What can Jetpack do for you?
The WordPress Jetpack Plugin is a toolbox of plugins to help improve your WordPress site, developed by the same people that brought you WordPress, Automattic. Some of the features are free, whilst the Personal ($39/year), Premium ($99/year) & Professional ($299/year) editions will give you additional features.
Free Features
- Notifications – Sends you instant notifications of site comments and likes
- JSON API – Allow applications to securely access your content
- *Site Stats – Monitors traffic to your site and gives you statistics to help you get insight into your site
- *Sharing – Social buttons on your posts so readers can share your content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, and WhatsApp
- *Publicize – Makes it easy to share your site’s posts on several social media networks automatically when you publish a new post
- *Related Posts – Offload the complex processing of finding related posts to their servers
- *Comments – Allow comments with WordPress.com, Twitter, Facebook, or Google+
- *Likes – Give visitors an easy way to show they appreciate your content on WordPress.com
- *Subscriptions – Notify your readers of new posts and comments by email
- Gravatar Hovercards – Enable pop-up business cards over commenters’ Gravatars
- Sitemaps – Make it easy for search engines to find your site
- Enhanced Distribution – Increase reach and traffic
- *Site Verification – Establish your site’s authenticity with external services
- *Protect/BruteProtect – Brute force attack protection from malicious login attempts
- Monitor – Downtime and uptime monitoring
- Akismet – State-of-the-art spam defence, a paid version has more features
- *Single Sign On – Secure user and two-factor authentication with WordPress.com
- *Tiled Galleries – Display image galleries in a variety of elegant arrangements
- Photon – A high-speed image CDN for your images, offload your images to their servers so that your site loads faster
- *Carousel – Display images and galleries in a gorgeous, full-screen browsing experience
- *Extra Sidebar Widgets – Sidebar customization including Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds. Including blog stats, calendar, and author widgets
- Widget Visibility – Control where widgets appear on your site
- *Custom CSS – Tweak your site’s CSS without modifying your theme
- *Infinite Scroll – Automatically load new content when a visitor scrolls
- Mobile Theme – Optimise your site for smartphones and tablets
- WP.me Shortlinks – Create short and simple links for all posts and pages
- Shortcode Embeds – Embed media from popular sites without any coding
- Contact Form – Fully-customizable contact forms
- *Spelling and Grammar – Check your spelling, style, and grammar
- Markdown – Write posts or pages in plain-text Markdown syntax
- Post by Email – Publish posts by sending an email
- Beautiful Math – Use LaTeX markup for complex equations and other geekery
- *Custom Content Types – Organise and display different types of content on your site. Enable Portfolio or Testimonials
*Has configurable options on site
Paid Features
- SEO Tools – Search engine optimization tools for Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, and WordPress.com
- Ads – Advertising program that includes the best of AdSense, Facebook Ads, AOL, Amazon, Google AdX, and Yahoo
- Google Analytics – Set up Google Analytics without touching a line of code.
- Security Scanning – Malware scanning, code scanning, and threat resolution
- Site Backups/VaultPress – Site backups, restores, and migrations
- VideoPress – High-speed, ad-free, and high-definition video hosting