 Well, thanks very much for having me. So wordpress.org and wordpress.com, who's got a wordpress.org installation that they're using? All right, who's got a wordpress.com website? Excellent. So, and that's one of the common questions I get asked by people is, you know, what's the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com? And really, simply as you all know, wordpress.org is the one that you download and host. And wordpress.com is the exact same version of the software that is hosted and managed by automatic or by WordPress. So, but there are some things that you can use from wordpress.com to really supercharge your wordpress.org website. So I just want to show you today. It's going to be a bit of a live demo. So what could go wrong, right? So let's get into it. All right, so the first thing is that if you've got a wordpress.org site, you should have a wordpress.com site as well. So make sure you create a wordpress.com account. And then what happens is that there's a plug-in there which is called Jetpack. Who's got Jetpack installed on their website already? Who's never heard of Jetpack? Excellent. Well, you're in for a treat. Jetpack is one of the plug-ins that is a WordPress plug-in and it really does give a whole lot of information to your website that you may not be aware of. And there's a whole lot more features in there and the more that you dig into it, the more that you can find that it does. So the first thing we'll do is just install the Jetpack plug-in. And to do that, let's just play this here. I made a quick video because I knew that if I went live, it wasn't going to work. So all we do is just the normal way you go to your plug-ins in your site there and you'll see that Hello Dolly's already there and Akismet's also there as well too. So there are WordPress plug-ins, so we're going to upload or go to the plug-in repository and search for Jetpack by WordPress.com which is already on the first page of the repository. We'll install it and then we'll activate it. And then once it's activated, it gives you access to a whole lot more features that are available through WordPress.com. So the first thing you do is click the set up Jetpack button down the bottom and that'll take you through to the WordPress.com, your WordPress.com account to connect it. And this is what it looks like. So if you haven't got an account already with WordPress.com, you can create one here. And so you just put your email address in, create a username, choose a password and then once you hit create your account, that actually creates your WordPress.com account. Even though you're using the Jetpack plug-in, it creates it. If you've already got an account already, then you can just sign in with your username and your password. Oh, I can't spell, can I? And pop your password in and once that happens, you'll come to a screen which will say, do you want to approve connecting your WordPress.org site to your WordPress.com login? So we just click yes for that and it takes a few seconds to activate and connect it all. And once it's done that, all of a sudden you've got some magic superpowers for your website and it's all pretty cool. They do ask you some questions now. This is recently new about what your website's for. I've just done this so many times, I'm just going to skip through them all, but you can answer those questions there. And when we get to the end of it, then you've got some options there as to what level you want to pay for. My recommendation is to scroll down to the bottom and in the bottom, you can just start with free. So just start with free. So all of the things I'm going to talk to you about today, all of the free things are available on WordPress.com for your site. So once you've done that, this is now your WordPress.com dashboard. And this is where some of the magic happens. So if you return to a WP admin down the bottom, it takes you back to your website. But first of all, let's go and activate a few things here. So you'll see there's some options that come with it. So we're going to try downtime monitoring. So if your website goes down, then this will send you through a notification to say your website's down. So it's just as simple as clicking the toggle and that's all activated and you'll get notifications. Do you want to use your WordPress.com sign in to sign into your website? So this will allow you to use either the login that you've got for your website or for WordPress.com. So we're going to say yes, we're going to do that. How about speeding up your site? Speed's all important today with Google. So let's just enable the site accelerator, which will speed up our image load time and some of our scripts. So it's a CDN that's provided by Photon on WordPress. And it can also lazy load your images, which means that all of the images that are below the fold, they won't actually load into your website until you scroll down to them. So it gives you a quicker load time. So all of these are available on Jetpack.com. And as you see, it's taken about a minute just to activate all of these features here that are going to speed up your website and give you easier accessibility to it. So we're going to click return WP admin. So we're back in our dashboard now. And so back in the dashboard, we've got a settings section here. And in the settings, we've got along the top, security, performance, writing, sharing, discussion and traffic. So there's a whole lot of options in there that you can get and have a look at. So what we'll do is we'll just exit this and we'll go to a website that I've created, especially for this WordCamp. So soon when we get to the website, here's your normal login screen, except it's a little bit different. There's no username and password. And