8. All About Jetpack Settings

In This Chapter

• Setting up the Jetpack plugin

• Using some of the most popular Jetpack functions

Jetpack from Automattic is a plugin designed to allow DIY WordPress users to have many of the same features found on WordPress.com—all built in to one plugin. This makes Jetpack very powerful, very complex, and, potentially, something that could slow down your site. Remember, all plugins come with a cost. Every plugin you install requires server resources to run. Using a lot of plugins might not only use more resources than your web host allocated to you (and believe me, your host will let you know when that happens), but your website might load a lot slower than you’d like. This is what makes Jetpack a very interesting ...

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