JetPack.. The don'ts and don'ts
Hello fellow WA'ers,
I wanted to write a quick blog about the virtues of using the JetPack Plugin....
In short there are none! I installed it and it started messing with my site straight away, in that my site could no longer accept comments as the captcha box had disappeared so no one was able to post a comment to my site!
I asked about how to fix it on the chat and got this response from @Rich:
"@RICH.
@GregRobs It's 14-in-1 useless rubbish that puts a massive overhead on your site. Most people only use it for "stat-watching". If you run P3http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/p3-profiler/you'll see. It makes endless calls toWordPress.COM Ditch it!!"
So I deleted it and everything was good again! RIch also posted this on chat:
"@GregRobs I've deleted it at least a couple of times via FTP last month after it locked up people's sites so they couldn't log in. However, one of them was a siterubix so they had to start over. It's a NIGHTMARE!!! :)"
So for anyone thinking of using this plugin...In short don't, you'll be wasting your time and if you're using a siterubix site you will lose your stuff and will have to start again!
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I guess I'm one of the few that love this plugin. Don't get me wrong wrong, it has its bugs and it is "heavy" Anytime I have a conflict I seem to be able to fix it though. I actually use this plugin on all my sites as well as my client's. Thats a total of six sites, half of which get over 15,000 monthly visitors.
I absolutely can't live without jetpack. I know it has its problems, as I said. But I also think some of them are more prominent with certain themes and definitely depends on other plugins. I'm pretty confident it doesn't play well with Yoast SEO, but I never use that one.
To each their own I guess!! ;-)
But for me anything that gives me a headache has got to go, I'm all for the easy life!!
Hey Chris. I saw you mention this post and JetPack in your video here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/rock-the-boat I'm curious, what is it about JetPack that you "can't live without"?! :) Rich.
Rich I'm actually writing a post called why I love jetpack. I really do have lots of reason I like it. I started it a while back and after this post it made want to finish it. But, you'll see even on my blog where I have it as one of my top 3 plugins. Everytime I try to leave it, I find another reason that I've been using it so long.
I have several sites where that POS was installed (some webhosts install it automatically with WordPress) and actually disabled many of those websites. Once I manually deleted the plug in via FTP, my sites came back.
I have heard nothing but bad things about this plug in! In addition to all the problems you mentioned, it also makes a site load slower!
Hey Tommy, yeah, I think Rich was getting a bit frustrated at hearing about this awful plugin, he's been helping others fix their sites after they installed it and asked that I write a short post to hopefully warn other not to make the same mistakes!
Thanks Beverly, I was asked by Rich to post a blog, as he's had to help out a few people to fix their sites. Reckon it's a common enough problem to write a quick post to help others before it becomes a problem for them too!
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Hi Greg I use Jetpack on all my sites, only for one reason and that's the setup for the comments, with name, email and a place for visitors to place their URL in. Anyone tell me where I can replace that feature ?
You don't need JetPack for that. It's a core part of WordPress. Just look in Settings > Discussion. You can control which Posts and Pages that comments appear on by editing the Page or Post, clicking on Screen Options (top far right of the browser window) and ticking Comments & Discussions. You'll then find options to control this underneath the Editor window on a Page and Post basis. :) Rich.
The main use I have for jetpack is the contact form. If I could find a contact form that was as easy to implement, I would probably switch
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-add-a-contact-form-to-wordpress :) R.