if we click login with username and password, we can use that to log in the normal way to our site. Or you can just click in login with WordPress.com. It's a one-click login. And in this case, I'm not logged into Word. So you need to be logged into WordPress.com to start with. So let's just log into that. Anyone remember my password? Password. Oops, there it is. All right, let's try that again. And this is going to work this time. Fingers crossed. Live demo, remember. It's never going to work. All right, so it's asking me to set up two-factor authentication, which we won't do. Probably because I've got a plugin installed that tells me to do that. OK, because it's a live demo, it's not going to work. So I'm just going to log in with my normal username and password. Just pretend it worked. So the key to it is you need to be already logged into your WordPress.com account. If you're already logged into it and you just click the login with WordPress.com, it'll just take you straight through to the dashboard. It's at the top here. And because it's a demo, I've just logged in with a subscriber profile. So let's just log in with another one. All right, so let's get back to our Jetpack settings. And here's where all of the magic is. So the first thing is security. Now we've already done that in the WordPress.com dashboard already. So you'll see all of those icons there. So we've got brute force protection on. We've got allowing to log in with WordPress.com. So we can use our email address. And there's some options there about how you log in. So it's got two-factor authentication, which is what it asked me to start with. So if I don't want to set that up, we can turn it off and then it won't ask me that question. My recommendation is these days, it's having two-factor authentication. There's another layer of security, which makes it harder for people to hack into your website. So it's a generally have it on. The next one here is performance. So again, we've already enabled the site accelerator for images and static or files such as CSS files. So if you tick all those, that will just make your website run faster and enabling lazy load for images. Now, sometimes this doesn't work with some page builders, the lazy load. So if it's not working or you've already got lazy load in with another plugin, then just switch it off here. And the next one's writing. So there's a couple of cool features that if you're putting a gallery into your posts, you know how WordPress will just put them in and they just thumbnail squares. If you select display images in a full-screen gallery, it'll enable you to click on those images and when you click on them, it'll bring up a light box and you'll have full-size images to flow through. So it's just a quick way to get a good presentation of your images. And the other one is this one here when you're composing. So you can select this one here to copy. If you wanna go copy a post or a page or some plugins that will do it, or if you just select this here, it will, when you select copy, it will copy the entire post or page. So if you've got a sort of template layout that you're using, it'll copy it all and then you can just change it and alter it and then sort of publish your new post. You can write pages or posts in what they call plain text markdown syntax. Anyone know what that means? There's a little button over here that says learn more. So if you wanna know what that means, markdown will sort of enable you to do things like, I think they've got an example here. So if you use what we've got over here, just a little star, it will turn it into a bullet point. So there's, so if you wanna find out more about markdown, it's just a really quick way of adding bold italics bullet points just by typing in, in this instance here, the star. So if you like something sort of quick, that's a good easy way to do it. And if we get back to the site, okay. The latex, who uses latex on their website? Who wears latex while they're blogging? So latex is a markup language for mathematical symbols. So if you've got mathematical equations that you wanna put in, if you switch on latex, it'll do the equals and the sigma sign and all of those tricky signs. Without turning it into code and sort of running the code, it'll just put it in as text. So good if you're a maths teacher. And you can compose using short codes to embed media from popular sites. You actually don't need that one on anymore because with the latest versions of WordPress, you can just grab the, say, YouTube URL, just paste it into your post and it will automatically know that it's a video and display it as a video. So that one you don't need. And then you've got some things called custom post types like and they offer you two testimonials and portfolios. So as soon as you activate those, you'll see on the left-hand side, you've now got testimonials. And if we activate portfolios, then it gives you a portfolio custom post type. So you don't need to install another plugin and create a whole custom post type. It's all here for you. So if we go to testimonials, for instance, you can see that we've already created some testimonials. It looks very much like creating a post or a page and you can use the Gutenberg blocks and you can just add your text and your images in there. And the same with portfolios. So if you want to display your work or even have an image gallery in there, you can put all of your portfolio pieces into a custom post type which is there. So how quick's that? Then we've got infinite scroll. Now if using infinite scroll allows you to add a button or it'll add a button to the bottom of your post. If you click on the button, it'll just scroll to the next post. So rather than going to the next page, it