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JetPack WordPress Plugin

A couple of days back, I noticed that my WordPress.com stats plugin was not working, and I really like that plugin. I am using it to check all blogs stats from inside the WordPress dashboard, and it’s not making any load on the server as it’s hosted byAutomattic. It’s really useful stats system.

Usually, if there is a problem in Automattic’s stats system, they solve it on the same day or at the latest, the next day! So,I searched for a solution for the problem trying to it make work again. I discovered that all my sites were dropped from the system!

Now WHAT?!

After looking around, I found out that there is a new plugin called Jet Pack which is powered by WordPress.com, and it allows you to use the Automattic stats system for self hosted blogs and much more!

Find out all about it in WordPress.com blog.

This is my favorite one, because I want to see this:

 

FamousBloggers WordPress.com stats
FamousBloggers WordPress.com stats

You can use other features like:

  • WordPress.com Stats
  • Twitter Widget
  • Gravatar Hovercards
  • WP.me Shortlinks
  • Sharedaddy
  • LaTeX
  • After the Deadline
  • Shortcode Embeds

The good news is those features area available for free, but it seems that there are some other premium features on the way!

JetPAck plugin is Amazing!

jetpack for wordpress

Jetpack supercharges your self hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Try Jetpack!

It’s really nice to use the WordPress.com Stats in a different way. If you have a WordPress.com blog, you will know what I mean! Oh! It requires an account on WordPress.com; you must get one to enable the plugin. Check out Jetpack!

Enjoy!

 

