of needless child themes is a big win. Also, if you’re already running a child theme, you can still use Custom CSS — whereas you wouldn’t be able to create a grandchild theme. • Changes are stored in your database as a Custom Post Type — you can always step back if you make a mistake. • Supports both Sass and Less preprocessors. Custom CSS
generate leads. • Form submissions are both emailed and saved locally — if you’d like to export them all as a CSV or the like! • Automagically filtered for spam (if you’re also using Akismet) Contact Form
ship on WordPress.com — displaying Gravatar Profiles, Images, Galleries, Facebook Like Boxes, Twitter Timelines, RSS Feeds, and more. • Widget Visibility lets you target specifically which pages your widgets will display on. You can add a Contact Form to only single-post pages, while omitting it on Archive pages. Or add a gallery only to your homepage. Sidebar Widgets + Visibility
your site. • Dozens of custom shortcodes to control the output and options of the generated post. • Great for building easy integrations with third-party systems. Post by Email
italic, bullet points, hyperlinks) in plain text. • It makes for rapid content creation, without needing to regularly swap to the formatting bar or explicitly writing HTML markup. • It’s also perfectly readable unprocessed when displayed as Markdown. Markdown
formulas. • (Yes, this is very niche) • $latex i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\left|\Psi(t) \right>=H\left|\Psi(t)\right>$ • Becomes… Beautiful Math (LaTeX)
do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can safely embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. • Shortcode = shortcut. • Jetpack Shortcodes add in some special shortcodes that are available on WordPress.com • [archives] [googlemaps] [twitter-timeline] [scribd] [bandcamp] [slideshare] [presentation] and more! Shortcode Embeds
notifications on social media when you publish a post. • You can easily manage one or more account per network, and choose on a per-post basis where you’d like to send it — even customizing the message in the process. • It’s a pretty awesome way to automate your workflow and make sure your content gets out in front of the eyes of as many of your followers as possible. • Supports Facebook, Twitter, Path, Tumblr, Google+, and LinkedIn. Publicize
you), make it easy for your users to share your content. • This lets your content foster new connections between users, and take on a new life as they pass it around. • You can customize which networks you’d like to support with an easy drag-and-drop interface, and even how you’d like each button to display. Sharing Links
visitors to keep coming back. • They can subscribe either via the WordPress.com reader, or via email notifications! • It helps to keep your content in front of the people that already care about what you have to say. Subscriptions
their accounts with their linked WordPress.com account. • This can be more secure, especially if they are connecting over public wifi! • All authentication requests through WP.com are HTTPS — secure! If you don’t have an SSL certificate for your site and route all your requests through HTTPS, logging in users could have their information stolen! • Plus we support two-factor authentication. :) WordPress.com Single Sign On
and infrastructure across all of your sites. • Keep your assorted plugins up to date? • Write new blog posts? • Do it all via a secure connection on WordPress.com servers? • We’ve got your back. Manage your site
is experiencing problems is the first step to fixing them. • Monitor checks in with your site every five minutes. • If it ever finds a problem, it checks from two other geographic locations, and if it’s still down, it lets you know. • Thanks, Good Guy Monitor! Monitor your uptime
a tremendous load to your MySQL database and slow down your site. • Google Analytics and other existing the space, but don’t necessarily understand your content on the back-end — only the URLs being viewed. If your permalink structure changes, stats get affected! • WordPress.com Stats understands your content, and how it’s displayed. It can track views of single posts as they’re displayed on Archive pages. • We like to make sure you have full access to your data — YOUR stats! So you can get stats information through the WordPress Mobile Apps, and even data dumps so that you can play around and build something awesome with your own data! Stats by WordPress.com
Jetpack sites. • It can take the load off of your servers, so that they can better focus on what they’re best at — serving WordPress pages! • In our testing, simply enabling Photon can double the number of concurrent users that your site can support under load. • And our geographically dispersed CDN can make sure your users get the content quickly and efficiently. • No database changes to content — easy and safe to toggle on and off. Photon Image CDN
to find related posts. • Bane of self-hosted blogs! • Indexes based on post content, title, categories, tags. • Doesn’t need to be a featured image — external images (Flickr, for example) can be used as well. Related Posts with Elasticsearch
isn’t enough. • We have a group of 15+ Automatticians working on the Jetpack plugin and related code, plus more pitching in regularly. • We also have a terrific support crew of 9 (currently) Happiness Engineers that fully supports users across WordPress.org plugin support forums, email support, and social media channels. One more thing…
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