Jetpack for WordPress

Changes to the Twitter Widget

Justin Shreve — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:52:58 +0000

In Jetpack 2.2.3, released on April 26th, 2013, we introduced a new widget called the “Twitter Timeline” widget. This widget allows you to display your tweets on your blog in a much richer way then you could with the old Twitter widget. Users can retweet, favorite, and reply to you straight from your blog. The experience is also much closer to the experience of Twitter.com.

The old Twitter widget — which shipped with versions of Jetpack below 2.2.3 — will stop functioning on May 7th. This is because of some changes Twitter is making with how developers communicate with their service. Our new widget uses their timeline product which allows us to offer a solution that will continue working while providing additional features.

The old widget will gracefully stop returning output after May 7th. Any admins on your blog will receive a message asking them to switch to the new widget.

Let us know if you have any questions or what you think of the new widget in the comments below!

Jetpack 2.2.5

Joey Kudish — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:23:10 +0000

Dear Jetpack Community,

Today we released Jetpack 2.2.5. This is a minor release with a few small bug fixes:

Stats enhancement: counting of registered users’ views can now be enabled for specific roles
Security tightening for metadata support in the REST API
Minor update to the Twitter Timeline widget for future compatibility
Custom CSS: prevent a possible PHP warning, and allow the content width setting to be larger than the theme’s content width

You should update immediately via the one-click update prompt in your dashboard.

You can read the full changelog here. As always, please get in touch with us if you run into an issue. We’d be very happy to help!

Custom post type and metadata support in the REST API

Tim Moore — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:17:15 +0000

Reblogged from Developer Resources:

We've recently made some updates to the REST API which is available here on WordPress.com and for any Jetpack-enabled site that have the REST API module activated. The API now has full read and write support for custom post types and post metadata.

You can specify a post's post type when you create or edit it. If you're fetching a single post…

Urgent Bug Fix: Jetpack 2.2.4

Tim Moore — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:07:04 +0000

Dear Jetpack community,

I want to apologize, firstly, for pushing multiple updates out to you in one day. We’ve been doing our very best over the last several months to make sure that our releases are stable and tested in as many disparate environments as possible.

In this case, a bug cropped up because of an oversight in how we loaded a compatibility file for bbPress in Jetpack. It wasn’t caught in testing, which is unfortunate. This is a good example, though, of how we learn from our mistakes, improve our processes, and do better with the next release.

For those users effected by this, we decided it would be better to release Jetpack 2.2.4 as soon as possible to resolve this issue.

As always, please get in touch with us if you run into an issue. We’d be very happy to help!

Spring Has Sprung; Jetpack 2.2.3

Tim Moore — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:55:42 +0000

Hello Jetpack community,

We’ve been hard at work on Jetpack over the last couple of weeks. Since releasing version 2.2.2 (which was mainly a bug fix release), we have focused our attention on making sure that Jetpack will play nicely with WordPress 3.6 when it is released. Here are the highlights:

Yahoo! Updates API is going away, so Yahoo! has been pulled out of Publicize;
The Shortcode module now includes a Bandcamp shortcode;
The Audio flash player was removed in 2.2.2 for security reasons. We fixed the vulnerability and reenabled the flash player;
The plugin adds Infinite Scroll support to Twenty Thirteen;
With Jetpack 2.2.3, the reply-title portion of the comment form can be styled by the theme;
and many other things that you can read about in the changelog.

Keep an eye on our news feed! We will be posting some articles on how to use Jetpack-beyond-the-basics, plus some on “getting to know”-the-Jetpack-folks.

Thanks, as always, for following along with us. Here are some updated ways to get in touch:

Feel free to leave a comment on this post, following the comment guidelines.
To report a bug or send us a patch, open a Trac ticket using your WP.org forum username/password.
To ask for support help, post on the WP.org forums or send us a support request.

Jetpack 2.2.1: Now with Extra Development Mode

Tim Moore — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:01:54 +0000

Howdy Jetpackers,

We’ve put together a spring cleaning release for you today. A number of bugs have been fixed, which you can see in the changelog.

Of note is the new Development Mode in Jetpack. With this, features that do not require a connection to WordPress.com servers can be activated on a localhost WordPress installation for testing. This has been one of the most demanded features from developers; we are very happy to provide this first iteration today.