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  1. Jon says:
    I had Jetpack installed and was enjoying it, but today ran some speed tests and the stats part cause the page to fail to load. I liked the offerings of Jetpack but not that it is a case of all or nothing, so it had to be deactivated.
  2. Rose says:
    Hi Hesham,If WP state plugin not working then make sure that you didn't lose wp_footer function from your footer by accident. Regarding Jetpack, I see it on my new blog but didn't check what it can do. Thank you for sharing. ;)
  3. Sonia says:
    Jet Pack is great. The same thing happened to me and it was suggested to check out Jet Pack. I haven't looked back and haven't had any problems. I wish I saw this post before hand, but glad I know about it now! Thanks Hesham!
  4. Areej says:
    Hey Hesham, I’ve been reading about Jet Pack all over the web and your post was the only one that convinced me to give the plugin a try. Jet Pack sure does a lot! But I still like Google Analytics. I think it provides more information.
    • Hesham says:
      I agree , and I use them both!
  5. Jan Husdal says:
    Thanks for the info. Unfortunately the plugin refused to connect with wordpress.com when In tried to activate it, and I couldn't figure out why. Maybe it's a theme issue, or maybe aWordPress issue. In any case, I downloaded the plugins one by one, and that works...hmm.
    • Hesham says:
      mmm.. bad connection happen, but it should work if you try to connect again!
      • Jan Husdal says:
        Nah...must be a theme issue, since I'm using Atahualpa, an dhwen I tried a new and fresh WP Jetpack install on another directory using the default theme it went ok. Well, could be incompatible plugins also, but I haven't checked that yet.
  6. Jeevan Jacob John says:
    Hey Hesham, I did try out Jetpack. It has awesome features but my site slowed down ever since I activated it. I don't really know whether that's the reason (Maybe I have to check with Hostgator, since it has been showing message regarding server error (the usual apache page). Thank you for the info, Hesham Jeevan Jacob John
    • Hesham says:
      It should't slow your site as t runs on Automattic's servers! Anyways, I hope you are not using a lot of plugins on the blog!
  7. Tinh says:
    Nice suggestion Hesham and I have never heard about Jetpack, it is worth a try :-)
  8. Jennifer Rai says:
    I recently started using Jet Pack as well and think it is a great plugin. I would highly recommend it.
  9. Mani Viswanathan says:
    Although I don't prefer seeing stats using the WP Stats plugin, because their algo is way diff. from Analytics. But as you mentioned it is a collection of many plugins like Hovercard gravatars, Twitter Widget,etc. So will give it a try.
  10. Harsh Agrawal says:
    I have already this plugin installed and loved it since it helps me to lower down the no of plugins..
    • Hesham says:
      Same here, I would love anything that reduce plugins used on my blog!
  11. Saket Jajodia says:
    The same thing happened with me I was like now all my blog stats gone :( .. But in less then an hour I found that they have dropped this pugin and came up with a new one.. I liked some of the new featurslike : Gravatar Hovercards, Sharedaddy and Shortcode Embeds.. Waiting more for more new features..
    • Hesham says:
      By the way, the old plugin (WordPress.com stats plugin) is working again now! But I really like to use Jetpack as the stats interface and reports page are enhanced!
      • Saket Jajodia says:
        Its good that old one is working for who liked old one.. And ya, Even I liked the new one much more then old one, new one is much batter..
  12. Rojish says:
    Thanks for the post Hesham, I already started using Wordpress stats and it is doing an awesome work.
  13. techgyo says:
    Thats so cool, its a pack of so may Wordpress.com features! Its something new to me. Thanks for writing about this.
  14. Sandeep says:
    this is really cool.. from your admin dashboard you can check the stats of all your blogs? this is awesome... very helpful for webmasters who run multilple wordpress self hosted blogs. Thanks for this info..
    • Hesham says:
      Yes Sandeep, You can actually check all Stats of your blog and switch between them in your WordPress.com account! (on one page).
      • Saket Jajodia says:
        Haven't noticed this feature, just now I checked I liked this feature a lot.. Because I have many blogs and checking stats of all blogs by going to each of the blog's dashboard become hectic work, now it will be easy to check in one page.. Thanks a lot for info.. :D
  15. Thomas says:
    Hi Hesham I have never heard about Jetpack before so thank you for sharing. I am using Google Analytics for stats and I think it can do every think I need for stats. I can see that Jetpack is a lot more than just stats, so maybe I will take a look at it anyway.
    • Hesham says:
      Yes Thomas, the Jetpack dose a lot more than that, but I took what I need from it! If you had a chance to try WordPress.com stats, you would probably change your mind about using Analytics only! And by the way I use Analytics as well, but I rarely open it, once or twice a month!
  16. Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger says:
    Thanks Hesham for sharing this, now I can see my site stats easily using this plugin...
    • Hesham says:
      WordPress.com stats is really useful, I know my daily traffic, keywords that people search most to reach my blog, and some other useful information at any minute! Enjoy!
  17. Prince says:
    wonderful and useful plugin. Thanks for sharing so nice tool to view our daily efforts in the shape of our blog status in an easy and simple way. Did these types of plugins or free tools are present to preview stat of all the websites?
    • Hesham says:
      You can install it on all your wordpress blogs!
      • Prince says:
        Thanks for quick sharing & reply to users.
  18. Jitendra Singh says:
    Hi Hesham, Its really nice to read your post on WP features. Between i am a die hard fan of Microsoft Technologies and running my blog on #blogEngine, a ASP.Net blog. But the features you mentioned in the post are truly awesome and there are lots of similar tools are there in the marked which lead WP far better than any other blog.
    • Hesham says:
      WordPress is the most popular blogging platform and the biggest support community, so you really don't need to know PHP to start using it, and I highly recommend you move to WP or at lease try it on one of your coming projects!
  19. David says:
    Yeah. I just started to set up a new blog a few hours ago, and it was in the bundle of plugins installed with WP, and I became an instant fan. All the things I missed since the days I used wordpress.com are in it.
    • Wayne says:
      Yeah, they've pre-packaged it with the latest release. I find that I only wanted the Gravatar Hovercards. I'm find going to another site for my analytics, and the other stuff I don't find really useful.
      • Hesham says:
        Yeah, it seems that everyone will find something useful in this collection!