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Jetpack’s Social Integration Features

# September 11, 2018 By Chris Coyier

One of the many things we use Jetpack for here on CSS-Tricks is all of its features related to social media integration. For example, Jetpack can automatically share published content to different social media accounts simultaneously, add sharing buttons to your site's theme, and allow for social login on the comment form. There is even more than that, but let's dig into these three as we use them.

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# September 5, 2018 By Chris Coyier

A landing page that explains how we use and like the WordPress plugin Jetpack around here.

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Fast, Good, Local Site Search with Jetpack

# July 12, 2018 Sponsored

If you have, say, 20 posts/pages on your WordPress site, the search functionality that is baked right into your self-hosted WordPress site will probably do a great job. Search is a pretty cool feature to ship with WordPress, truth be told. But as a site grows, you'll find limits. How it works behind the scenes is a touch over my head, but as I understand it, it does a MySQL LIKE query on your post titles and post content. It tries its best to order by relevance (like if it finds an exact sentence match), then largely orders by date.

If search is super important to your site (here on CSS-Tricks, on-site search gets used a ton) you'll probably look for other options.

TLDR: Jetpack Search is quite good out of the box, customizable, and requires very little effort.

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The Four Big Ways Jetpack Helps with Image Performance

# June 19, 2018 Sponsored

We've been working with Jetpack around here as a sponsor. It's a great match because as someone with a bunch of self-hosted WordPress sites, Jetpack is one of those no-brainer plugins for me. Jetpack can do a ton of good things for any site in a variety of very different ways. Here's one way to think about it: it brings the power of WordPress' own massive servers to you.

For now, let's just focus on one angle of what Jetpack can do for you: image performance. Jetpack does a ton for you in this regard, solving some non-trivial performance upgrades. Let's take a look at what I see as the four big boosts you get from Jetpack on your images.

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#161: Jetpack

# June 14, 2018 By Chris Coyier

Jetpack sponsored this video, which goes into what Jetpack is and can do for your site.

These are my words though! I'm a big Jetpack fan and I run Jetpack on all my self-hosted WordPress sites. It does a ton both feature-wise and performance-wise.

In this video, we look at a WordPress site I recently spun up where Jetpack was essentially the first plugin I installed. (more…)

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Five of My Favorite Features of Jetpack

# May 15, 2018 Sponsored

Jetpack is an official WordPress plugin directly from Automattic. It's an interesting plugin in that it doesn't just do *one thing* — it does a whole slew of things that enhance what your WordPress site can do. *Any* WordPress site, that is, and often with extremely little effort. Those easy win features Jesse Friedman calls light switch features, meaning you literally flip a switch in Jetpack's settings and start benefitting. I love that.

There are dozens of features in Jetpack, and I personally make use of most of them and see the benefit in all of them. Allow me to share with you five of my favorites and how they are actively used right here on this site. It's actually a bit hard to pick, so perhaps I'll do this again sometime!

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Plugins Loaded

# March 25, 2017 By Chris Coyier

A huge high-five to John James Jacoby for his help here on CSS-Tricks fixing up our Markdown + bbPress integration. John runs Plugins Loaded, a source of high-quality WordPress plugins that you can use for free, or choose to pay to support.

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