Jetpack is ten years old. π…
Jetpack is ten years old. π 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.”
Jetpack is ten years old. π 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.”
Salesforce Ventures has invested an incredible $300 million as the sole investor in Automattic’s Series D, their first raise since 2014. Total investment is now $491 million over 15 years.
Google launched AMP in a pretty big way. The video steals a line from Donald Trump by saying, “We want to make the web great again. It’s really as simple as that.” It’s actually a nice video despite that line, and Automattic’s Paul Maiorana plays a starring role: https://youtu.be/WrpkFROqR0Q Much has been shared about what…
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 7.2.1. Jesse Friedman said the following with the release: Similar to buying a new phone…
iThemes Sync has a decent amount of competition between ManageWP, Jetpack Manage, and others that offer site management services that allow you to manage and update themes, plugins, and WordPress core. But they’ve recently come out with a feature that is new and intriguing to me — a report generator to send to your clients…
Automattic has released a feature to create widgets to offer embed-able feeds for WordPress.com and Jetpack enabled blogs, so you can embed your blog anywhere. It looks just like a Twitter feed, but for a blog. From a technical standpoint, it seems pretty cool. Justin Shreve notes that it’s built using a REST API. But…
GoDaddy has ranked the most popular WordPress plugins and themes installed on theirΒ servers in 2017. The top three plugins were Yoast SEO, Jetpack and Ninja Forms. The most popular eCommerce plugin wasΒ WooCommerce, and MonsterInsights took the crown as the most popular analytics plugin. The top three most popular WordPress themes were Divi, Zerif, and Sydney.