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Introduction
WordPress have just released the extremely powerful JetPack plug-in. This feature will add quite a few useful utilities that were only available as a complete package to blogs on the company’s free blogging platform, WordPress.com.
I advise everyone using WordPress to install it for the WordPress.com Stats package alone which shows you in a simplified way the number of visitors you have, where they go and where they come from. There is also an enhanced spelling and grammar checker for the WordPress Add and Edit Post section as well as a number of other useful utilities.
The package is designed so that WordPress can add other utilities to the package. The features mentioned are all free, but it looks like there will be the possibility of adding premium enhancements in the future.
Overview of Jetpack
- Gravatar Hovercards: Find out who’s commenting on your posts with enhanced information for Gravatars (includes full name, bio, other web profiles).
- WordPress.com Stats: Keep on top of your traffic with powerful and simple to understand statistics for your site.
- Twitter Widget: Keep your readers more up to date by syncing your tweets to your site via a simple widget.
- Shortcodes: Quickly add movies, images, and more to your posts and pages with a single line of code.
- Shortlinks: Automatically creates an easy to copy/paste mini-url for any post on your site.
: Use the famous markup language to quickly create beautiful mathematical expressions and equations.
- Sharedaddy: Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks.
- After the Deadline: Your writing will improve thanks to this artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker.
Installation is easy
In you plugin menu click Add Plugin search for jetpack and select WordPress jetpack.
Then follow the process. For many this will mean joining WordPress.com, but the process is simple, but does require you to confirm your application by email.
Conclusion
Install the package today and you can then start checking you visitor statistics within half an hour.