Thanks to their livestreamed sessions, I was able to attend the WordCamp Miami 2015 conference from home in Michigan.
WordCamp Miami is a three-day event, with workshops, sessions, and panels, for business people, bloggers, designers, developers, programmers—anyone interested in WordPress.
I started my day with the first session in the How To track: How to Manage All of Your WordPress Sites with Jetpack by Chase Livingston.
A Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Livingston discussed how you can write posts, update plugins, and manage site settings from one central location using Jetpack and WordPress.com.
Here are my notes from his talk.
What is Jetpack?
Jetpack is a free plugin, available on the WordPress repository, that makes managing your site (or multiple sites) easier. There are over 30 modules you can install within Jetpack. Photon, Related Posts, and Publicize are three well-known modules.
Jetpack’s power comes from its connection with WordPress.com.
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Jetpack Manage
Jetpack Manage allows you to manage all your sites (self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com) in one central location. You can manage plugins, auto updates, write posts, site settings, and more.
To enable Jetpack Manage, once you’ve logged in to your site, go to Jetpack > Settings > Manage > Activate.
WordPress.com Statistics
- Quickly view all your sites stats in one location from WordPress.com
- Similar to the Jetpack dashboard on individual sites
Manage Posts
- Write or edit posts within WordPress.com
- Anything you can do in your WordPress dashboard for an individual site for managing posts you can do in Jetpack Manage
Manage Plugins
- Add, remove or update plugins within Jetpack Manage
- View all the plugins for a site
- Easily update plugins. You’ll be notified about updates with an exclamation mark next to plugins with updates. Or set up auto update (via a toggle) to have updates automatically applied.
Client Management
- Powerful feature for managing client sites
- Auto update plugins, view stats from once location
- Connect Facebook, Twitter, etc. in one location
- Manage site settings for any site that is Jetpack-connect
Future Updates to Jetpack
You’ll soon be able to manage themes within Jetpack Manage. Also, the Customizer is expected to be added soon.
Check out the slides from Chase’s presentation on SpeakerDeck.
