Hi! This is Topher with WinningWP. In
this video we're going to take a look at
the questions "What is Jetpack for
WordPress and What Can It Do?" Before we
get started on those questions though
I'd like to look at one more. Who makes it?
Jetpack is a product of a company called
Automattic and Automattic is the largest
WordPress based company in the world.
They make many many things, they employ
hundreds of people, and it's a very large
business. Because of that you can expect
quality and long-term availability. They
put a great deal of resources into
Jetpack they're not going to let it die
and they're not going to let bugs and
poor quality code work their way in. So
the fact that Jetpack has made my
Automattic is a pretty big deal; it lends
a lot of credibility to it. Now let's
move on to our question of What Is
Jetpack For? Jetpack was built to
leverage the power of the servers at
WordPress.com. Leveraging the power of
the servers at WordPress.com reduces
strain on your server and can save you
time and money. So let's look at the last
question. This is the home page for
Jetpack and it talks at the top right
about security essentials but it does
many many more things. It deals with
traffic and SEO tools, security and
backup services, it helps you make
elegant, fast, and rich content, and it's
always there for you. It works behind the
scenes to prevent malicious attacks on
your site and to ditch spam. Let me show
you the backend of WordPress with
Jetpack installed. This is the Jetpack
dashboard and I have enabled some stats
so you can see here my blog stats. It
tells me all-time views and all-time
comments. It tells me that Jetpack has
blocked over 320,000 attacks on my site.
It's also blocked nearly 28,000
spam comments. That's really
dramatic and saves me an enormous amount
of time. If we click here in the settings
you can see there's a whole section of
tools for helping you with writing. It
has a spelling, style, and grammar checker
built in. Here's a tool to help speed up
images and photos. I don't know if you
realize this but when you upload an
image to WordPress, WordPress actually
makes multiple copies of it in different
sizes so that you can use them in
different sizes. With Jetpack it uploads
the image to the WordPress servers and
it's processed there. Additionally it can
even serve it from there like a CDN or
Content Delivery Network. That makes the
whole process feel much much faster and
again make your site actually run much
faster. There are some great tools for
sharing. You can add sharing buttons, like
buttons, and you can even have it
automatically share your posts to social
networks. If you wish you can use
Jetpack's Discussion and Comments tool
and it replaces the one built into
WordPress. There are a lot of reasons to
do this namely it helps filter spam even
better and it keeps your comments off
your site so that if something happens
to your site you don't lose your
comments. You can also set it up so that
people can subscribe to your blog so
that when you do a post they get
notified via email. Here's the site stats
section we looked at earlier. If you use
the pay version of Jetpack, you can
optionally put ads on your site and then
make money from those ads. There's a
great related posts tool and again with
the paid version there's some great SEO
tools and Google Analytics tools. The
paid version has backups and security
scanning built in but the free version
has spam filtering built in as well as
brute force attack protection. And if you
wish you can activate 2-step
authentication which can greatly enhance
the security of your site. I haven't even
gone over all the tools in Jetpack
and you can already see that there's a
number of things here lots and lots of
different tools. Jetpack can process
store and serve media like images and
video. It can filter spam. It can
integrate your site with stats and other
SEO tools and it can work as a security
firewall as well as many many more
things. Jetpack is an extremely diverse
tool and probably no-one is going to use
every tool. But most people are going to
use many of the tools because Jetpack
covers so many areas. If you haven't
tried it yet I strongly recommend you
give it a shot.
if you'd like to learn more about
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