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Jetpack is the ultimate toolkit for WordPress. It gives you everything you need to secure, design, and grow your site in one bundle. With Jetpack, you can: - Get a safer, stronger site via secure logins and protection from brute…
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Jetpack’s Reputation and History

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Dan Knauss
What's your current take on Jetpack? It seems to me that complaints about bloat and too much going on in one plugin started to disappear several years ago. The idea it was a "Trojan Horse" designed to get users into…

Jetpack is ten years old. 🎂…

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Dan Knauss

Jetpack is ten years old. 🎂 There's a birthday celebration site you can check out for "an interactive exploration of how Jetpack has helped WordPress sites over the last 10 years."

The debut of Jetpack CRM was…

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Brian Krogsgard

The debut of Jetpack CRM was announced at the Jetpack blog. It's a "new customer relationship management tool built specifically for WordPress sites." Jetpack CRM is a standalone plugin -- not bundled with Jetpack -- and has separate pricing starting…

Jetpack has added site scanning to…

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Dan Knauss

Jetpack has added site scanning to its repertoire of paid services. For $7 per month, this adds to Jetpack's backups product as a service-oriented paid feature from Jetpack. I'm keenly watching to see where else Jetpack will go as they…

JetPack has announced that its search…

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Dan Knauss

JetPack has announced that its search service is available as a separately priced package. It was only available in the past as part of the Jetpack Professional plan at $29 per month. Pricing for Jetpack Search depends on how many…

Jetpack promotions in search, and fallout

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Brian Krogsgard
In the last newsletter, I mentioned Jetpack's search replacement for promotions as well as the discussion and fallout that followed. It escalated quite a bit, and then it got out of hand. Jetpack has now removed the feature in version…

Jetpack introduced a new Activity feature that…

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Dan Knauss

Jetpack introduced a new Activity feature that monitors your site and adds a new tab in WordPress.com where you can see all your site’s activity outlined in an "organized, readable way." How far back you can look or how many features…

Jetpack has included Elasticsearch support in…

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Brian Krogsgard

Jetpack has included Elasticsearch support in their "professional" plan now. It's in beta for now, but I anticipate we'll see them expand on this functionality. I think it could be a good trigger for some folks to upgrade.

Jetpack 5.0 was released as a “spring cleaning”…

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Brian Krogsgard

Jetpack 5.0 was released as a "spring cleaning" with a focus on stability and compatibility. You'll want to update for cleaner code, faster execution, and a few bug fixes for PHP 7.1 that were causing some fatal errors.
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