just automatically adds it to the bottom of the post. But that one there sometimes depending on your theme, some themes have support for that, other themes don't have support for it. So if you click that and you don't notice any difference, then your theme doesn't have support for it. You're gonna add a line of code into your theme. And if you want to find out more about it, there's a little information box on the right hand side. If you just click learn more, that'll tell you what line of code you need to add to your functions file and how to get it working. And you've got another panel here which is to enhance or add your additional CSS. Again, you don't need that one now because that already comes preloaded in the new version of WordPress. Now this one's really cool and that's your widgets. So it'll allow extra widgets for your site, things like I think Twitter, social media. So it's from additional widgets available. But what's really good about this is a one that's called enable widget visibility controls to display or hide widgets on a particular post. So all you do is activate that. And then if you go over to your widgets, you'll see that there's a new checkbox on your widgets. Let's just grab one here and we'll drop it into the footer. You'll see there's another button now it says visibility. When you click on that button, something should happen. Let's just reload that page. So when you click on it, a box appears and it says either show or hide this widget for either a particular author for a category, for a user, for a role. So you might just show it for just admin or you might wanna show it just for subscribers or maybe sort of admin and editor. And then you can buy tag, date or taxonomy. So let's click page. And let's say we only want to show it on posts. So you can show that widget only on posts. So now it only shows in your blog posts but it doesn't show on the rest of the pages in your website. Or you can decide to display it just on one particular page. So down here it says static pages, easier pages. There's only four on this website here. So also we only wanna show this box here. Let's say it was a call to action box. We only want this to display on that one page. So only display on the front on that one page and no other pages. How useful is that? Yep. Who knew Jetpack could do that? So that was the primary feature that I installed Jetpack for was that alone. But I discovered all these other cool things along the way as well too. So let's get back to the Jetpack settings. The other thing you can do is if you're at a word camp like this and someone's talking, you think, geez, that'd make a good blog post. You can pull out your phone and you can create a blog post by sending an email to your website. And it will do that. So here you can create a website address that you can save into your phone or into some other application and you can create an email, send that to your website and it will create a draft post right in your post on your website. And this one here enables the wordpress.com toolbar. If you have a look up the top here, you can see that this here is your wordpress.com website. If you tick on my site, so that'll take you through to the wordpress.com dashboard, which we'll show you, which you can do a whole lot more things. Turn it off, you just get your normal toolbar appearing back up the top again that you'll be familiar with. So if you're managing multiple, like if you're managing a single site, you may not turn that on, but if you're managing multiple sites, then this is a good way to toggle back to your wordpress.com and manage a whole lot of sites from there. So some features here for sharing. So when you tick on automatically share your posts to your social networks, you can share to, when you publish a post, it'll automatically share it to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. And all you need to do is to configure the accounts. And once you've done that, and once you've turned it on. So here, for instance, let's say we want to connect it to Facebook. You just simply connect the Facebook connect button. It'll take you through to Facebook. You log into Facebook and authorize it. And I can't remember my Facebook password, so I won't do that. So, and it will tell you, so if you've got a Facebook feed or a Facebook page, you can select which of those or all of them that it publishes those posts on for you. And you can even connect Google photos. So if you want Google photos, if you're storing your photos in Google photos and you want them to be available in your media library, you connect to Google photos, then all of your photos stored in there will be available to you in your media library. You don't actually have to re-upload them again every time you want to use them. And MailChimp as well. These are some of my photos. And you can add sharing buttons to the bottom of your website. So on the bottom of your posts, so with your sharing icons, you've got a choice of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and a whole lot more. So, and you can choose with your displays of icon, icon and text. So if you toggle through that there and just have a look above here, it, or you click changes, then nothing really changed with that, did it? So, but you can choose which buttons you want to have at the bottom of your website. So here we go. We've got Facebook and Twitter there. Let's say we want LinkedIn as well, and we can add that to the site. So this one's into the little More tab. So on the More tab, you might just want to display, say, Twitter and Facebook, and then have a More link, and then you can add all the other ones into the More link, or you can add them separately. And here down here is where you can show