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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…

iThemes adding live, incremental backups to BackupBuddy

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessHosting
iThemes has managed and supported BackupBuddy for about as long as any commercial plugin on the market. It's a cornerstone product for them, and it's done very well over the years. With BackupBuddy 7.0, they are adding live, incremental backups…

Automattic has a product called WordAds…

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Automattic has a product called WordAds that, until now, was only available to bloggers on WordPress.com. Now it's available to Jetpack enabled websites using the new AdControl plugin. If you have a site with at least 1,000 views per month…

The WordPress swag store, finally revamped

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Brian Krogsgard

The WordPress swag store -- or more accurately perhaps, the Automattic swag store with WordPress stuff in it -- has finally been revamped, and now runs WooCommerce. Now under the domain mercantile.wordpress.org, the new store looks nice, and has some new…

WordPress.com has a new post editor,…

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WordPress.com has a new post editor, that you can also use if you have a Jetpack enabled WordPress site. Apparently it's really fast. Improvements like these are important for their platform, and it seems well received in the comments.

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…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

Weekend edition

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Friday was a bit slow so I figured I'd wait for a weekend edition. We're going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to…

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…

Obox’s DevKit allows for CSS and JS editing on the fly

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Brian Krogsgard

Obox recently released DevKit as a CSS and Javascript add-on for any theme. What they've released as DevKit on CodeCanyon is what has been powering the user-added code features for their builder theme, Layers. Layers was released early this year with a lot of good…

Quick tip: Disconnect Jetpack from the WordPress.com side

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Brian Krogsgard
Planet
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.
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