Jetpack Features We Love and Use at CSS-Tricks

Jetpack Features We Love and Use at CSS-Tricks

At CSS-Tricks, we use and love Jetpack. It’s one of the most powerful WordPress plugins available, with a broad range of features that all help make running a website easier and more efficient.

Jetpack allows us to customize our website in plenty of ways, from optimizing our server settings to improving our website’s performance. We can also manage our backups and security, add ecommerce tools, track our website’s stats and much more.

Here are just some of the features we rely on most:

• Performance and SEO: Jetpack’s site accelerator, called Photon, helps speed up our website by caching images to the cloud. It also adds SEO improvements, like OpenGraph tags, which helps search engines better understand the content of our website.
• Security and Backup: Jetpack offers daily or real-time backups of our website, and also provides protection from security threats like malicious code and brute force attacks.
• Social Sharing: With Jetpack, we can easily add social sharing buttons to our posts that allow readers to easily share content to their favorite social networks.
• eCommerce: Jetpack makes it easy for us to add ecommerce functionality to our website so we can sell products and services online.
• Analytics: Jetpack gives us detailed analytics about our website's traffic so we can see where our visitors are coming from and what content they’re engaging with most.

We’re proud to be using Jetpack to power our website. And while there are a lot of great features available, these are the ones we’ve found the most useful and rely on most.