Turn on Development Mode right now by adding define( 'JETPACK_DEV_DEBUG', true); to your wp-config.php file.

Update: Alex Mills, the developer who added Development Mode, notes the following in the comments below:

A quick note: development mode automatically gets enabled if you don’t have a period in your site’s hostname, i.e. localhost. If you use a different URL, such as mycooltestsite.local or something, it is then that you will need to define the JETPACK_DEV_DEBUG constant.

Another note is the new filters for shortcodes and widgets. Jetpack loads a lot of shortcodes and widgets; until now, it was an all or nothing module. Now, you can filter the shortcodes and widgets that Jetpack loads with a mini-plugin of your own.

Use the new jetpack_shortcodes_to_include or jetpack_widgets_to_include and exclude the widgets or shortcodes that you do not want. Or include new ones!

We hope that you like the new Development Mode and other bug fixes work well for you. If you are in need of assistance, please get in touch with us on our support forums.

Jetpack 2.2: Likes

Justin Shreve — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:20:00 +0000

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the web, it’s that people really like to like things. That’s why the latest version of Jetpack introduces a “Like” feature. The new feature enables a “Like” area at the bottom of your posts and pages. A button allows your readers to show appreciation for your posts as well as save your posts for later viewing on WordPress.com using the Reader.

Once a user likes your post, their Gravatar will be displayed below your content, allowing you to engage with them further. You’ll also receive a notification in your toolbar if you have the notifications module enabled, and an email notifying you of the action.

Likes isn’t the only new feature in this release. We’ve also added a Readmill widget, a bulk spam feature to the contact form, improved our Pinterest share button integration, and a slew of bug fixes.

For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.

Jetpack 2.1.2

Tim Moore — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:15:33 +0000

Dear Jetpack Community,

Today we released Jetpack 2.1.2. This is mainly a bug fix release to get some outstanding issues squashed. We have resolved 34 bugs and added 2 enhancements, by my count. That’s pretty impressive, for a point release!

The highlights for this release are:

- the new TED shortcode. You can now copy and paste the shortcode offered on http://ted.com/talks and embed it directly in your WordPress+Jetpack-powered post or page.

- filters for Infinite Scroll. These filters allow themes and plugins to provide additional assets that should be loaded before a new set of posts is appended to the DOM.

You can read the full changelog here. Get in touch with us via our support form if you need any assistance.

Jetpack 2.1: Tiled Galleries

Christopher Finke — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:38:08 +0000

Posting photo galleries on your WordPress blog is a fun way to share your experiences with the world, but do plain old thumbnail grids truly express your artistic side? No, they don’t. That’s why we’ve added tiled galleries to Jetpack.

Tiled galleries allow you to create beautiful photo mosaics for your blog posts. Just activate the Tiled Gallery module (and optionally set the tiled layout as the default) to create gorgeous galleries in seconds. Your friends will envy you, and your enemies will fear you.

You might be thinking, “Are tiled galleries the only new feature in Jetpack 2.1? If they are, that’s certainly understandable, because it’s an amazing addition to an already feature-rich plugin.” No, tiled galleries are not the only new feature; we’ve also added a slideshow mode for galleries. Just choose Slideshow from the Type dropdown when creating your gallery, and you’ll instantly have a dynamic photo display. Slideshows and tiled galleries both look amazing on mobile devices, and they both integrate seamlessly with the Carousel module.

In addition to giving you new ways to show off your photographs, we’ve spent a lot of time fixing bugs, too. Photon, Infinite Scroll, Publicize, Sharing, and the Contact Form modules have all been given some TLC, and the Custom CSS editor has been updated. For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.

Update: Jetpack 2.1.1 has been released to fix a bug that was preventing updates from Jetpack 1.9.2 and older.

Jetpack 2.0.4 Released

Erick — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:22:58 +0000

Earlier today, we released Jetpack 2.0.3. Within an hour, we received reports that Jetpack couldn’t be activated after upgrading. We found a conflict between WordPress and Jetpack, which we’ve fixed in Jetpack 2.0.4. This latest update is available now in your WordPress dashboard or here at jetpack.me.