Jetpack 4.1 is here, and it’s packed with performance improvements, new features, improvements to existing features, and bug fixes!
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Jetpack 4.1: Secure Sign On Improvements, Two New Sharing Buttons, and More
Announcing: developer.jetpack.com
Do you use hooks to customize Jetpack’s default behaviour? Are you a fan of our Hook of the Month series? Then you’ll love our new code reference!
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Hook of the Month: Customize Modules, Shortcodes, and Widgets
Whether you’re a blogger, a business owner, or a developer – Jetpack comes with many different features you can use to build your site, write your posts, and promote them. However, you may not use all of these features. This month, we’ll discover how to use filters to customize the list of features added by Jetpack.
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Use filters to customize the Jetpack features available on your site
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Tagged code, filters, Hook Of The Month, hooks, Shortcodes, Widgets
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Hook of the Month: Customizing Sharing Buttons
Jetpack’s sharing buttons look good, are simple to use, and include several hooks allowing you to customize every single aspect of the module. Let’s learn to use some of these hooks together!
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Tagged code, filters, Hook Of The Month, hooks, sharing
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Hook of the Month: Customizing Contact Forms
Did you know you could create contact forms with Jetpack? This month, we’ll discover different ways to customize these forms on your site.
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Tagged code, Contact form, filters, Hook Of The Month, hooks
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Jetpack 3.9.2: Maintenance and Security Release
Jetpack 3.9.2 is now available for download. We’ve added two security updates as well as several bug fixes and enhancements. We recommend that you update your sites to the latest version as soon as possible.
Security updates
- Beautiful Math: there was a potential XSS vulnerability when parsing LaTeX markup within HTML elements. The issue was discovered and fixed by our security team.
- Contact Form: private site credentials could be saved in plain text in WordPress’ postmeta table when said credentials were set to be stored in Environment variables. The issue was discovered by Oliver Liu.
Other minor fixes
This release also includes other bug fixes:
- Nova Menus: fixed notices as well as issues when adding menu items in bulk.
- Publicize: Authors can now access their Publicize settings again.
- Publicize: fixed problems for Australian and Canadian English sites using Publicize to send their posts to Facebook.
- Embeds: it is now possible to embed Instagram posts using a
wwwin the URL. - Widget Visibility: fixed an issue appearing when a page title matched an existing page ID.
- And many more updates, listed in the changelog.
Enhancements
We added 2 new oEmbed providers, Codepen and Sketchfab. Just paste a URL in your post editor, and enjoy! Here’s a Codepen example:
We also added new filters to allow you to customize the Contact Info widget, define custom patterns to be ignored by Jetpack Markdown, or change the heading of the Related Posts.
Finally, we created a [jetpack_top_posts_widget] shortcode to allow you to display the Top Posts & Pages Widget anywhere on your site.
Staging Mode
Do you use a backup / cloning plugin to clone your production site to a staging environment? Starting with Jetpack 3.9.2, you can use a constant or a filter to flag a site as “Staging site”, thus avoid conflicts and synchronization issues with Jetpack.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to 3.9.2:
Alex Kirk, Allen Snook, Andrew Duthie, Barry Abrahamson, Ben Lowery, Bob Ralian, Brandon Kraft, Chris Rosser, Christopher Finke, Claus Colloseus, Crystal Barton, Dan Walmsley, Daryl L. L. Houston, Derek Smart, Elio Rivero, Enej Bajgoric, Eric Binnion, Gregory Cornelius, Igor Zinovyev, James Nylen, Jenia Laszlo, Jeremy Herve, Joey Kudish, Jorge Bernal, Justin Shreve, Kat Hagan, Konstantin Kovshenin, Lance Willett, Mahangu Weerasinghe, Marcus Kazmierczak, Matt Wiebe, Miguel Lezama, Mike Adams, Mo Jangda, Payton Swick, Rocco Tripaldi, Sam Hotchkiss, Sendhil Panchadsaram, Stephen Edgar, Timmy Crawford, and Veselin Nikolov.
Hook of the Month: taking control of email subscriptions
Are you familiar with Jetpack Subscriptions? This month, we’ll use filters to customize this module, and control which posts should be sent to your subscribers.
Jetpack’s Subscriptions module sends an email to your subscribers every time you publish a new post. That’s practical, but sometimes you may not want to bother your subscribers for something that might not be interesting to them.
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Jetpack 3.9 — Sitemaps, a new Skype Sharing Button, and More
With the release of Jetpack 3.9, we’re introducing a brand new module, as well as a lot of improvements for several existing Jetpack modules.
