 So I am Chase Livingston. I'm a Happiness Engineer at Automatic and today we're going to talk a little bit about Jetpack which is one of the plugins that we at Automatic build. If you guys notice we have a booth or a table outside so if you have any questions after this I'm going to take a few questions at the end but feel free to stop by later today there's going to be at least you know two of us at the booth today so we're happy to talk to you about Jetpack and even help you get it set up on your side if you want later on today but let's jump in and and we'll talk about what Jetpack can do for you. So our mission if you choose to accept it we have quite a few features in Jetpack so it has about 35-ish different modules that you can use to do all kinds of different things for your site so you know you can see a lot of them listed there contact forms, widget visibility, even some photon as a really nice image caching module that we're going to talk about so just lots of different things that you can do to help you as I mentioned supercharge your site. So as I mentioned we can customize your site you can write great content, grow and engage your audience we even have some security features as well as performance and so we're going to kind of use those bullets there as some some large topic areas to go into so the first one we're going to talk about is customizing your site and the different modules a few different modules we have that can help you do that so custom CSS we have a mobile theme contact form sidebar widgets and some neat widget visibility features as well so the first kind of module I want to talk about is custom CSS and it's a really neat way if you have just some simple color changes layout changes that kind of thing that you need to make to your site you can without if you don't need to make a child theme which can be a little complicated if you're not familiar with that. Custom CSS is basically just an easy way to add some some simple color changes or really anything you need to do into your into your site and it's just under the appearance menu on your WordPress site so appearance edit CSS and you can basically you know if you find a different color you want to use from your theme developer or something like that you can just copy and paste that right in and click save and the the change will be applied and so some nice features of it the changes are saved in a database as it mentions there as a custom post type so if you mess up and want to revert you can always go back to a previous revision and you know go back to the changes that you did like if you accidentally did something you didn't like or if you pasted it in the wrong thing you know whatever whatever the case may be it supports if you're you know really into developer stuff it supports SAS and less preprocessors which are basically really powerful ways to write CSS so it's pretty cool that it supports that if you're if you're into that kind of thing and if you're running you know multiple sites rather than making a bunch of different child themes for all your sites to hold your CSS changes you can just use this and it's loaded in as the last style sheet in line yes sir yeah sure sure sure so CSS itself it's called that stands for cascading style sheets and it's basically the the code that is used to style the way your website looks so the theme has different I'm sure you've heard of PHP files as well and your theme those are used for like actually inserting the content and making the inserting the things that make the site look the way it looked but then CSS actually takes those and adds different colors lays them out on the page wherever they should go you know any visual like niceties or anything like that are probably gonna be written in CSS yeah it is exactly yep so if we go back I don't know if you can see too well on that slide but basically yeah so you can target different elements on the page and then in brackets you can see that those different elements have maybe colors applied they have text styles applied all that kind of good stuff so yeah it's essentially a simple it's called a markup language so it's not really a programming language but you just use it to mark up the page as to how you want it to look and so having that built in the jetpack is really simple if you just have you know a few changes if you want to change the color of your title or something like that super easy way to do that without you know having to get into the craziness of like actually making a child theme or trying to edit the theme you already have yeah a little bit so HTML and CSS kind of go hand-in-hand HTML and PHP do the actual you know insertion of the content onto the page and then CSS makes it look nice essentially so another another feature to customize is the contact form on your site so if you have some people may be familiar with gravity forms or ninja forms or another forms plugin like that and those are all I really like those those are all great plugins for doing some really powerful things with forms you can have you know different things depending on what users choose but if you just need a simple contact form that if a user fills it out and emails you a copy of what they fill out and then you can get back to them the built-in jetpack contact form is really really easy so it shows up as a button right above your post or page editor you can add a contact form there you can customize the fields it has so if you don't need you know their phone number or whatever you can remove that or change it to their website address or whatever information you need to get from whoever is contacting you you can you can do that and they're also emailed and saved locally on your site so you'll see once you enable it you'll see a new feedback tab in your dashboard over on the left hand side and so if for some reason your email gets caught a spam or something like that you can always still get those submissions and that feedback tab on your dashboard separate from the email as you get and if you have a kisman installed which most of you probably do to help filter comment spam and other spam on your site any contact forms of missions are also filtered through that so it tries to you know catch you know a spammer a bot or something like that that's filling out your contact form so hopefully you won't see those it's usually pretty good about that so that's just another you know nice little feature doesn't have spam yes sir no it doesn't have capture because the kismans usually pretty good about filtering out any spam that you get so no there's not a