JetPack Wordpress plugin review

How many of you have tried hundreds of plugins on your blog? Moreover, we all know how fast free WordPress.com blogs are. The company behind WordPress is “Automattic”, a great plugin for their self hosted WordPress blogs, JetPack, which brings many features of WordPress.com to our blog.


When he launched JetPack, he also gave some official words along with its release, whose Hindi translation is as follows:

Jetpack which is a plugin by Automattic, people who are not on wordpress.com but can now access the features of wordpress.com. Jetpack also provides some convenience features that do not use the cloud, but are now easy to install, or were not previously available as plugins.

JetPack is a very featureful and powerful plugin whose rankings on the official plugin repo of WordPress are as per the screenshot below:


Now let me explain the features that JetPack plugin brings to your blog:

Features of Jetpack WordPress Plugin

  1. WordPress.com stats: Now you can easily know how much traffic is coming to your blog and many more information related to it such as sources of traffic, clicks on your blog and search engine searches etc. You can also know, and all this from your Dashboard. 
  2. Subscriptions: This is a great feature of this plugin. You can manage email subscribers for your blog through this and send them email updates regularly whenever you publish a new blog post. All you have to do is to enable it and set its subscription widget on your blog. You will also get complete information about your subscribers. 
  3. Mobile Theme: Nowadays many users of the internet are mobile users, so it is very important that your site or blog is mobile friendly. Anyway, mobile friendly sites get more benefit in search engine traffic. By using Jetpack, you can make your blog or website mobile friendly with one click. Isn't this funny? 
  4. Website Uptime Monitor: No one will like that his blog or website is down and there is a traffic loss. Even if there is ever a downfall, at least if we come to know on time, then we can take necessary actions. You can do this by using the website uptime monitoring option of this plugin. This plugin will monitor your site and whenever your website is down, you will be sent a notification via email immediately. 
  5. JetPack comments: This is a fun feature of this plugin. You can replace the default commenting system of your WordPress with this. Its specialty is that your blog readers will be able to comment easily using their social networking accounts. 
  6. Auto Publicize: We know that after publishing a blog post, its sharing and promotion is very important. By using this plugin, you can auto publicize your blog posts on social networks and save your precious time.
Similarly Jetpack offers 30+ small and big features which I have briefly defined below: 
  1. Photon: Using this, you can host your blog's images on WordPress' CDN network for free!
  2. Protect: You can protect your blog or website from hacking attacks by using this feature. 
  3. Single Sign On: Secure your user authentication. 
  4. VaultPress: This is a paid feature that lets you do backup and security scans.
  5. Sharing: By using this, your blog readers can easily share your content.
  6. Related Posts: Show related blog posts below your blog posts
  7. Beautiful Math: Beautifully display mathematical equations on your blog. 
  8. Contact Form: Make use and user-friendly by adding a contact form to your blog. 
  9. Custom Content Type: Organize the content of your blog in different ways!
  10. Enhanced Distribution: This feature automatically helps in popularizing the content of your blog and increasing your page views.
Below I have given a screenshot of all the features of Jetpack plugin, you install this plugin and explore yourself. 



Similarly, there are many more features in this plugin and many more will keep coming in the upcoming updates. So if you run a self hosted WordPress blog then don't forget to install this awesome plugin!