introduction to jetpack- wordcamp chicago 2014
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This was the Introduction to Jetpack presentation done by Michele Butcher at the WordCamp Chicago June 13, 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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An Introduction to Jetpack
Michele Butcher http://michelebutcher.com http://cantspeakgeek.com
@michele_butcherhttp://www.slideshare.net/michelebutcher/introduction-to-jetpack-wordcamp-chicago-2014
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A 20 second bio of who this girl up here talking is…
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With over 10 million downloads, Jetpack is one of the most used WordPress plugins in the world.
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In the beginning…
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What does Jetpack have to offer me?
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A whole lot of AWESOME !
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in a tiny living space!
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Installing Jetpack
1. Download via Plugin Repository
2. Activate
3. Sign in with your WordPress.com account
4. You are ready to go!
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First, go into the “Install Plugins” page on your dashboard
In the search box type in “Jetpack” and click “Search Plugins”
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The top choice will be the Jetpack that you want.
Click “Install Now” to download Jetpack to your WordPress site.
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This is what you will see once the plugin has been installed
Click “Activate Plugin” to turn it on in your dashboard
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Now you have to connect Jetpack to your WordPress.com account
Click on the “Connect to WordPress.com to proceed”
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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.
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Now you are ready to rock Jetpack!
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There are three types of people that Jetpack was
designed for. !
1. Users 2. Readers 3. Developers
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For those awesome WordPress users…
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Get your site attention and love with social media by using Publicize and Sharing
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Share with the most popular social media platforms!
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Security Within Your Site
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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.
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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.
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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
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For the media fans, Jetpack has a few somethin’ somethin’
Carousel will take your pictures and showcase them in a rocking full page
experience.
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Plus tiled galleries gives you more options for displaying your fantastic photos
Tiles
Circle
Square
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VideoPress, one of two paid Jetpack features, is one of the easiest ways to
upload and edit videos to add to your WordPress site.
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• 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
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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!!!
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Site Verification ToolsNEW NEWVerify your site with Google, Bing, and Pinterest.
Get noticed faster!
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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?
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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.
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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 !
Jetpacks handy dandy search option. It will search posts, pages, comments, media, and plugins.
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Enhanced distribution allows your blog’s public content to be included in the WordPress.com
firehose.
Enhanced Distribution
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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The people who do math
The Beautiful Math Feature complex mathematical equations rock on your site.
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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!
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Visitors
http://michelebutcher.com
Top Posts and Pages Viewed
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For the readers you all know you want…
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Want people to leave snazzy comments on your site? !
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.
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Jetpack subscriptions give readers the ability to get your new posts delivered directly to their inbox.
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Just like Facebook, people can “Like” your posts through their
WordPress.com account.
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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. !
It is awesome! You should try it!
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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?
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A contact form!
Contact forms give readers
a way to contact you
and they are fully customizable!
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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: !
http://wp.me/p1WOmP-4B
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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?
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Last but never least, those fantastic
developer types…
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JSON API
Allow applications to securely access your content through the cloud
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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.
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Jetpack now features Markdown
A more relatively new feature, you now can write in Markdown and publish in XHTML
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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.
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A prime example is how you can customize the related posts features.
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Shortcodes can
make life so much
easier!
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• [ 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
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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
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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
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Miscellaneous ShortcodesShortcodes 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
instructionsModule-Dependent ShortcodeThis 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
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Questions???
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Thank you! You all have been great!
Twitter: @michele_butcher !
http://michelebutcher.com http://wpsecuritylock.com !
http://industrialwp.com http://safewp.com !
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