not a capture I haven't had any issues I have a you know I've had a contact for jetpack contact form up on my site for years now and I've never gotten any spam so usually it's not something to worry about so we'll move on sidebar widgets and widget visibility is another neat feature we have so the there are obviously some default widgets that are included in WordPress and jetpack can add a few more such as maybe display in your gravitar profile picture if you'd like to display in some image galleries in your sidebar Facebook like boxes Twitter boxes all that kind of good stuff and then widget visibility is a really powerful feature some folks may not be aware of but you can basically control where the widgets appear so if you want them to appear you know in your sidebar on your homepage but not on any other pages you can use the the logic and widget visibility to tell them to do that or if you have a widget that you only want to appear on you know one single page of your site in the sidebar on the top but not on your homepage or anywhere else you can use that as well so I would recommend playing around with that if you have some customization you want to make to your widgets and that kind of thing it'll really helps out in customizing your side and giving it some variety when users click around on different pages it doesn't always look the same and you can have you know different things in your sidebar and your various widget areas however you would like so next we've got the kind of next big bucket I want to talk about is just writing great content so jetpack has a lot of features that can help you with that some are more helpful than others so we'll kind of we'll breeze through these and hopefully some of them will be interesting to you so the first one post by email is really handy just a simple little feature if you're you know out-of-pocket or you're just you know have your maybe have your your smartphone or something like that and don't have the time to like load up the WordPress app and make a post if you have post by email set up you can basically just go into your email client of choice and and create a new email to the the secret email address that post by email creates for you and create a new post on your blog you know essentially from anywhere anywhere you have access to be able to create a new email and so that you basically the subject of the email becomes the title of the post when you send that email and then the body of the email is the body of the post on your site when it gets published you can any short codes that you have on your site if you have those to insert you know custom things those will be evaluated when you post it and you know it's just super easy to to fire off an email a lot of people are really used to doing that already so if that you know posting from mobile is something that you're not doing now but you might be interested in doing that's a great way you can attach pictures if you want to you know attach a picture to your post that I'll get inserted so just a super easy way if you're already you know sending an email from your smartphone maybe try posting a picture from your smartphone or something like that to your blog if that's something you're interested in and post by email enables you to do that really easily so the next thing markdown I don't know if any of you guys are familiar with with markdown but it's basically a shorthand for writing like HTML markup so you can use some different ways so instead of like wrapping text in HTML tags you can use just some simple like pound symbols and and asterisk and things like that to denote like italics and headings and that kind of thing and so jetpack includes a markdown format or basically so when you if you do write in markdown you can paste that mark down right into your post editor and then the jetpack markdown module will parse that and actually output the the post the way it's supposed to look in markdown I write a lot in markdown it makes it easier to format the post exactly the way you want them in certain links where you want them and that kind of thing especially if you're writing not directly in the WordPress post editor but maybe if you don't have internet access you're just writing in a text document on your computer or something like that it's super easy to get the post to look the way you want it without having to spend a lot of time so if you're not familiar with markdown number one I would recommend checking it out and then if you decide that you like it and may want to start writing in that format jetpack has you covered there where you can just enable that module and then paste your markdown in or or write directly in markdown in the editor so any mathematicians here this one's usually not a super popular feature but along those same markdown lines you can display some pretty awesome equations there I have no idea what that means but if we have any mathematicians in the room they might be interested in that as well so spelling and grammar obviously WordPress includes some like obviously spell check and that kind of thing but jetpack also includes a spelling and grammar module that will try to notify you of like passive voice that kind of thing if you if you haven't checked that so some more I guess advanced grammar features and spelling features making suggestions for maybe better words or better ways to phrase things and so obviously you know an automated service is never going to be as good as having a real human read your writing and give you feedback but this is a pretty good way to get some some feedback and an idea of maybe how you could rearrange a sentence to make it sound a little better or something like that so just a handy little little editing feature shortcode embeds are really interesting so a shortcode if you're not familiar in WordPress is basically a way you can insert content really easily so like if you look down at the bottom we have like a way to insert a Google Maps shortcode so rather than having to go to Google Maps and get the really long like iframe embed code you just use the bracket Google Maps and then right after that you can just paste a link to the Google map and then it will automatically you know go out and then grab that embed code and embed the Google map right into your page yeah sure yeah yeah so he asked if there was any downsides to like using shortcodes or markdown and no not really that basically in the behind the scenes those get evaluated to like actual HTML and that kind of thing so like when you use that Google Maps shortcode it's essentially going to