Introducing Jetpack: Powering Your WordPress.com Site

No matter what type of website you want to build, WordPress.com has all the tools you need to build your online home.

Many of these features are powered by Jetpack, a multi-purpose plugin that provides WordPress sites with a suite of essential tools for site security, performance, and more. It’s included with every WordPress.com site (even sites on our Free plan). For self-hosted sites, Jetpack tools are also available on a subscription basis, with bundled and a la carte options.

Jetpack gives WordPress.com a lot of value. This ensures your site performs well so you can build and create with confidence. But what exactly does Jetpack do and why should you care? Let’s take a look at some of the ways Jetpack can give your WordPress.com site superpowers.

What’s in the Jetpack toolbox?

Jetpack offers tools in four categories to meet your website needs: security, performance, growth, and management. Many of these tools are included with free WordPress.com websites, with additional tools unlocked at higher plan tiers.

Jetpack Statistics: Understand what your readers like

Free; more features unlocked in Personal and later

Use Jetpack Stats to see at a glance how your website is performing, including how many visitors are on your site and what content is performing best. Quickly see where your traffic is coming from to better optimize your marketing and partnership strategies. Jetpack is fully GDPR compliant so you can track visitor metrics with confidence.

To access your free statistics, navigate to the “Statistics” tab in WP Admin. For more information about your website trends and insights to improve your website performance, upgrade to Premium.

Jetpack Social: Share in an instant

Free and higher

Gone are the days of logging into every social platform to share your latest blog post with your followers. Jetpack Social lets you preview and share your content across major platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Mastodon, and Threads – with just one click from within the WordPress Editor.

Jetpack Social also lets you automatically place quick share buttons on your posts, allowing your visitors to share their favorite content with their community, expanding the reach of your content.

Activity Log: Keep an eye on every move

Free; Additional features unlocked at Premium and higher

With Activity Log, you always have a high-level view of changes and actions taken across your site, from comments to new posts to downloads. Whether you have a large team of content creators or are trying to find the source of a pesky bug, activity logs offer transparency and accountability for every website change.

Free users have access to the latest 20 website updates. Upgrade to a paid plan to see full site activity during your plan’s data retention period.

AI Assistant: Your creative copilot

Free and up (limit 20 requests on Free plan, unlimited on paid plans)

With a suite of AI-assisted tools, creating engaging content for your website has never been easier. Jetpack AI Assistant can help you quickly generate AI-generated text, lists, tables, and images. AI can also help you edit existing content, highlight readability challenges, identify color changes, and suggest wording and image updates to optimize user engagement on each page.

Jetpack Blocks: Add lots of functionality to your site

Free and higher

Blocks make it easy to create pages and add functionality to your site’s content. Jetpack gives WordPress.com sites several blocks that let you embed content, add monetization options, customize forms, and more. Here’s a look at all the things you can do with Jetpack-powered blocks:

Akismet Anti-Spam: Keep your site clean

Free and higher

Spam can hit your site faster than you can say “where’s the firewall?” however Akismet Anti-spam offers professional level defense. Using advanced machine learning, Akismet can filter out 99.99% of spam in user-submitted text, including spam comments, bot form responses, and fake leads, keeping your site and CRM looking pristine and professional.

Akismet Anti-spam can be found in the Jetpack section of WP Admin. From there, you can monitor how much spam has been blocked across your site and choose whether you want to automatically review or delete potential spam messages.

Jetpack Newsletter: Jump from post to inbox

Free and higher

You no longer need a separate platform to get your content into people’s inboxes: Jetpack Newsletter lets you convert blogs to emails directly from the post-publication page. Jetpack offers tools to support your newsletter from start to finish, from collecting subscribers on your website to sending and tracking your newsletter performance – all from within WordPress.com. Already have a dedicated following? Simply import your existing customer list to get started.

VaultPress Backup: Your site’s safety net

Business Plan and above

Accidentally broke your site with a new plugin? Fear not: VaultPress Backup has you covered. With daily backups and incremental backups created every time you make an edit, it ensures your website is crisis-proof.

To enable backup, simply navigate to the Jetpack tab in your WordPress Admin and select “Backup.”

Once VaultPress Backup is enabled, it will automatically create daily backups of your site and backups after each change, with multiple copies securely stored in the cloud. If you want to revert to a previous version of the site, click the date arrow to navigate to the date you want to revert to. Click the “Restore to this point” button to restore your site with just one click.

Jetpack Search: Ctrl-F your content

Business and above

Do you have a large website with a lot of content? Help your visitors find what they’re looking for quickly by enabling Jetpack Search. You can enable Jetpack Search and filtering with just one click in the Jetpack tab in WP Admin. Jetpack will automatically index all your site content and offer flexible design options to suit your brand.

For eCommerce sites, this is invaluable: research shows that people are 2x more likely to buy something when searching compared to standard browsing.

SEO Tools: Rank up in search

Business and above

Help new users find your site with Search Engine Optimization, which helps your website rank on popular search engines like Google. With the Jetpack SEO tools in WordPress.com’s Business plan and above, you can control title tags and meta descriptions to ensure your site is optimized for search.

You don’t need to be an expert to use Jetpack SEO: Jetpack will notify you if your text exceeds the recommended character count limits to ensure your metadata looks good in search engine results.

Additional Plugins from Jetpack

Business plan users and above can install additional plugins to their websites. Let’s take a look at two top-tier plugins the Jetpack team offers to further expand your site’s capabilities.

Jetpack Boost: Make a jump to light speed

Paid plugin

Speed ​​matters: even a one-second delay in website loading time can cause a 20% drop in website conversions, and a slow site causes users the stress equivalent of watching a horror movie or taking a math test. With Jetpack Boost, you can get suggestions for optimizing your website and give your website a relative speed score. Boost will also optimize your code for extremely fast response times, no developer required.

With Jetpack, you can be sure you’re getting the best: Boost beats the top 5 WP performance plugins in hands-on testing.

Jetpack CRM: Know your customer

Paid plugin

For a simple, fully integrated CRM, try Jetpack CRM (formerly known as Zero BS CRM). Jetpack CRM lets you easily manage your customers and website visitors, ensuring you never lose a contact or sale. With integrations for WooCommerce, Paypal, Stripe, Gravity Forms, and more, you can ensure all your sales data and operations are at your fingertips. Unlike complex CRM platforms, Jetpack CRM keeps things simple so you can run your business with ease.

Ready to take off?

With Jetpack installed on every WordPress.com site, you get the best-in-class tools to help build and grow your site, no matter which plan you choose. It’s that special ingredient that helps make WordPress.com the best place to host your website (in our biased opinion). Sign up to create your first website today or upgrade your existing plan to access everything Jetpack has to offer.