jetpack Archives | CSS-Tricks

Sponsored Article September 17, 2019

An Updated List of Our Favorite Jetpack Features for WordPress

It's hard to articulate every reason to use Jetpack for your WordPress site. It's taken us a series of posts to unpack it because it's capable of doing so gosh darn much — a lof of which we put to use right here on CSS-Tricks.

The thing is that Jetpack is very much an active project and keeps improving with each and every release. While we've covered many Jetpack features and uses over the years, it's worth revisiting here … Read article

jetpack

Get Peak WordPress Performance with Jetpack

The irony of web performance is that the average page weight of a site continues to go up year after year, despite us being more aware of the problem and having more tools at our disposal to fight it than ever.

To paraphrase Seinfeld, "we know how to fight page weight issues; we just don't use the tools we have to fight page weight issues."… Read article

Using Jetpack to Accelerate WordPress Development

[Geoff:] I've built a fair number of WordPress sites in my day. It's been my go-to since the 2.x-ish days because it works for any site, big or small. That's the sort of solution and flexibility you like to have as a freelancer.

Boy, I wish I had Jetpack available in those early days.

Like WordPress itself, Jetpack is a good solution for many, many of the types of things clients are looking for from a WordPress site. I used … Read article

Our Notes / Read at jetpack.com

jetpack

Jetpack Gutenberg Blocks

I remember when Gutenberg was released into core, because I was at WordCamp US that day. A number of months have gone by now, so I imagine more and more of us on WordPress sites have dipped our toes into it. I just wrote about our first foray here on CSS-Tricks and using Gutenberg to power our newsletter.

Jetpack, of course, was ahead of the game. Jetpack adds a bunch of special, powerful blocks to Gutenberg that it's easy … Read article

gutenberg jetpack

Article March 28, 2019

A Gutenburg-Powered Newsletter

Author

Chris Coyier

3 Comments

Go to Comments

I like Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor. I'm not oblivious to all the conversation around accessibility, UX, and readiness, but I know how hard it is to ship software and I'm glad WordPress got it out the door. Now it can evolve for the better.

I see a lot of benefit to block-based editors. Some of my favorite editors that I use every day, Notion and Dropbox Paper, are block-based in their own ways and I find it effective. In … Read article

Email gutenberg jetpack newsletter WordPress

Jetpack

My favorite way to think about Jetpack is that it's a WordPress plugin that brings a whole heap of features to your site. I've documented the features that we use here on CSS-Tricks, which isn't even all of them (yet).

Some of Jetpack features are essentially connecting it to the powers of WordPress.com. For example, of course, WordPress.com has some amazing way to optimize and serve images. They can build a service that millions of sites on WordPress.com can benefit … Read article

jetpack

Video December 5, 2018

#167: Sponsored Videos for Jetpack and WooCommerce

Author

Chris Coyier

Comments

Go to Comments

This is a compilation of four videos I've done over the last few months for a sponsorship with Automattic. It's mostly about Jetpack, a WordPress plugin I quite like and that we use here at CSS-Tricks), but also touches on setting up WooCommerce to create a personal store.… Read article

jetpack woocommerce WordPress

Article September 11, 2018

Jetpack’s Social Integration Features

Author

Chris Coyier

1 Comment

Go to Comments

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.… Read article

jetpack WordPress

September 5, 2018

Jetpack

Author

Chris Coyier

Comments

Go to Comments

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

jetpack WordPress

Fast, Good, Local Site Search with Jetpack

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 … Read article

jetpack search