go out and create that embed code that you would normally get from Google Maps it just makes it a little easier on you to not have to go and find that or create that and the same thing with mark down it's just a little bit easier than writing all the h1 h2 tags and things like that in HTML it just makes it quicker and a lot more readable as well for the content that you're writing yeah yeah it should as long as well so basically it's just doing an iframe embed so if the iframe that you get from Google Maps is responsive which I believe they normally are then that will be responsive as well on the site and so there's a bunch of other shortcodes as you can see there slide share which are pretty cool for like we know when I embed these slides or something like that on my website that's what I would use archives band camp if you want to insert like a music player or something like that if you're you know a band or a musician that wants to insert like a little player for your site just some some easy ways and some simple things to to insert shortcodes and to make it a little easier on yourself to insert these things into your site so next is a really cool feature that I like it's called carousel and so normally when you have like a gallery embedded on your site and use your clicks on a particular image in the gallery that would just load that image in a separate page and it would basically take them to what's called the attachment page and so it would just show the image you know in its own page on the site but with carousel it gives you obviously a lot nicer light box view so it basically fades out the background and the picture just shows above the the gallery that they clicked on and so it's just a nice way to format individual images you can have it'll have you know arrows on either side they can click through the gallery in the the carousel if they'd like and if you're into you know especially for photographers it you can also show the the exit data the XIF data of the photo what kind of camera you took it with shutter speed all that kind of stuff will also display right there in the carousel if you're interested in that captions display right below there so it's just a really nice way to display photos in your gallery rather than just having them linked to a separate page and not look as nice so if you have any galleries on your site basically if you enable carousel it's just a one click and then all your galleries will use the carousel when when a user clicks on an image to make it larger so I definitely recommend checking that out it's one of my favorite one of my favorite features and speaking of galleries tile galleries are another it's a new basically a different gallery type that's not normally included in WordPress that we build in in Jetpack so it's kind of a neat way as you can see it just kind of tiles your images based on like how large they are what aspect ratio they're taking in that kind of thing and just presents them in a little bit neater looking way than just like a thumbnail or something like that it kind of tries to place them in a in a way that is more visually appealing depending on what the image looks like captions so if you if you hover it over one of the images if the image had a caption it would kind of slide up from the bottom and you could view the caption that way and it's just super easy so any galleries you have you can basically just go and change their type to tile galleries and this will just happen automatically so there's no no setup or anything like that it does all the the rendering and stuff like that in the background so you don't you don't have to pick you know this is the large image in the gallery this is the one over here it just places those automatically depending on your your gallery right yeah so it'll basically slide them into view a little better but sure yeah it's gonna it's gonna be responsive and everything as well on a mobile device so you don't have to worry about that so the next kind of big bucket of things we want to talk about is growing and engaging your audience which I think everybody is you know concerned with if you're running a website or running a business on WordPress so we have quite a few features that you can use to especially engage with your audience and find out you know what kind of behaviors they're they're taking on your site so what they're viewing that kind of thing so the first the first big one which I've heard a lot of people come by the booth and talk about this weekend this is publicize so it's basically you know in a nutshell it's an easy way to any new blog post you publish to push that out to your various social networks so Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google plus any of the major social networks you're using and so you basically enable that module and then you can connect authorize your site with all those various social networks so you like you know press connect and log into your Facebook account and then your Facebook accounts connected and so then anyway anytime you publish a new post you can choose whether or not you want that post to automatically be published to Facebook or Twitter or whatever for you and then when you publish that post in the background it automatically gets a link and the featured image and that kind of thing sent out to Facebook so you don't have to worry about going in and copying the link and then pasting it into Facebook and writing the content yourself it just automatically happens you can define a custom message so if by default it's just the post title and then a link to the post but if you wanted to you know add a hashtag for Twitter or something like that or if you wanted to change the message on Facebook you can definitely do that and it just all happens in the background nothing you have to do to worry about it and you have you know the choice each time if there maybe is a post you don't want to go out you can always just uncheck the the publicize options for that particular post and it won't go get published yes ma'am correct yeah so it goes out as soon as the post is published off the post is scheduled for a later date once that post is published it'll go out but if you're just clicking the publish button it'll go out right then so sometimes there's maybe you know one or two minute delay depending on how long it takes Facebook to respond but essentially it's immediate so yeah the next sort of along those same lines sharing links you can embed those either at the end of your post or really wherever you would like but they're basically just easy ways to insert