Wpwatercooler - Weekly Wordpress

Today's topic is our favorite plugin Jetpack. What is Jetpack? It’s a plugin that comes with WordPress, it’s not always automatically installed but it does require an API key in order to work. Although in some server infrastructures it is automatically installed. Boiled down, it’s basically a lot of plugins within one plugin. Jetpack has 2 main focuses. The first is to offer a lot of cloud services that are hard to do on a small shared hosting environment. The second is to offer a closer feature parity to WordPress.com so if someone has their blog on wordpress.com and they want to spin it off into a self hosted site, there are some short codes they may be missing from their content or widgets they might not have. By offering those in Jetpack, they have the ability to let their content flow in either direction. Some of the Jetpack modules: Photon – Free image CDN (content delivery network) Tiled Galleries: With Tiled Galleries you can display your image galleries in three new styles: a rectangular mosaic, a sq