Carolyn Sonnek Jetpack Pyromancer @carolynsonnek Jetpack All The Things

• Achieve Feature Parity with WordPress.com • Contact Forms • Widget Visibility • Sharing Links • + more! Our Continuing Mission

Our Continuing Mission • Leverage the WordPress.com Cloud Servers • Related Posts • Photon • Publicize • + more!

• Customize the look of your site • Help you write great content • Grow and engage your audience • Help manage the security and updating of your site • Help your site run more efficiently • And more! What can Jetpack do for you?

• Custom CSS • Contact Form • Sidebar Widgets • Widget Visibility Customize Your Site

Custom CSS makes it easy to craft changes to your theme without needing a child theme. Custom CSS

• Eliminates the need to setup child themes to customize a theme and theme updates won’t overwrite your work! • Changes are stored in your database as a Custom Post Type; you can always step back to an earlier revision if you make a mistake. • Supports both Sass and Less preprocessors. Custom CSS

• A simple drop-in form editor. • Customize your fields • Form submissions are both emailed and saved locally and can be exported to CSV. • Automagically filtered for spam (if you’re also using Akismet) Contact Form

• Sidebar Widgets: Gravatar Profiles, Images, Galleries, Facebook Like Boxes, Twitter Timelines, RSS Feeds, and more. • Widget Visibility: lets you target specifically on which pages your widgets will display. Sidebar Widgets + Visibility

• Markdown • Spelling and Grammar Check • Shortcode Embeds • Carousel • Tiled Galleries • Beautiful Math (LaTeX) Produce Great Content

• Markdown is a shorthand for writing rich text (bold, italic, bullet points, hyperlinks) in plain text. • It helps with 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

• Easy in-browser spelling and grammar checking. • No automated tool will be as good as an actual proofreader, but we catch what we can. Spelling + Grammar

• A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. • Shortcode = shortcut. • Jetpack Shortcodes add in some special shortcodes that were only available on WordPress.com • [twitchtv] [googlemaps] [instagram] [recipe] [bandcamp] [slideshare] [untapped-menu] and more! Shortcode Embeds

• When displaying your galleries, why not display the individual images in a stylish lightbox?
 • You can also show a bit more information about your camera as well and other EXIF data. Carousel

• A beautiful way to automatically crop and resize your images to present a cohesive whole. • Captions will slide into view as you hover over each image. • It just works. Tiled Galleries

• LaTeX enables the creation of complex math and scientific 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)

• Publicize • Sharing Links • Comments Growth + Engagement • Likes • Subscriptions • Related Posts

• Publicize makes it easy for you to alert your connected social media networks when you publish a new post. • You can easily manage one or more account per network and allow your account to be used site-wide or just for your personal user account. • Choose on a per-post basis if you want to send the notice out and customize the message before it’s sent out. Publicize

• 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

• Sharing makes it easy for your 
 readers and visitors to share 
 your content. • This gives you the reach to your followers followers - helping you grow your audience. • You can customize which networks you’d like to use with an easy drag-and-drop interface, including how it looks! Sharing Links

• Drop-in comment form replacement • Works with all themes • Own your own content • Use popular social networks: • WordPress.com • Facebook • Twitter • Google+ Comments

• Likes are a super-easy way to let folks acknowledge your content, without having to think of something witty to say. • It’s easy, it’s fun, and it increases engagement. • Requires a WordPress.com user account. Likes

• With Subscriptions, you can make it easier for your 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

• WordPress.com Secure Sign On (SSO) • Jetpack Manage • Jetpack Monitor • Jetpack Protect Security + Stability

• WordPress.com Secure Sign On enables users to log into their accounts with their linked WordPress.com account. • All authentication requests using SSO are HTTPS. This is secure even if you don’t have an SSL certificate for your site or if your connecting over public wifi. • Plus, WordPress.com user accounts support two-factor authentication. WordPress.com SSO

• From a single WordPress.com dashboard, you can create and manage your content and plugins for one or many sites. • Manage plugins by showing when they’re out of date, update them with a single click, or even set them to autoupdate. • Write new blog posts, upload media, and publish all from this single interface. • Working on more improvements! Jetpack Manage

• Uptime and reliability matters. • Knowing when 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. Jetpack Monitor

• Protect yourself against traditional brute force attacks and distributed brute force attacks that use many servers against your site. • Stop hackers before their first login attempt. • A math captcha is used as a fallback for the protect feature just in case you’ve entered the wrong password too many times. Jetpack Protect

• Stats by WordPress.com • Photon Image CDN • Related Posts Performance

• Stats are hard to do locally. • Google Analytics and others: don’t necessarily understand your content on the back-end - only the URLs being viewed. • WordPress.com Stats understands your content and how it’s displayed • Easy access: Dashboard, WordPress.com, and the WordPress mobile apps. Also access through the WordPress.com API! Stats by WordPress.com

• Photon is an Image CDN offered for free to Jetpack sites. • It can take the load off of serving images off your servers, so your site loads more quickly. • Photon uses geographically dispersed servers that can server your content quickly and efficiently. • No database changes to content — easy and safe to toggle on and off. Photon

• Related Posts uses the WordPress.com Cloud to find related posts. • Indexes based on post content, title, categories, and tags. • Doesn’t need to be a featured image — external images (Flickr, for example) can be used as well. Related Posts

• Jetpack is also on GitHub for bug reports and feature requests. • More than twenty developers and designers working on the Jetpack plugin and related code, plus more pitching in regularly. • Twenty-six Happiness Engineers supporting users across WordPress.org plugin support forums, email support, and social media channels. One More Thing

Questions?

Thanks! Carolyn Sonnek @carolynsonnek