some buttons to some popular social networks at the in your post so you know when a user gets to the end of reading it if they want to share it this gives them an easy way to do that they can just click right on that Twitter button and it automatically populates a tweet for them in their Twitter account with a link back to your post and they can you know share that right then and it kind of is just a nice way for users to be able to share your content you can obviously customize the buttons so you can see here there's some icons there the words there and then the actual you know official buttons from the social networks there you can customize which ones are in view and which ones are hidden behind a more button so if you only want to have you know Twitter and Facebook or your main social networks you can only have those two appear and then have the rest behind a little more button over here so that when you click the more button all the other social networks kind of show up if if a user wanted to share it to something else so it's just an easy way to give users a way to quickly share your content and hopefully you know then one that once they share that then their you know friends and followers and that kind of thing will come back and read it as well so it's a quick way for hopefully your content to get to a much wider audience than than just you sharing it so one more time yes you can use custom buttons yeah so if there's not a social network that's included I know we have users in you know different countries that have different social networks that we haven't integrated yet but you can add a custom button as long as you you know you just basically need an icon and then the the sharing API link you can add a custom button for a different social network or a different network yeah so you could add basically you could add your own custom Pinterest button in that way if you really wanted to do that yeah so you could use the the custom social networks that already exists too so most of the social networks these days don't provide stats directly back to the site but you can usually like I know Facebook includes in their developer tools you can like plug a link into your site and it'll show you how many times it was shared on Facebook but usually they don't expose that data to like outside sources usually have to go directly to them to get those kind of stats and there are some sites that could try to aggregate that but it's with some recent like API changes in Facebook and Twitter especially it's become pretty difficult to get those stats on our end so rather than having a bad experience we we don't try to gather those if you use the stuff if we go back if you use the official buttons as I mentioned down here these are the so these are embedding the buttons directly from all those different social networks and so it's basically directly connected to their API so you will see a share number there if you use those official buttons whereas you you might not always see a share button we try our best to show a number of shares but sometimes those APIs change and so until we can you know figure out why they locked it down or you know if we need to authenticate or something like that we can't always show a share number there so the next next thing I wanted to talk about was jetpack comments so WordPress obviously includes a native commenting system where you can basically you ask the user for a name an email address and then their comment or a website maybe in their comment with jetpack comments it basically extends that and allows users to to log in with any of their social networks and use that identity on in your comments so rather than them having to fill that out if they log in with Facebook say it'll automatically pull in their Facebook avatar or Facebook image and their name and that kind of thing and so when they comment that that information or that data about them will be populated in so rather than you know making users making users fill out that contact or that comment form to comment on your site it just gives them a little easier way to engage and if they're already logged in to one of these services when they view your your comment form that will automatically detect that and just display that for them automatically and say hey you're you know you're using your Facebook account or using your Twitter account to comment here and it gives them an option to log out if they don't want to do that but usually you know that's just a simple way and it kind of decreases the barrier to entry for somebody to comment on one of your posts if they're already logged in and don't have to fill anything out they just you know type their comment and then leave it so like I mentioned multiple service authentication and if you're even even uses WordPress.com so if they're logged into their WordPress.com account by chance they can use that account to comment so just a super easy way to make it even easier for users to comment on your site then what it already is so the the next little feature are likes which are you can think about it like Facebook likes it's not really doing a whole lot of anything it's just an easy way to say hey I enjoyed reading this or hey I read this post and so essentially just inserts a little like button at the end of your post and then when somebody likes it obviously their gravitar image if they're logged into dot-com will show up there that they liked it and you can obviously see a number of how many people liked your post so similar to how Facebook does likes or maybe Twitter does favorites just a neat little way for for people to engage with your content and say hey I enjoyed reading this and hopefully make you feel pretty good about what you've written or what you're asking them to engage with there. Subscriptions are another big feature of Jetpack and a really popular one essentially you can allow users to subscribe via email to your site and then whenever you publish a new post it'll automatically get sent out to all your subscribers so similar to how publicize works when you publish a new post it gets pushed out to your social networks subscriptions anybody who's subscribed to your site via email it'll automatically push those out to email with them and they can also use if they prefer wordpress.com they can also get the the post pushed to their wordpress.com reader so if you're subscribed to any sites at wordpress.com you may be familiar with the reader and how the posts show up in sort of a feed type way but basically it's just another easy way for you to keep your content in front of