where those buttons display. You might want them just on posts, which is probably where you have them, or on posts and pages. If you've got custom post types, these will also display there, and you can choose to have them on custom post types too. So you don't need another plugin to do it, you can just use Jetpack. And next tab is discussion. So, you know, the comments box that sits at the bottom of your blog posts, so you can have people comment on that, or you can let them log in with word.com, and so then your comments will appear on wordpress.com, as well as appearing on your blog, and it just enables it to go a little more wider than your own blog than your own blog, and which means that in terms of your link building, you've got another link back to your website. And you can let visitors subscribe to your posts and comments by email. So what that means is they can just tick a checkbox at the bottom of the comments, or at the bottom of your blog post. Every time someone leaves a comment, which is the second one here, they'll be notified every time someone leaves a comment. So for instance, if they've left a comment on there, and they wanna follow a thread through, if someone replies the comment, or adds another comment to it, then they'll get an email notification every time. So good for activity on your blog, and keeping active, and keeping discussion going. Oh, look at this, you can even give your email followers. And I've got no one, because I only set the site up two weeks ago. So, but all of your subscribers would appear here. Every time someone subscribes, this is where they'll appear. And I think we're almost at the end of all the settings. There's one more to go, and that's your traffic. And this one's a really good one as well too. So related posts, you can add at the bottom of your blog post, you can create a section like this one here, at the bottom of your blog post. So once people have finished reading, then they can find other relevant blog posts that are like that. And this would just automatically generate relevant ones based on your categories and tags. So you can't set which ones they are, it's just an algorithm that will choose three that are most relevant. So hopefully that keeps your people on your site longer because they'll keep reading. You can, if you haven't got any SEO plugins in there, you can generate an XML sitemap, which is what Google needs for webmaster tools or search console. So all you need to do is click, switch it on. Now you've got XML sitemaps. And if you want to see what it looks like, just click on these links here and you'll be able to see your sitemap. You can also verify, so you know how Google wants to verify your ownership of the website before you can add things like Google Analytics and Google Code, you can actually just put your verification codes in here. So you can either click Google to take it through to Google login and get your verification, or you can do it manually. So that's all in the dashboard here. You don't need to install another plugin or you don't have to go through to your files via PHP to then insert a file there to do the verification. You can do it right from the dashboard with Jetpack. Oh, and this one's good too. So if you've got a blog post with a URL that's, if it's that long, you can, just by switching on generate shortened URLs for simple sharing, you can get a URL that's that long, which will go to the page. So you don't need to use Bitly or some of those other shortening links. You've got that right in your website, just by switching on this generated shortened URLs for simpler sharing. There's a lot of features, isn't there? Yeah. So that's just Jetpack. So have a play, have a look. There are some more features in it, but those are the key ones that are in Jetpack. Here's some other things you can do with WordPress.com as well. So we go back to the slides. Acquisit, who gets spam? So Acquisit is WordPress's plugin for preventing spam. So you'll see if you go down into your plugins here, Acquisit is automatically there. All you do is just activate it. So it's there with every install. Once you've activated, you've got a button that says set up your Acquisit account and all you simply do is connect with Jetpack. So once you've got Jetpack installed, you can install your spam security with Acquisit. And you're done. How easy is that? Now you're protected. Let's just save it. The one thing I do is I generally, you've got an option here of silently discarding the worst and most pervasive spam. Or if you really want to see what spam is saying, just put it in another folder so you can read it when you've got time. So there's your Acquisit. And what else have we got? Gravatar. So you know how sometimes you've got to upload a photo to various sites to put all your details in, upload a photo all over the place. Gravatar is this great site that will allow you to... Let's just pop this on slide. It'll allow you to automatically play. Here we go. Here's Gravatar. Look at this. You can sign into Gravatar with WordPress.com. So once you've signed in, so see, because I was already signed into WordPress.com, it just automatically opens up the Gravatar dashboard. Great thing about Gravatar is all of the email addresses you use for commenting or blogging or whatever you're using for, you can add them all in here and you can upload a photo for each one of your email addresses. So for instance, I've got some personal... I use my personal email addresses for some sites. I use my business email address for other sites. So you may want to have a more professional photo for your business sites and you may want a different photo, a less professional photo with a cat on your shoulder for non... Just for personal