Add more widget options to your WordPress blog. If you’d like a different widget option for displaying your Twitter tweets or Facebook like box on your blog’s sidebar, then consider implementing Jetpack’s Extra Sidebar Widgets feature. According to Jetpack, this option allows you to “Easily add images, Twitter updates, and your site’s RSS links to [...]
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One way you can help build blogger community on your WordPress site is by incorporating the Gravatar Hovercards feature through Jetpack. This allows commentators, readers and you to find out a bit more about each other by showing a “pop-up business card of your users’ gravatar profiles in comments.” What’s a Hovercard? “Hovercards enhance plain [...]
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Along with the options mentioned in previous articles (click here for past posts on Jetpack), the Jetpack plugin also has features that help you out with writing posts. Unlike Microsoft Word, the visual editor in WordPress does not always do a stellar job at giving you spelling suggestions or grammar fixes. As a journalism major, [...]
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Blog posting by email is another feature that Jetpack makes available. With the Post by Email add-on, you can do exactly what it’s name says: post on your blog just by sending an email. “Any email client can be used to send the email, allowing you to publish quickly and easily from devices such as [...]
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After your blog or site has been up for awhile, you probably will receive an email alert, informing you of “new user registration”. The email will provide you with the new user’s username and email. It can be a bit confusing to get the first email like this–especially since most likely, your blog is available [...]
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