people so you can have like a email subscription form in the sidebar of your site and users can just input their email address click subscribe and then they're automatically subscribed now so when next time you publish a new post it'll automatically get pushed out to them there's no configuration there's no crazy like email server set up it just is super easy for you and the user to to push those out there's no load or bandwidth requirements on your site because we handle the the actual email process on our wordpress.com servers so the the post basically gets pushed out from our servers instead so there's no extra load or anything like that on your site so nothing to worry about there so the the next little bit which is on the top of everybody's mind usually especially with some recent security updates and stuff like that to WordPress is basically how can we help you increase the security and stability of your site so we've got quite a few features that can help with that as well the the first one which a lot of people don't know about but it can be really interesting as WordPress.com single sign-on so if you already I mean if you're using Jetpack and have it connected you already have a WordPress.com account and if you have multiple WordPress sites it can be you know a little bit of an annoying task to keep track of all the logins for each of those sites with if you enable WordPress.com single sign-on on all those all those sites you can use your WordPress.com account to log in to any site that you manage without having to keep track of the the username separate username separate passwords for all those different sites and it also the one other nice feature if you're familiar with two-factor authentication a lot of websites now are pushing that where you basically have a second code that gets sent to your cell phone or something like that to authenticate on the site that supports that natively whereas WordPress you have to go out and get a separate plug-in to do that but with WordPress.com single sign-on it's a lot more it can be a lot more secure and a lot easier to not have to remember you know seven different user names and passwords for the seven different WordPress sites that that you may manage or that you may have so I would recommend it basically just adds a new button to the login form when you try to go to log into your WordPress dashboard that says login with WordPress.com and so you click that if you're not already logged into WordPress.com that asks you to log in if you are it just automatically authenticates you and redirects you right back to the dashboard of the site so just an easy way to make managing passwords a little easier and I have to remember so many and it is definitely a very secure way to log into your sites so if you haven't tried it I give it a shot and see if you like it and let me know managing your site is another interesting feature that we can help especially with plug-in updates and that kind of thing making sure that things stay up to date so this is a new feature of Jetpack called Jetpack manage but basically you can manage all of your Jetpack connected sites from one central location on WordPress.com you can create content you can write posts from that one location and publish to you know any of your sites that you manage you can keep your plugins up to date you can even enable plug-in auto updates similar to how WordPress does auto updates itself we have it hasn't built out a way to do that with plug-in so with the Jetpack manage feature if there's a plug-in that you know you want to keep up to date if it's one you trust maybe like a you know a WordPress SEO by Yoast you know just a large plug-in that you can trust the updates from you can basically just click a toggle on WordPress.com and then anytime the that plug-in has an update pushed it'll automatically update it for you without any interaction from you and it'll send you an email and that's done to let you know you know hey this was successful I've updated the WordPress SEO plug-in or I've updated the gravity forms plug-in yes ma'am it'll send you an email as well letting you know what happened and then hopefully with some information on how to remedy what the problem is I personally I have this enabled on all my sites and I've been testing this for you know at least a year now and haven't run into any issues yet on any plug-in it's always been successful for me but if there is a problem it'll it'll let you know in that email as well like hey I wasn't able to update this plug-in or whatever depending on what the problem was maybe if it's not able to it's not able to but yeah that would be ideal you know in a lot of cases that would be what it would try to do so you like I said you can write blog posts for your sites from this one central location and it just you know makes it easy if you if you're a freelancer or something like that and you have five six you know 10 20 WordPress sites that you're managing you can update plugins for all those sites in one location you don't have to log into each site and do that you can even you know like I said write blog posts for all those sites in one location so it's a really neat feature I would recommend and it's you know completely free which all these features I'm talking about in Jetpack R so I would recommend checking it out it makes it super simple to manage you know more than one WordPress site another sort of along those same lines Jetpack Monitor will help you monitor the uptime of your site so if something happens to your host or your start your server goes down or you get a lot of traffic and your site goes down Jetpack Monitor will send you an email to let you know that so basically it checks your site every five minutes to see if it's up and if it is either like really slow to respond or if it just doesn't get a response or if it gets a bad response from your site it checks from two other geographic locations to make sure it's not just an issue with that particular data center so maybe it checks from you know one of our data centers in Texas that if it sees your site is down then it checks from you know Asia and Europe or something like that to make sure that you know it's not just an issue between the Texas data center and your site and if it's still down then that's when it sends the email to let you know and then it continues to check every two minutes after that until your site's back up and if the site comes back up obviously without an interaction from you it'll send you an email to let you know that but it's just an easy way to check on your site