Now that WordPress.com users are starting to get more features that previously were only available to WordPress.org blogs like premium themes, it’s now WordPress.org blogs turn to get features that were previously only available to WordPress.com users.
How? This is all made possible by Jetpack, a plugin released by Automattic last week that brings WordPress.com features and functionality to WordPress.org or self-hosted WordPress users.
Here’s an excerpt of Matt Mullenweg’s post on the Jetpack blog:
Today we’re launching the first version of what’s been a dream of mine for several years now, really since my State of the Word presentation in 2009: a way to provide feature parity between WordPress.com and WordPress.org for everybody.
Our users have been banging down the door for this. Every time we launch something new on WP.com the first question is always asking how people can get it for their self-hosted blog. Now you can have your cake and eat it too — host your own blog, completely under your control and with the freedom of the GPL, and still get all the cloud goodies of our hosted service. It’s the best of both worlds, the decentralized and the centralized, the control and the convenience, the peanut butter and the chocolate.
For the initial launch, Jetpack will include eight of the most-requested features –
- Gravatar Hovercards: Find out who’s commenting on your posts with enhanced information for Gravatars (includes full name, bio, other web profiles).
- WordPress.com Stats: Keep on top of your traffic with powerful and simple to understand statistics for your site.
- Twitter Widget: Keep your readers more up to date by syncing your tweets to your site via a simple widget.
- Shortcodes: Quickly add movies, images, and more to your posts and pages with a single line of code.
- Shortlinks: Automatically creates an easy to copy/paste mini-url for any post on your site.
- LaTeX: Use the famous markup language to quickly create beautiful mathematical expressions and equations.
- Sharedaddy: Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks.
- After the Deadline: Your writing will improve thanks to this artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker.
Personally, I haven’t tried Jetpack here on JaypeeOnline but am planning to do so one of these days. Anyways, kudos to Matt Mullenweg and the rest of the WordPress team for creating and releasing Jetpack so self-hosted WordPress users like me can use WordPress.com features on our blogs.
Download Jetpack and supercharge your self hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.
Anyone here who’s installed Jetpack into their self-hosted WordPress blog? Which initial feature do you like the most? What other feature/s would you like to see added to Jetpack? Please share your thoughts.
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March 24th, 2011 at 2:45 AM
HI jaypee, just heard about the iPad-ify plugin just released by WordPress and Onswipe
http://www.eripplescebu.com/20.....-ipad.html
March 17th, 2011 at 7:25 PM
@sylv3rblade – Yeah, I guess so. It doesn’t work anymore coz it’s now part of Jetpack. :)
March 17th, 2011 at 7:24 PM
Aha, so this is why the WP-stats plugin got borked.
March 17th, 2011 at 5:55 AM
@Novell – Haven’t tried it yet as I’m making sure that everything is compatible first. Heard that there are some compatibility issues. :)
March 17th, 2011 at 5:54 AM
My personal favorite is the shortlinks!