An Introduction to Jetpack
Michele Butcher
http://michelebutcher.com
http://cantspeakgeek.com
@michele_butcher
http://www.slideshare.net/michelebutcher/introduction-to-jetpack-wordcamp-chicago-2014

A 20 second bio of who
this girl up here talking is…

With over 10 million downloads,
Jetpack is one of the most used
WordPress plugins in the world.

In the beginning…

What does Jetpack have to
offer me?

A whole lot of AWESOME
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in a tiny living space!

Installing Jetpack
1. Download via Plugin Repository
2. Activate
3. Sign in with your WordPress.com account
4. You are ready to go!

First, go into the “Install Plugins”
page on your dashboard
In the search box type in “Jetpack”
and click “Search Plugins”

The top choice will be the Jetpack that you want.
Click “Install Now” to download Jetpack to your
WordPress site.

This is what you will see once the
plugin has been installed
Click “Activate Plugin” to turn it on in your dashboard

Now you have to connect Jetpack to your
WordPress.com account
Click on the “Connect to WordPress.com
to proceed”

This is where you use you
WordPress.com login.
If you do not have a login you can click on
“Need and account?” Sign up is free and takes
about 5 seconds.

Now you are ready to rock Jetpack!

There are three types of
people that Jetpack was
designed for.
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1. Users
2. Readers
3. Developers

For those awesome
WordPress users…

Get your site attention and love with
social media by using
Publicize and Sharing

Share with the most popular
social media platforms!

Security
Within
Your
Site

Monitor will email you as soon as your site
goes down.
Know instantly for minimal downtime.
Get emails delivered when your site goes
down and how long it was down.

VaultPress: Jetpack’s backup and security
feature. It is a paid feature that will secure your
site in real time to make sure you have no
unwanted visitors.

Not a fan of the WordPress mobile app
but want to post on the go?
Then post by email could be your answer!
Jetpack sets up each user their own
email address to send the posts to.
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Add your HTML to the email your
your special bling

For the media fans, Jetpack has a few
somethin’ somethin’
Carousel will take your pictures and
showcase them in a rocking full page
experience.

Plus tiled galleries gives you more options for
displaying your fantastic photos
Tiles
Circle
Square

VideoPress, one of two paid Jetpack
features, is one of the easiest ways to
upload and edit videos to add to
your WordPress site.

• Unlimited video length for videos up to 1GB
• Unlimited bandwidth for streaming videos
• Share and embed VideoPress videos anywhere on the
internet
• Videos inherit your blogs privacy settings for strict privacy
control
• VideoPress supports MP4 (.mp4,m4v) QuickTime movies
(.mov)Windows Media Video (.wmv), Audio Video
Interleave (.avi), MPEG (.mpg), Ogg (.ogv), 3GPP, (.3gp),
and 3GPP2 (.3g2)
Benefits Include

Hey grammar nazis everywhere!
Jetpack has this cool little thing where they will
check your spelling and grammar for you. It just
does it!
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If only it could be everywhere…..Think of the
possibilities!!!

Site Verification Tools
NEW NEW
Verify your site with Google, Bing, and Pinterest.
Get noticed faster!

Sing with me…
“This is the site that doesn't end.
Yes it goes on and on my friends…
When used, and applicable to your theme,
Infinite Scroll will make your site seem like it
never ends. It will show all of your posts on the
one page.
Disclaimer: The theme author must integrate this into
the theme for this feature to work

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Do you hate logging in to each and every one, each
and every time?
Single Sign On is the key to solve all of
those pesky login problems.
Have multiple WordPress sites?

Want to know more about that
person who commented on your post?
Gravatar hovercards will show the Gravatar bio
information when you hover the curser over a
Gravatar image.

Sometimes the need arises that one needs to
search their WordPress back end to find something.
Yeah it happens to the best of us.
Insert Omnisearch
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Jetpacks handy dandy search option. It will search
posts, pages, comments, media, and plugins.

Enhanced distribution allows your blog’s public
content to be included in the WordPress.com
firehose.
Enhanced Distribution

Want your site to move
at warp speed?
Photon is an image acceleration and editing
service for sites hosted on WordPress.com or
on Jetpack-connected WordPress sites. That
means less load on your host and faster images
for your readers.
Just click “Activate” and done!

Widgets widgets
everywhere!
Widgets give more options to put all kinds of
coolness on your site. Jetpack gives you the
option to pick what widgets you want on certain
pages and gives you more widgets to pick from.