make sure you know if it's in the middle of the night and you wake up in the morning your site's been down you can know that and then contact your host if you need to to find out what went wrong if it was something that you need to fix if it's something that they need to fix it's just an easy notification to check on that and it's you know once you enable it it just uses the email address that's associated with your account on that site so yeah I would I have this you know enabled on all my sites and I would recommend having it on yours as well because you know you always want to know if your site's up or down and how to fix that if it does go down brute force login protection is another new feature of jetpack and it basically helps prevent bots or malicious individuals from trying to gain access to your site so if they are trying to just guess your username and password for your WordPress site a lot of times they will just try a bunch of different combinations until hopefully they get in with this brute force login protection after they have done this you know a few times and not got in we just automatically locked down their IP address and just don't allow them to even attempt logging in anymore so that really protects your site from these kind of attacks and the another nice thing about it is it's basically network-wide so any jetpack connected site that has an IP locked down that IP gets locked down for all other jetpack connected WordPress sites so you're kind of once you enable this you're kind of helping the greater jetpack and WordPress community at large because if somebody tries to log into your site and gets locked out because they're just attempting to hack it if they go to another WordPress site that's connected with jetpack they won't even get the first chance to log in because that IP address has already been locked out so it's a nice way to sort of help the community as well as you know help your own site and you benefit from that as well from anybody else so I would definitely recommend enabling this and it's you know just an easy way to make and make sure you're being as secure as you can WordPress since it powers you know 24 percent of the internet now as a target for hackers and that kind of thing so this is an easy way to make yourself less of a target and not make it you know as easy on folks to do some damage to your site so the last little bit I wanted to talk about was performance of your site which is another sort of big thing that the jetpack can help you with and the first sort of big thing and that is stats so we all want to know you know how many users are visiting our site how many times they're clicking around what blog posts are viewing that kind of thing and stats violation and like a bar graph format of that in your dashboard you can view how many users have visited what posts are clicking what posts are most popular that kind of thing and so often I recommend running this alongside Google Analytics or something like that a lot of people are already familiar with Google Analytics this gives you sort of a different view and you can compare and contrast the data you're getting from each of those and see get sort of an average or an overview of your users behavior one of the nice things that WordPress.com stats has that Google Analytics does not as we can obviously detect when you're logged into your site and clicking around whereas Google Analytics doesn't have a way of knowing if you're logged into your site so it will track all the clicks and all the times you view different posts and pages on your site but with jetpack stats and WordPress.com stats we know that you're logged in so we automatically don't count those in your your overall stats so that way you know if you're clicking around checking things on your site you made a change and you want to you click through five or ten blog posts just to make sure it looks okay those aren't gonna that's not gonna artificially inflate your stats or anything like that so you get a you get a really good representation and it's a good way to compare and contrast with other different kinds of stats plugins and stats setups that you can use and like I said we like to make sure that your stats are your stats so you can get them in the mobile apps you can get them in your WordPress dashboard if you log in to the the jetpack manage that I mentioned earlier on WordPress.com those stats are shown there as well so lots of lots of ways for you to get those stats so photon I mentioned the beginning is a really great service it's basically a way that when you insert an image into a poster page rather than your server having to load that image every time somebody requests that poster page we serve that from WordPress.com servers which are generally a lot faster and you know a lot more responsive than a than a shared host or something like that that your site might be on so it just takes some of the load off your server and allows your your server to focus on other things you know rendering the other content and things like that it's just you know a simple way to to make your site just a little bit faster it's not going to be a huge difference but you know every little bit helps when users are having to wait on your site to load so you know simply enabling enabling it can double the concurrent users that your site can support so if you know your your site crashes with a hundred people on your site because it just can't handle the load of rendering all that if you enable photon and allow us to serve those images for you you may be able to serve you know 150 to 200 users at a single time without things really slowing down and the nice thing too is that our data centers like I mentioned earlier all over the world so if a user in Japan you know requests a post from your site the the images in that post are going to be served from our Asia data centers which since they're you know geographically much closer will be served a lot faster than if they were requesting it from your data center here in the U.S. or something like that and this is just a one-click thing so once you enable photon all this happens in the background and the images are automatically served then from then on until you know you disable it or if you decided you wanted to or whatever else and a lot of people want to know like if they want to try this out and enable it but they decide for whatever reason they don't want to use it if you disable it nothing changes it just goes back to your site goes back to serving the images itself so there's no like broken images or anything like that