What Is Jetpack? What to Know About the Jetpack WordPress Plugin

If you are looking for software to help edit posts or adjust images, set up how your website displays, or support web marketing tools built on WordPress, Jetpack is a choice you shouldn't pass up. It covers everything from marketing support to social media support and even website display. To find out what Jetpack is and how it helps your website, read on with us in this article.

What is Jetpack?

Jetpack is a plugin on wordpress and is one of the most widely used today. Unlike plugins that do just one thing, Jetpack is a collection of many smaller plugins. So just by installing Jetpack, your website gains a lot of new features.

In practice, quite a few people believe that installing Jetpack slows a website down, because it contains so many small plugins. In fact, Jetpack lets you turn off the functions you don't need.

Pros and cons of Jetpack

The analysis below will help you understand Jetpack's pros and cons better:

Advantages

• Compatible with WordPress: It is developed by the WordPress engineering team, so compatibility is very high. Users don't need to worry much about fixing errors or making adjustments.
• Versatile: With more than 40 different modules, Jetpack has all the functions a website needs, covering nearly every type of site, from e-commerce websites to blog-style websites.
• Saves effort: Install Jetpack and your website has all the basic functions it needs. This saves a lot more effort than installing many separate plugins.

Cons:

• Relatively hard to use: People new to marketing or website management will certainly run into difficulties with this plugin.
• Can slow the website down: Jetpack bundles many small features, and they often slow the website down. To fix this, you can switch off the Jetpack functions you don't need.

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Jetpack's main functions

As a multi-purpose plugin, Jetpack offers many useful features. Specifically:

• Writing: Used to manage a range of website features such as spell checking, editing, image management, authentication, category sorting, interface optimization and verification. The Writing tab also has modules for showing excerpts on the home page and publishing posts by email.
• Sharing: This tab collects the functions that help posts spread, such as adding share and like buttons to posts.
• Discussion: Google rates websites with high user interaction highly. That is why Jetpack includes a discussion function, which lets administrators add modules so visitors can comment, register, leave reviews and connect automatically to Gravatar.
• Security: To protect your website from attacks by competitors or hackers, Jetpack has a Security tab. With it you can block suspicious login activity and guard against web attacks by keeping them under control.
• Traffic: Traffic is always considered one of a website's key indicators. With this Jetpack tab you can choose modules that optimize how your site appears in search engines, and turn more visitors for the site by attaching related content to posts, verifying ownership, indexing and more.

Jetpack doesn't perform these functions directly. It has a series of small modules that carry out these tasks.

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Jetpack modules

As mentioned, Jetpack currently has more than 40 modules. To make them easier to understand, you can sort them into the following groups:

Social media support

• Publicize: automatically shares posts to the list of social media pages networks provided, such as Facebook, Zalo and Twitter.
• Sharing, comments: lets users comment on and share posts with their social media accounts.
• Contact Form: inserts a contact information box into the website
• Shortlinks: creates short links that make sharing on social networks easier.

SEO and marketing support

• • Site Stats: website traffic statistics
  • Sitemaps: helps generate an XML sitemap sitemaps to optimize the site for search engines
  • Ads: works like Google Adsense and lets you place ads on the website.

• • SEO tools: post optimization SEO-ready

• VideoPress: speeds up loading and saves resources for Hosting by storing the site's videos on WordPress.com servers.
• Google Analytics: an analytics tool Google Analytics that tracks conversions on e-commerce plugins.

Post editing support

• Spelling and Grammar: checks spelling and grammar in the posts on your website.
• Enhanced Distribution: shares and comments on posts to the WordPress.com Firehose in real time.
• Post by email: publishes posts to the website by email
• Shortcode Embeds: embeds videos, statuses or google maps into the website
• Beautiful Math: displays mathematical formulas that ordinary text editors can't.
• Related Posts: shows related posts

Display settings support

• Subscriptions: lets users sign up for notifications from the site
• Extra Sidebar Widgets: adds widgets to the site
• Widget Visibility: controls which Widgets appear on the site
• Custom CSS: like Additional CSS in the Customizer. This tool lets users customize or add CSS to the website's interface.
• Monitor: helps you keep watch over the site. It can send an email or notification automatically when the website goes down.
• Mobile Theme: for websites that aren't responsive, this is a necessary module because it provides a mobile-friendly interface.
• Com Toolbar: replaces the Admin Bar with the WordPress.com toolbar
• Gravatar Hovercards: shows extra information when a user hovers over a Gravatar.
• Infinite Scroll: with this module, users don't have to change pages. Everything refreshes as they scroll down.

Website setup

• Data Backups: backs up website data and scans for malware
• Search: adds a search function to the site
• JSON API: protects applications when they access content on the site
• Site Verification: Ownership verification web
• Protect: protects the login page from brute force attack attacks

Beyond these features, you can also adjust how images behave: full-screen viewing with the carousel module, faster loading with Photon, extra visual effects, galleries with Tiled Galleries, and saved resources with Lazy Images.

How to install Jetpack

With this many useful features, Jetpack is a plugin worth installing on WordPress. Still, knowing what Jetpack is matters less than knowing how to install and use it. Follow the steps below to install this very useful plugin.

Step 1: Log in to WordPress as an admin

Step 2: Add plugins Jetpack

Go to Plugins, choose Add New => Jetpack

Step 3: Click Install Now

Step 4: Choose a Jetpack plan

Jetpack has free, professional and premium plans. The paid plans add more useful modules. Choose according to your needs. Once the connection succeeds, all the Jetpack modules appear on your website.

Today, Jetpack has been downloaded more than 5 million times around the world, which shows how useful it is. We hope this article helps you understand Jetpack, its pros and cons, and decide whether to use it.