After the hubub around Jetpack’s decision…

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Brian Krogsgard

After the hubub around Jetpack's decision to become a theme marketplace, Mika Epstein clarified what constitutes an allowed versus not-allowed third party integration for executable code. Not to any fault of Mika or the rest of the plugin team, it…

If you are a Jetpack customer…

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Dan Knauss

If you are a Jetpack customer with a recently released Personal Plan, note that Jetpack has announced that they are now including "Priority Support" in such Personal Plans. Priority support simply mean you’ll get your tickets responded to faster, but…

Alex Denning writes about Jetpack modules…

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Dan Knauss
Alex Denning writes about Jetpack modules that you might have missed. As Alex points out in the post and in this comment on Twitter that the "role Jetpack plays in reducing abandonment rates from new installs" is notable.

Jetpack 4.3 to include React-based settings, further integrated marketing

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Brian Krogsgard

Jetpack 4.3 Beta was announced today, and includes a new React-driven interface, as well as more integrated marketing pitches for the WordPress.com apps and paid upgrades. The new interface is an improvement, but there are several changes functionally. One I noticed…

Jetpack is testing direct email marketing for Automattic products

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Brian Krogsgard

Automattic is testing email marketing to WordPress.com users who have accounts linked to Jetpack, in order to market Automattic products like VaultPress and Akismet. It's the first time I've seen them make use of the WordPress.com <-> Jetpack connection; previously the…

Wrangling Jetpack related posts

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Brian Krogsgard

I don't offer much code to members, but I have long struggled with wrangling Jetpack's related posts, so I figured I'd share some code that I used to finally do so today. By default, you know what Jetpack's related posts…

Jetpack now smartly supports development sites

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Brian Krogsgard

Heck yes! Finally, Jetpack has really nice support for identifying development websites. When Jetpack sees a URL change on your site, it prompts you to identify whether it's a new site, if your domain changed, or if it's a development…

Quick tip: Disconnect Jetpack from the WordPress.com side

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Brian Krogsgard
Before now, deleting Jetpack enabled sites from WordPress.com was pretty hard unless you were in the WordPress admin. Now you can finally do it from the WordPress.com side, which is nice when the site no longer exists.

Working with images on Jetpack related posts

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Brian Krogsgard

Jetpack's related posts module is very good at matching, using ElasticSearch and WordPress.com's servers. It's one of the more compelling features of Jetpack. But I've never been a big fan because when the post doesn't have an image, the resulting…

Inside Jetpack

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Brian Krogsgard
Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…
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