you don't have to worry about that um so it basically uh uh no uh nothing to worry about if you want to try this out um related posts are another uh interesting feature that we can kind of help you with engaging your audience um so if you want to enable this um wordpress.com we basically index all the posts on your site and sort of develop relationships and find out you know hey this post these posts are in similar categories these posts have similar tags or similar you know post content that kind of thing um and we can then display uh by default it displays three other posts on your site that are what we consider related uh to present users that are reading your posts with um so it's just a great way to uh hopefully present your your users with some some other content that they might be interested in and really engage them a little more on your site have not have them just you know read that one post and then click away maybe if they see a related post down at the bottom they'll click through to that and read that and and just learn more about what you do who you are what your blog is about that kind of thing um and you know like a lot of jetpacks features all these algorithms and things like that are handled on wordpress.com servers and then just sink back down to your site so there's no you know server load of your server trying to index and then make connections between all your different posts which is nice um so you know no overhead or anything like that and you know as you can see you can either choose to display the featured images with the the post links or if you just want to display the the titles themselves with links you can do that too and with some different uh short codes and things like that you can also move the related posts from the bottom to maybe the middle of your post content if you really wanted to or something like that depending on how your site's laid out um so there's a lot of customization available you can also have more than three if you'd like uh we can that's uh a little bit more of an involved process but if that's something you're interested in stop by the the table in a little while and we can talk about that and you can also you know if you wanted to have uh one particular post show is a related post for every post on your site you can also do that if it's like your favorite blog post or the the one that's most important on your site you can have that show in that related post section for for every other post on your site too so a lot of customization and and that kind of thing um and so that kind of wraps up the the big you know features and that kind of thing of jetpack um one other few more things really that I wanted to mention um the jetpack is well maintained and supported so I am one of uh about nine or ten other people that answer your emails and that kind of thing when you have you know a question or a problem with jetpack you have about a one in ten chance of of me being the person to answer your email but we have you know a lot of dedicated people that this you know this is our full-time job is helping folks out with jetpack and um making sure that they're being as successful as they can be with it um and uh we also have um you know about fifteen plus developers who are working on the code every day day in day out making sure that jetpack is uh fast making sure it uh works well with all kinds of different server setups and site setups um so it's it's well supported well maintained uh we you know try to release updates as often as we can so I'm sure you'll see some updates coming if you you know install jetpack today you'll see updates coming regularly um so you can definitely rest assured that it's a uh a great maintained plug-in and it's also a well supported plug-in and you know all for free it's pretty awesome to get email support um and you know a maintenance like this forever uh with a free plug-in so if you're interested you know if automatic sounds like an interesting company to you or you want to come work on jetpack with me um we're always looking for for new awesome people um we have that number is a little out of date it's more like uh almost 400 plus automaticians now working on uh jetpack and you know quite a few other things as well so that link there at the bottom automatic.com slash work with us you can uh get some more information there and uh hopefully come maybe work on jetpack with me or work on some of the other things we do so if we have I think a few minutes a little while for questions um so does anybody yes sir okay yeah so it tries to photon he asked if his images are getting maybe squeezed a little bit on a client site they're not quite the right size so photon tries its best to you know be responsive and display those images um uh in a at a size that is appropriate for the browser that it's being viewed on um every once in a while we'll have we'll see issues with that so you know if you're having that problem send us an email and we'll take a look um but it's probably an issue it may it may be an issue with um the content lens content with setting on the the theme or something like that or um but usually uh 99 percent of the time it it works but occasionally there is an issue where it may you know throw in a the wrong size for a particular browser or something like that so we're happy to help you out with that um and see what's going on at least figure out what's going on with that sure mm-hmm so uh automatic already has a backup service vault press right so that is basically what we're pushing with our our manage feature is um having users connect vault press and use that for their backups as well uh so it yeah yeah vault presses is pretty well integrated into jetpack so if you're interested in site backups if you're not backing up your site regularly um i would highly suggest doing that because if you know if something happens an update plug in update or something brings down your site it's just an easy way to roll back uh and make sure that your site is not affected for as long as possible um and so i'll plug vault press it's another product that we build that's well integrated into jetpack and it can do daily it can do hourly and it can do real-time backups of your site uh so you can always roll back to a previous version of your site if if something goes wrong super easy to set up and that kind of thing so yes ma'am so generally uh she asked if there were such a thing as like plug-in conflicts and then if you have too many plugins can it slow down your site and so i mean yeah you know as with anything the more uh the more