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Jetpack 9.2: Ready for WordPress 5.6

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Jeremy Herve

Jetpack 9.2 is now available. Give the latest version a try, by installing Jetpack or updating your existing installation.

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Posted in Releases | Tagged 9.2, blocks, maintenance, Releases, WordPress | 6 Comments

Meet Joen from Jetpack: A Connoisseur of Sunshine and WordPress

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Suzi Siegel

At Jetpack, our Happiness Engineers are usually busy supporting our customers to ensure that they have everything they need for a successful website — but we interrupted one of them for an inside look at Jetpack and some valuable tips and tricks.

Meet Joen, a Jetpack Happiness Engineer who grew up in Viking territory but now works remotely under the sunshine and blue skies of southern Spain.

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How to Avoid Common WordPress Plugin Problems with Jetpack

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Mariah Liszewski

One of WordPress’s biggest benefits is plugins, which let you expand your site’s functionality to meet your exact needs. There are no limits to the type or number of plugins you can install and activate — there are currently thousands available in the WordPress repository.

But with this unlimited flexibility comes responsibility, since each plugin introduces its own set of potential issues, from site slowdowns to crashes. With a little knowledge and a little Jetpack, you can resolve the three most common challenges — or prevent them from happening in the first place.

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Posted in Learn, Uncategorized | Tagged Performance, plugins, Security, speed, WordPress | 2 Comments

Reach New Customers and Boost Your SEO With a Quality Blog

Posted on July 20, 2018 by Rachel McCollin

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Posted in Search Engine Optimization, Tips & Tricks | Tagged blogging, blogging for business, Comments, SEO, WordPress | 16 Comments

What to Consider When Changing Your WordPress Theme

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Lance Cleveland

You’ve been thinking about changing the look of your site for a while now. You found a WordPress theme that you like, but you’re a bit nervous about what will happen to your site after you activate the new theme.

You’re overcome with questions: Will you lose any of your site data? How do you pick and customize a new theme? How will a new theme impact your site layout, and will widgets that you installed remain intact?

There are many things to consider before making the switch to a new theme. Knowing what to look for is half the battle, but we’re here to help guide you along the way.

Let’s explore exactly what you should keep in mind when changing your WordPress theme to make it a smooth transition.

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Posted in Website Design | Tagged design, site design, theme, Widgets, WordPress, wordpress theme | 1 Comment

Jetpack 3.8.1 – WordPress 4.4 Compatible

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Derek Smart

With the WordPress 4.4 Release Candidate now available, we wanted to release our fully-compatible version of Jetpack a little early. So here it is, along with some minor bug fixes and accessibility improvements.

Photon + Responsive Images

There are some cool things coming in WordPress 4.4, such as responsive images. To take full advantage of this, we made sure that Photon serves responsive images as well.

Twenty Sixteen

If you’ve had the pleasure of testing out Twenty Sixteen, we’ve included some compatibility styling to make sure Jetpack features such as Related Posts, Share Buttons, Likes, and Infinite Scroll all look great.

Accessibility Enhancements

WordPress made some adjustments to the heading levels in 4.4 to improve accessibility. We scrubbed Jetpack to make sure our heading levels are semantic and accessible to screen readers as well.

More Streamlined

We went through and optimized the images that we display within the Jetpack Admin, which dropped our image directory from 1.8 MB to 856 KB. Every little bit counts!

Bug Fixes

Fixed some minor bugs with Carousel, Markdown, Single Sign On, and Subscriptions.

Contributors for this release include Adam Heckler, Alex Kirk, Brandon Kraft, Chris Wiegman, Derek Smart, Eduardo Reveles, Enej Bajgoric, Ian Dunn, Igor Zinovyev, Jake Jackson, Jeff Golenski, Jeremy Herve, Joey Kudish, Konstantin Obenland, Michael Cain. Miguel Lezama, Rocco Tripaldi, Sam Hotchkiss, Scott Grant, and Takashi Irie.

See full changelog.

Posted in Releases | Tagged Accessibility, Photon, Twenty Sixteen, WordPress | 11 Comments

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Is Jetpack Bloated? More Data that Debunks the Myth

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Jesse Friedman

This article was originally published on the BruteProtect blog. BruteProtect was a plugin designed to stop malicious IPs from accessing WordPress websites. The technology behind BruteProtect is now part of Jetpack’s security features, protecting millions of website from brute force attacks every day.

Thanks for all the feedback and shares on Part 1, see that post for more info on which modules in Jetpack are activated by default and which “Other” plugins we used to test against.

There have been a number of requests for us to show what WordPress core (with no plugins) and Jetpack activated but all modules deactivated looks like, so here we go.

Note that all of the numbers have changed a bit because we re-ran all tests from scratch with an updated version of WebPageTest.

	Other Plugins	Jetpack (with default modules)	Jetpack (with no modules)	WordPress Core, no plugins
First load, TTFB	1103ms	569ms	470ms	408ms
First load, Fully loaded	2742ms	1970ms	1756ms	1620ms

Jetpack vs. WordPress Core without Plugins

About our testing methodology:
Tests were run from a private instance of WebPageTest, run from an EC2 instance within 1ms of our test subject server. Each test was run 27 times, and we used the median score for each factor. The test server had no other traffic on it while these tests were being performed.

Still have questions about the Jetpack plugin? Contact support or search documentation for quick answers.

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