Jetpack extra sidebar widgets gives you:
Facebook Like Box
Top 10 Most Recent Posts
Twitter Timeline
Add an image
Show your Gravatar
Gallery Display
Readmill

Google+ Profile
You can connect your WordPress site to your
Google+ account.Show your Google+ profile link
at the bottom of your posts and let your readers
use their Google+ profile to add comments to
your posts. You can share to Google+, embed
Google content, and add your latest posts on
your Google+ profiles and pages.

The people who do math
The Beautiful Math Feature complex mathematical
equations rock on your site.

WordPress.com Stats
Who reads us?
How many visited today, last week, last year?
How many pages were visited?
Where did they visit from?
What are they reading?
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Those questions and more answered here!

Visitors
http://michelebutcher.com
Top Posts and Pages Viewed

For the readers
you all know you want…

Want people to leave snazzy comments on your site?
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No need for a separate plugin
Jetpack has that covered!
This is the Jetpack enabled Comments on
http://michelebutcher.com
Also commenters can use their using Twitter,
Facebook, Google+, and WordPress.com accounts.

Jetpack subscriptions give readers the
ability to get your new posts delivered
directly to their inbox.

Just like Facebook, people can
“Like” your posts through their
WordPress.com
account.

Give those readers more posts
to read by using Related Posts
Snazzy little links can appear anywhere
within and/or under your posts to direct
readers to related posts that you have
made.
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It is awesome! You should try it!

WordPress Security for
Beginners 101 states you
should never ever never put
your email address on your
website. Never. So how do
your readers contact you?

A contact form!
Contact forms give
readers
a way to contact
you
and they are fully
customizable!

Sometimes your URL is just
too long…
WP.me Shortlinks automatically
gives your posts a short
link for posting to social media
sites.

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Turn this URL:
http://michelebutcher.com/joining-wp-security-lock/
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Into:
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http://wp.me/p1WOmP-4B

And forbid your site theme is not responsive,
Jetpack can help!
Jetpack Mobile Theme automatically
optimizes your site for mobile
devices.
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But I am sure you are already
using a responsive theme right?

Last but never least,
those fantastic
developer types…

JSON API
Allow applications to securely access
your content through the cloud

Custom CSS
The custom CSS Editor allows
customization to the appearance of your
theme without the need to create a child
theme or worry about theme updates
overwriting your customizations.

Jetpack now features
Markdown
A more relatively new feature, you now can
write in Markdown and publish in XHTML

An added bonus for
developers…
Jetpack has hundreds of filters and
hooks within the database that can be
modified and tweaked to your own
specifications.

A prime example is how you can customize the
related posts features.

Shortcodes
can
make
life so
much
easier!

• [ blip.tv ] embeds a Blip.tv video. » Full instructions
• [ dailymotion ] embeds a DailyMotion video. » Full
instructions
• [ flickr ] embeds a Flickr video. » Full instructions
• [ ted ] embeds a TED talk. » Full instructions
• [ vimeo ] embeds a Vimeo video. » Full instructions
• [ vine ] embeds a Vine video. » Full instructions
• [ youtube ] embeds a YouTube video. » Full instructions
Video Shortcodes

Audio Shortcodes
• [ audio ] displays uploaded audio file as an
audio player. Jetpack now uses the shortcode
parameters in WordPress Core.
• [ soundcloud ] embeds audio from SoundCloud.
» Full instructions
• [ bandcamp ] embeds audio from Bandcamp. »
Full instructions

Images and Documents
Shortcodes
• [ presentation ] allows you to display a slide
presentation on your site. » Full instructions
• [ scribd ] embeds a document/file from Scribd. »
Full instructions
• [ slideshare ] embeds a slideshow from
Slideshare.net. » Full instructions
• [ gallery type="slideshow" ] allows you to create a
slideshow by using the built-in WordPress galleries.
» Full instructions
• You can also use Jetpack to embed Google Docs.
» Full instructions

Miscellaneous Shortcodes
Shortcodes for adding a blog archive index, contact form, polls, and
more.
• [ archives ] displays an archive index of your blog posts. » Full
instructions
• [ digg ] displays a Digg sharing button.
• [ googlemaps ] embeds Google Maps. » Full instructions
• [ facebook ] embeds Facebook posts. » Full instructions
• [ polldaddy ] embeds a PollDaddy poll. » Full instructions
• [ twitter-timeline ] embeds a Twitter Timeline Widget. » Full
instructions
Module-Dependent Shortcode
This shortcode only works when the corresponding module is
enabled.
• [ jetpack_subscription_form ] displays a subscription form
anywhere in your site. Works with the Subscription Module. » Full
instructions

Questions???

Thank you! You all have
been great!
Twitter: @michele_butcher
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Slide deck can be found at:
http://www.slideshare.net/michelebutcher/introduction-to-
jetpack-wordcamp-chicago-2014