you add to something the the slower it can get so if you have a you know say an iphone or something like that and you have you know your storage completely full with apps or something like that your phone's probably going to be a little slower um so that is something that you can you might need to watch out for but generally uh plugins are hopefully if you're using reputable plugins and things like that like jetpack and some other large plugins hopefully they're coded well enough that they obviously one don't have conflicts and two are not using more resources than what they need on your site so not slowing your site down to do what they need to do and so a lot of the way we do that with jetpack is offloading a lot of that processing to wordpress.com servers so that we're not uh you know overtaxing or using more of your server than we need to and a lot of other plugins do similar things so in general that's not something to worry about but if if you are noticing your site is loading really slowly or seeing issues then that's definitely somewhere to start is to evaluate what plugins you're using what plugins that are installed that you may not be using that you could deactivate and just check that out and you know it's always good to keep an eye on the health of your site and that kind of thing and so that's one way to do that is removing plugins you're not using anymore and and uh making sure that the ones you you do have installed are ones that you're actively using but if if they're all things you're using uh then I would you know you know look into other things if your site's slow or something like that maybe a better server or something like that and and that kind of thing so that's that would be my answer anybody else yeah of course so it's not what it is correct yeah bring and breathe whatever you bring correct don't worry about those things yeah mm-hmm yep yeah so he asked for the for everybody else he asked if it was compatible with you know all themes you know regardless and so the answer is yes if you do have any issues we're happy to help you out with that but um you know we we try to test it on as wide a variety of themes as we can and don't run into any issues so for some reason maybe you would run into an issue we're happy to help with that but we don't uh we don't see that very often if at all yes sir mm-hmm so yeah so he asked some hosting companies offer cdn's which is you know I mentioned photon as an image cdn and so the the difference there is that with photon we're just doing images whereas with hosting companies that are offering cdn's they're going to be serving uh basically your entire site uh from you know geographically uh look geographic locations that are close to where your users are requesting it they're going to be compressing your your javascript css php files and that kind of thing so I would recommend if you do have that uh opportunity and that's something you're interested in I would you know run them in parallel it's not gonna not gonna affect anything if you're running a cdn from your host as well as photon for your images um that's only gonna you know in general make your site faster so um I would I would use them in parallel it's not you know one or the other or something like that they can't some some do some don't so um yeah it depends uh some hosts do include serving images some don't um so if uh if that's something your host is doing I would definitely recommend checking it out and and seeing you know what they offer anybody else with with questions yeah so he asked if jetpack had had any like notable security issues or hacking issues uh and no we haven't uh so we obviously you know have maintained security releases and things like that we haven't had a an issue that uh the jetpack plugin was vulnerable and that vulnerability was exploited obviously all plugins and even WordPress itself occasionally have vulnerabilities and as long as those are you know disclosed in the proper ways and that kind of thing we fix those and usually it's never an issue so we haven't had an issue where a uh security vulnerability was exploited in jetpack uh that i'm aware of and i've been working on this for a couple years now so we we try our best to keep it as secure as we can anybody else yeah so i've gotten this question about five times this weekend and that's a really good question actually he asked if you know if jetpack's free everything's free how do we function as a company and so automatic has quite a few other products as i mentioned vault press for backups that's a paid service um we also host uh with wordpress.com VIP we host sites like time magazine and some other new york times some really large websites and so they pay us quite a bit of money for basically a hundred percent uptime uh support from our developers and things like that um so we make we make money in other ways uh and make a lot of it um so uh yeah no worries with jetpack going anywhere it's just sort of a way to give back to the wordpress community at large um for us so you know we could charge for these services but we don't because we feel like it's a good way for us to give back to to wordpress as a whole and to our users and that kind of thing mm-hmm sure yeah exactly yeah exactly so yeah we have plans to continue developing jetpack uh well into the future so no worries with that we you know just released an update a week or two ago so and we'll probably have another one coming out in another week or two so uh you can you can rest assured that that's jetpack is is on the long-term plans for for automatic as a product so yeah uh huh yeah yeah sure so each uh if you're familiar with the the wordpress.org plugin repository where you go to usually install or download free plugins and things like that each plugin has its own forum um that you can use to either search if you want to try to find your answer or that kind of thing so yeah i would you know you could start there i need to make a new post if you want it and and so we so along with working in email support also work in those forums as well answering questions and we also have a support site jetpack.me slash support we have support docs and stuff like that there so you may be able to find an answer there as well but if you don't you know feel free to send us an email because that's what we're there for and we're happy to help you out anybody else no all right well i thank you guys for coming i think we are just about right on time here so i appreciate you guys coming and listening and if you have any questions stop by the the jetpack table out there