Monetize your site by displaying high-quality ads on your site.

Other Jetpack Features in Standalone Plugins

Jetpack Protect

The Jetpack Protect plugin provides additional site protection features including free daily malware scanning and a web application firewall (WAF). A paid upgrade adds realtime malware scanning and an enhanced firewall

Jetpack Boost

The Jetpack Boost plugin provides site speed optimization tools to help optimize CSS and JavaScript loading, improve image delivery, and caching. Many of these features are available for free. You can consult the feature reference for a full list.