Jetpack’s new Sitemaps Module
Jetpack already includes features like Subscriptions and Publicize, to let your readers know whenever you publish a new post on your site. You can now let Search Engines know, too!
What are sitemaps? Sitemaps are files that list each post and page that should be indexed by search engines like Google or Bing.
Once this new module is activated, two sitemaps will be created: a generic sitemap, available at yoursitename.com/sitemap.xml, as well as a News Sitemap, available at yoursitename.com/news-sitemap.xml. The News sitemap is useful if you want your posts to appear in Google News.
You can learn more about this new module here.
A new Skype Sharing Button
Now that Skype offers a Skype button, we’ve added it to Jetpack’s Sharing module. To add it to your site, head over to Settings > Sharing in your dashboard, and drag the new Skype button to your list of sharing buttons.
Social Menu
Social Menu is a new tool that is available for all theme developers. It allows site owners to create a new menu location which is used to display links to Social Media Profiles.
To learn how to add Social Menu support to your theme, you can follow the instructions on our support page.
And More…
This release also adds its fair share of improvements to existing modules, as well as bug fixes:
- Added new options to allow management of users on your site directly from WordPress.com or from the WordPress.com Desktop app.
- Made several changes to Photon to improve compatibility with WordPress 4.4. Custom image sizes are handled better now and all responsive image sizes will be properly displayed when using the Photon module.
- Photon is now enabled by default on sites using HTTPS. You don’t need to use a filter to enjoy Photon on your HTTPS site anymore!
- Added support for Wistia oEmbeds.
- Fixed some issues with long album and track IDs in the BandCamp shortcode. Also added support for two new parameters:
tracksandesig. - And a lot more! You can check the full changelog here.
Once again, a big thank you to all Jetpack Contributors:
Alex Shiels, Andrew Duthie, Andrew Ozz, Andy Peatling, Biser Perchinkov, Brandon Kraft, Dan Robert, Derek Smart, Dion Hulse, Miguel Polfliet, Eduardo Reveles, Elio Rivero, Eric Binnion, George Stephanis, Hiroshi Urabe, Igor Zinovyev, Jeff Golenski, Jennifer M. Dodd, Jeremy Herve, Jesse Friedman, Joen Asmussen, Joey Kudish, Jonathan Sadowski, Joseph Scott, Justin Shreve, Kat Hagan, Kelly Dwan, Lance Willett, Matt Wiebe, Michael Cain, Miguel Lezama, Rachel Baker, Richard Muscat, Rocco Tripaldi, Sam Hotchkiss, Scott Grant, Steve Seear, Stéphane Boisvert, Takashi Irie, Thomas Guillot, and Xiao Yu.
Hook of the Month: Customizing the Top Posts & Pages Widget
Let’s kick off 2016 with a new series: welcome to the first installment of Hook of the Month!
Hooks are places in WordPress code where you can add your own code or change the default behavior of WordPress. Jetpack includes many of those hooks — 430 at the time of writing. In this series, I’ll introduce you to a new hook every month.
Today, let’s look at hooks help you customize one of our most popular widgets, the Top Posts & Pages widget.
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Jetpack users: Publish from your desktop with the WordPress.com app for Mac!
Great news for Jetpack users! With the release of the new WordPress.com, there are some exciting improvements for Jetpack users, too!
The Jetpack plugin now gives your self-hosted sites access to the new WordPress.com publishing and site-building tools — and the brand new WordPress.com app for Mac, along with a host of features to speed up, secure, and simplify site administration like automatic backups and plugin auto-updating.
Use the desktop app to focus on your content and design with no other browser tabs to distract you, or to keep your sites sidelined but accessible. Build your site anywhere, in whatever way helps you get your best work done: the app is powered by the same technology that runs WordPress.com, creating a seamless experience for publishing and browsing whether you’re in a browser, a mobile app, or the desktop!
(Windows and Linux users, we haven’t forgotten you! Visit the download page and sign up to be notified when your apps are available.)
View the video below to see the improvements and an introduction to the new WordPress.com app for Mac:
To make sure you can take full advantage of the multisite management and publishing capabilities via the WordPress.com interface and the new WordPress.com app for Mac, turn on Jetpack Manage to enable site management in your plugin settings.
Learn more about the new WordPress.com and the WordPress.com app for Mac, the technologies underlying the new WordPress.com and the process of building it, or read what our CEO has to say about the changes.Â
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