sites. So you can do that. And as soon as you do that, there are a whole lot of web applications out there that use that. So here's Zapier, for instance. I use Zapier. You'll see that same photo is already up there. And if I go through to my profile down here, you'll see that here it is. We use Gravatar service to associate it with Zapier. So it's not just WordPress that you use. It's what you use for all blogs. So we use that email address if you're commenting plus service services like Zapier. Next thing is WooCommerce. If you've got a WordPress.com login, WooCommerce uses the same one as well. So you can log in to WooCommerce.com, download WooCommerce into your website and connect it into your website. And once you've connected it, WooCommerce extensions, a lot of those are available from within your WordPress dashboard where you can click on it, go directly to the landing page, buy it and install it into your website. The other thing you've got is a mobile app. Who knew that you had a mobile app for WordPress? Couple of people. So if you go to WordPress.com, just search for apps. You can download an app for your phone where you can manage your website on your phone. In fact, manage all of the websites you're managing. You can do that on your phone. And there's also a desktop version of it as well too. And what the desktop version is, is just really a replica of your WordPress.com dashboard. So it's this here. So it's a replica of that there. And in here, you need to explore in here because what you also get is stats on your website. So instead of going to Google Analytics, you can have this all in your WordPress.com dashboard and on your actual website dashboard as well too. So it's all there. Now you can create blog posts from the app or from in here, you can install plugins. You can update plugins. So you can have a look at plugins in the repository. And you can set it to actually update an auto update, plugins that you choose, or you can unselect some and not auto update it. So you can keep on top of your updates without having to go back into your website. And you can also do things like manage subscribers on your website. People have got access to it. You can add or remove our admins and editors. You can edit your site. You can change themes. So from within your WordPress.com dashboard and the app there, you can create a post from in there. Or if you've emailed a post to the dashboard, you can come and log into your mobile app and you can edit it, approve it, add an image to it all from the app. So it's ready just for on the go. Simple notes, did you know? WordPress.com will let you log into a site with simple notes. It's a bit like an application like Evernote or similar. So if we click on simple notes, and here's simple notes, you've got create an account or sign in. And you'll notice if you hit sign in, you can log in with WordPress.com. So simple notes, an app that you've got on your phone or on your computer. And you can use it just to take some quick notes. So if you're out and about and you get some inspiration and you want to write about it, then you can just keep it in simple notes here. Okay, it's probably not going to work. Is it? Yeah, here we go. All right, so we're in. And so now you can just create a note. So it's simple as clicking the plus, new note, and you can just start writing. So it's a bit like, you know, if I'm a Mac user, got notes on Mac, this is just another form of that there which is online for you. The next one is crowd signal. If you wanted polls and surveys on your site, there's a site called crowd signal, which you can also log into with your WordPress.com site because automatic is behind crowd signal as well. So see down in the bottom, was it right or left depending whether you're looking at the screen or I'm sort of here. There's a poll down there. That's what the poll looks like. So you can embed that onto your site. And coming soon, yet there's more. Did you know that automatic has now bought a plugin called zero BS CRM. So it allows you to have a CRM like a MailChimp or an Entropod or a drip inside your WordPress dashboard. So it's a pretty powerful plugin. I've had a bit of a play with it. So if you need a CRM and you don't want to splash out for one of the third party services, you can run something like that inside your website. And word on the street is that maybe this will be able to be used or Jetpack's going to roll it into its offering and you'll be able to use your WordPress.com login to log into it. And if Jetpack takes it on, it'll be available inside your dashboard. How cool is that, eh? Anyone here have a site called Tumblr? Yeah, guess who owns it? Automatic. So they acquired Tumblr, another blogging platform. At the moment, you can't log into it with WordPress.com. Who knows? I'm not sure whether you will at some stage. I don't know what their plans are, but maybe at some stage you'll be able to use Tumblr as well as WordPress. And the last thing that you can use your WordPress.com login for is WordPress.tv. So in all the presentations we've been having here this weekend, they will go up to WordPress.tv. So you can go to WordPress.tv, log in with your WordPress.com login, and all of the learning you need to know about WordPress, it's all gonna be available for you there. And it is now. And that's it. That's all I've got for you. That's how to supercharge your website using WordPress.com. And if you do wanna get hold of me or follow me, just go to nickkree.me, everything's there. That's fantastic. Thank you very much, Nick. Comprehensiveguidedwordpress.com. So definitely have a look at that if you've got your normal website. Use Jetpack and connect it through. So yeah, a big round of applause for Nick, please.