by Sarah Gooding | Sep 4, 2019 | jetpack, News, Plugins, Toolbelt, Wordpress Resources
WordPress theme and plugin developer Ben Gillbanks is building a Jetpack alternative with an emphasis on speed, simplicity, and privacy. Toolbelt is a new, lightweight plugin that offers a collection of functionality that is commonly-used on WordPress sites. Currently...
by Sarah Gooding | Aug 8, 2019 | jetpack, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Jetpack 7.6 was released this week with several improvements to the plugin’s AMP compatibility. Automattic was one of the earliest publishing partners on Google’s AMP project, as well as the original author of the official AMP plugin for WordPress. This...
by Sarah Gooding | Oct 5, 2017 | elasticsearch, jetpack, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources, wordpress.com vip
Jetpack 5.4 was released yesterday with many small enhancements to existing modules and an expansion of features for users on the paid plans. A new date picker field is available for the Contact Form, allowing administrators to request additional information such as...
by Sarah Gooding | Mar 21, 2017 | automattic, jetpack, News, theme review team, Themes, Wordpress Resources, wordpress.com
Today Jetpack announced that its users now have access to a collection of 165 free themes from WordPress.com. Jetpack users can browse, preview, and activate themes by visiting the WordPress.com Theme Showcase. WordPress.com has also added the ability for Jetpack...
by Sarah Gooding | Nov 19, 2016 | customizer, godaddy, jetpack, News, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
photo credit: Luis LlerenaWordPress now powers 27.1% of all websites on the internet, up from 25% last year. While it may seem that WordPress is neatly adding 2% of the internet every year, its percentage increase fluctuates from year to year and the climb is getting...
by Jeff Chandler | Nov 4, 2016 | CSS, customizer, editor, jetpack, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
WordPress 4.7 is a little more than a month away and is going to be packed with new features and improvements. In particular, five feature projects related to the customizer were approved for merge and will be part of the release. One of the feature projects is the...
